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Wed Dec 19, 2018, 07:37 PM Dec 2018

Happy Birthday Alyssa Milano.

Alyssa Jayne Milano was born December 19, 1972 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, the daughter of fashion designer and talent manager Lin Milano and film-music editor Thomas M. Milano.

Milano began her carer at age 7 when her babysitter, without notifying her parents, took her to an audition for one of the four principal parts in a national touring company of "Annie"
Milano was one of four selected from more than 1,500 girls.

In 2015, Milano endorsed Bernie Sanders for President of the United States.
In 2016, after the Democratic Party presidential primaries, she expressed her support for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Since 2004, Milano has canvassed for national, state and local candidates.
In 2017, she drove people to the polls for the December 12 U.S. Senate Special Election in Alabama to vote for Democratic candidate Doug Jones.

In 2018, Milano was announced as a co-chair of the Health Care Voter campaign.
She released an op-ed to Time magazine on why health care will decide her vote in 2018.
Milano also helped raise money for Richard Dien Winfield, a Democrat in Georgia's 2018 10th Congressional District race.
She spoke at the 2018 "Women's March"

In 2009, Milano married Creative Artist's Agency agent David Bugliari.
They have a son and a daughter.

Milano moved from a West Hollywood condo to a house with acreage for nine horses, eight chickens, two rabbits, and five dogs, in Bell Canyon, California

An animal activist and animal lover, in 2014, Milano, with the South Korean Rescue Group, CARE, and The Fuzzy Pet Foundation in Santa Monica, helped rescue a South Korean jindo mix dog, found covered in mange, chained, and raised for dog-meat.

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Happy Birthday Alyssa Milano. (Original Post) red dog 1 Dec 2018 OP
K&R Gothmog Dec 2018 #1
I had such a crush on her when I was a kid. tymorial Dec 2018 #2
First time I ever saw her was on "My Name is Earl" red dog 1 Dec 2018 #3
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