PERSON: Alyssa Milano

Actress

Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972) is an American actress, producer and former singer. She is best known for her roles in Who’s the Boss?, Melrose Place, Charmed and Mistresses.

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In the late 1980s, Milano reached out to Ryan White, a schoolboy ostracized for having AIDS, and a fan of Milano’s. She attended a big party for him, where she sat with him for six hours, making friendship bracelets with him. They appeared together on The Phil Donahue Show, where Milano kissed White, in order to show that she could not catch the disease through casual contact with him.

In October 2004, Milano participated in UNICEF’s “Trick or Treat” campaign as the national spokesperson. She raised approximately $50,000 for South African women and children with AIDS by selling her own and schools’ photo work.

In support of PETA, she appeared in a 2007 advertisement for them, advocating vegetarianism, in a dress made entirely of vegetables.

In June 2007, The Sabin Vaccine Institute, named Milano a Founding Ambassador for the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, an alliance formed to advocate and mobilize resources in the fight to control neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), to which Milano donated $250,000. She is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States of America, Her field work for the organization has included a 2004 trip to Angola to speak with HIV-positive women and people disfigured by land mines during the country’s civil war; a trip to India to meet displaced mothers living in squalor following the 2004 tsunami; and a 2010 trip to the settlement of Kolonia in western Kosovo to witness impoverished living conditions. Milano wrote on her blog that the latter trip was “the hardest experience I’ve had on a field visit,” and described a waste dump close to the settlement where children spent time looking for metal to sell or scavenging for food.

For her 37th birthday, which occurred on December 19, 2009, Milano ran an online fundraising campaign for Charity:Water. Her original goal was to raise $25,000, but a donation from her husband put her over the $75,000 mark on December 18. The fundraiser ran until December 26. In September 2013, Milano released a viral tape on Funny or Die that drew attention to the Syrian civil war.

In 2016, she expressed her support for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on her Twitter account. She is very active in the campaign of Jon Ossoff and is involved in get-out-the-vote efforts for Rob Quist.

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