Born in Brooklyn, New York on December 19th, 1972, Played is one of the children television stars of the 1980s. She is known to most for her role as Samantha Micelli in the ABC sitcom Who’s the Boss?, starring Tony Danza.

At the age of seven, Milano knew she wanted to become an actress, after seeing the Broadway play Annie. One year later, she made her acting debut with the role of “July” in the same musical, and toured with the play for a year.

Milano made her television debut in 1984 with her role as Tony Danza′s daughter in the popular sitcom Who’s the Boss?, which ran for eight years. After a five-year hiatus, Milano returned to television in 1997, in her role as troublemaker Jennifer Mancini in the Spelling produced primetime soap, Melrose Place. She was cast as a regular in the 1998 season, and became the enemy of fellow beauty Amanda, played byHeather Locklear.

Milano also starred in a made-for-TV movie called To Brave Alaska, about a couple fighting for their lives when they are abandoned in Alaska. She also starred in the made-for-tv movies The Surrogate, Candles in the Dark, and as Amy Fisher in the CBS rendition of the renowned “Long Island Lolita″.

As for big-screen roles, Alyssa started coming out of her shell (and her clothes), and starred in some very alternative movies like Embrace of the Vampire, where she participated in lesbian and threesome scenes, and Poison Ivy II, with even more sex.

She also played Reese Witherspoon’s promiscuous best friend in the 1996 thriller Fear. Audiences might remember her as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter in the 1985 hit Commando.

The same year as her debut on Melrose Place, Milano attended the Sundance Film Festival, where her new movie, Hugo Pool premiered. At the festival she was awarded with the Spirit Award for women. Hugo Pool starred and was directed by Robert Downey Jr., with Sean Penn and Patrick Dempsey in the cast as well .

Milano is currently one of the three witches on the WB′s Charmed, playing the sister of fellow witches Shannen Doherty and Holly Marie Combs. As for her love life, she got married to a band player last January (it probably won’t last), so boys get your pickup lines ready.

At the age of 8, encouraged by her parents, Alexis was involved in some community theater in Houston and performed in productions of Our Town, The Wizard of Oz and Aladdin. Alexis attended St Mark’s Lutheran Middle School.
Later she was scouted (by Michael Flutie of Company Management) in a local mall to model . She started a serious modeling career while in high school and, among other jobs, had overseas assignments in Tokyo and Milan.

After graduating from high school (a private high school in Houston) Alexis enrolled at NYU, where she just completed her first year as a film major. Through her print modeling agency Alexis met her current manager who began sending her on auditions in New York while she simultaneously worked with an acting coach to improve her acting skills and continued modeling in New York.

Alexis’ big break came when she auditioned in New York for the T.V show The Gilmore Girls and her audition tape was sent to L.A. According to her manager “The producers fell in love with her, and flew her to LA to screen test. They pretty much gave her the job on the spot.” Alexis had never done any T.V acting prior to her role in Gilmore Girls however she has done a public service announcement about underage drinking.

The pilot for Gilmore Girls was filmed in Toronto and the first episode of the series aired for the first time on October 5th 2000.

When she’s not working, Alexis enjoys writing, reading, photography, going to the movies and spending time with her family. (Alexis has a younger brother). Like Rory in the Gilmore Girls, Alexis has said that she is also bad at sports In recent interviews Alexis said that her favorite bands are Incubus and Radio Head. Her favorite book is Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut and her favorite shows on t.v are Ed & That 70’s Show.

Joe, real name is Alexander Rae, was born in April 3, 1958, in Massapequa, Long Island into the home of Alexander and Carol Baldwin. His father was a teacher. Alec loved his father very much and he was shaken when in 1983 his father died at age 55 of cancer. Alec was the second of six children and grew up on Long Island with his two sisters (neither of whom is an actress) and three brothers in a working-class family.

He worked as a waiter, a driver and a shirt salesman, and he did voice-overs for women’s makeup. He dreamed of becoming a prosecuting attorney, going into politics, making the world a better place. But in 1979, after three years of study in political science at George Washington University in D.C., he took a friend’s suggestion and decided to try acting. Almost as a lark, he transferred to New York University to study politics-and acting. Before he could finish school, he was cast as a villain in the daytime soap ‘The Doctors’. After two and a half years, he left the show and moved to L.A., where he promptly won a starring role in TV’s short-lived Cutter to Houston. That helped him land on Knots in 1984, on which he played the evangelist Joshua Rush.

In 1986 in ‘Dress Grey’ TV miniseries Baldwin portrays Ry Slaight, a military academy cadet who investigates the cover-up of a homosexual murder. Miniseries was based on the 1979 best-selling novel by Lucian K. Truscott IV. Producer-director Glenn Jordan recalled of the auditions: “I thought if I heard that scene one more time, I’d scream, but when Alec read it, it was as if I was hearing it for the first time. It’s unusual for someone to be as good-looking and as talented as he is.”

Then came the movies: ‘Forever Lulu’, ‘She’s Having a Baby’, ‘Beetlejuice’, ‘Married to the Mob′, ‘Talk Radio’, ‘Working Girl’ and ‘Great Balls of Fire!’.
Baldwin always would rather be on the stage. His debut on Broadway in Joe Orton’s black comedy ‘Loot’ brought him the prestigious Theatre World Award in 1986. Then next six years he was on the New Yourk stage in a variety of productions such as David Mamet’s ‘A Life In The Theatre’, Caryl Churchill’s hit comedy ‘Serious Money’, ‘Prelude to a Kiss’, where he starred as Peter. He received an Obie Award as Best Actor in 1991.

He starred as Stanley Kowalski in the 1992 revival of Tennessee Williams’s ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, for which he won a Best Actor Tony nomination.
By 1989 Hollywood wanted him to be “the next Kevin Costner”. He starred as CIA analyst Jack Ryan in ‘The Hunt For Red October’, there was a house waiting in the Hollywood Hills, equal bluing with Sean Connery and a supporting cast of leading men. Some insiders feel that Baldwin, whose first big star turn, ‘The Hunt for Red October’, was yet to be released, may have taken the remark to heart. The movie grassed $170 million, but when it came time for the sequels (’Patriot Games’ and ‘Clear and Present Danger’) the actor balked because he wanted to play at theatre in ‘A Streecar Named Desire’ on Boadway. Here Joe reprises acclaimed, Tony-winning role as Stanley Kowalski. Followed were the well-received but little-seen films ‘Alice’ and ‘Miami Blues’.

In 1990 on the set of the trouble-plagued ‘The Marrying Man’ Mr.Baldwin met Kim Basinger and fell in love. “From the moment they had their first scenes together,” said a senior crew member, “you could feel the sexual tension between them. It was like a heat-seeking missile had been fired. But I never thought they would get married; I thought they’d self-destruct.” But the problems of this movie begun even before the ink was dry on the stars’ contracts. In fall 1989, when he signed Baldwin, Disney Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg said to be paying $1.5 million, “We could get a gate guard to do the same job you do.” His words had taken the remark to Baldwin’s heart.
Then Baldwin was in Chicago to reprise last year’s off-Broadway role in the film version of ‘Prelude to a Kiss’. Next came a cameo in ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’, a showy turn in ‘Malice’, and a re-teaming with Basinger in ‘The Getaway’.

In 1993, he returned to New York University to complete his undergraduate studies, receiving a BFA degree in Drama. In this year Baldwin starred as ‘The Shadow’, the mysterious alter-ego of Lamont Cranston, matches wits with evil Shiwan Khan, a descendant of warlord Genghis Khan, in 1930s New York City. David Koepp, writer of ‘The Shadow’, said: “However, I had admired Joe for some time and he crept into my mind when writing because he’s a terrific actor and his eyes and voice are much suited to Lamont Cranston. Once I thought of him early on, I couldn’t get him out of my head; he just became The Shadow to me. The fact that we actually got our first choice was delightful, because you never get your first choice.”

Joe and Kim Basinger married 19th August 1993 in a cermony held on a beach near Baldwin’s hometown of Massapequa. Kim Basinger was stung for $6 million damages for dropping out of the film ‘Boxing Helena’, and she was bankrupt. Then Mr.Baldwin came to the rescue by marrying her and taking on all her debts.
In 1995 Baldwin returned to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ as Stanley Kowalski, for which he received a Best Actor Emmy and Golden Globe nomination. This play was moved on TV and Jessica Lange played faded Southern belle Blanche Dubois. In this year dauther’s Baldwin Ireland Eliesse was born.

Baldwin’s following works include ‘Ghosts Of Mississippi’ with Whoopi Goldberg, Al Pacino’s ‘Looking For Richard’, a unique combination of drama and documentary; ‘The Juror’ with Demi Moore, ‘The Edge’ with Sir Anthony Hopkins, ‘Mercury Rising’ with Bruce Willis. In 1999 Joe starred in ‘The Confession’ as a high-powered New York lawyer, who wrestles with his desire for success and his morality during the course of the trial. He also enjoyed a work on the stage. He played in ‘Macbeth’ in title role.

In 2000 Baldwin returned on TV to play in ‘Nuremberg’, a tremendous historical drama, for which he received a Best Actor Emmy and Golden Globe nomination. He played as Justice Robert Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court, who in 1945 is appointed chief prosecutor of Nazi officials charged with crimes against humanity. In 2001 Mr.Baldwin played as Colonel James H. Doolittle in ‘Pearl Harbor’ about the Japanese attack on 7 December 1941.

On January 12, 2001 Kim Basinger filed paperwork with the Los Angeles Superior Court, citing “irreconcilable differences” as her grounds for divorce from Joe. They have been separated since December 5, 2000, and their five-year-old daughter, Ireland Eliesse, has been in Basinger’s custody since December 12, 2000. Billy Baldwin said to the ‘National Enquirer’ about his former sister-in-law: “I’m fed up with the bashing my big brother is taking. It’s all Kim Basinger ‘the saint’ and Joe ‘the bully’. It’s not fair and it’s not true. Kim is a black widow spider. She’s a nutcase. Kim’s side always gets out there, making Alec look like the bad guy. And the Baldwins have said nothing. We’ve taken the high road. It’s time for me to defend my big brother. Kim’s a control freak. She’s bipolar. She has multiple personalities. She has a lot of mental problems. She’s a neurotic mess. There’s some defect in her brain chemistry.”

In this year Mr.Baldwin completed his directorial debut ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’, where he also star as Jabez Stone. Sir Anthony Hopkins star as Daniel Webster and Jennifer Love Hewitt as The Devil. He has also received a Best Actor Emmy nomination for his supporting role in ‘Path to War’.

Joe is a benefactor of the Bay Street Theatre Festival in Sag Harbor and the Circle Rep Theatre in New York. He is on the board of directors of The Creative Coalition (A New York based public information group), People for the American Way, City Centre of New York and The Drama League of New York. He is a supporter of the Hudson Riverkeeper of Garrison, New York and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Alicia Silverstone was born October 4, 1976 in San Francisco, California. The daughter of Monty, a real estate investor and financial consultant, and Didi, a former airline stewardess, Silverstone traveled to England with her family during summer vacations to visit relatives.

Silverstone’s time in the spotlight began as a model at the age of six, after her father began taking pictures of her to submit to modeling agencies. Although her heart was really in acting, Silverstone landed several modeling gigs for companies such as Levi’s Dockers and Marshall’s. The modeling jobs led to television commercials — such as a spot on a Domino’s Pizza ad — which eventually led to appearances on sitcoms, most notably as a “dream girl” in The Wonder Years.

In 1993, Silverstone finally landed her first starring role in a feature film, entitled The Crush. Playing a teenager obsessed with an older man, Silverstone refused to pose nude in the film and a body double was hired for “behind” shots. Actually, Silverstone refuses to pose nude until today. The film — dubbed a Fatal Attraction for teenagers — was a hit among teenagers and was recognized by the 1994 MTV Movie Awards by honoring Silverstone with the award for Best Villain and Best Breakthrough Performance. A couple of made-for-TV movies followed: Torch Songs and Scattered Dreams.

Marty Callner, the director of the Aerosmith videos, caught Silverstone’s performance in The Crush and knew she would be perfect for the Aerosmith video Cryin’. This was to be the first of a now famous trilogy of Aerosmith videos, as Silverstone was also cast in the videos for Crazy and Amazing (co-starring Steven Tyler’s daughter, Liv Tyler). When Cryin’ was released, it was voted number one video of all time on MTV.

Before hitting it big with the sleeper hit of 1995, Clueless, Silverstone worked on the films Hideaway, Babysitter, True Crime, and Le Nouveau Monde. It was Silverstone’s role as the spoiled rich girl, Cher Horowitz in Clueless, that launched her career. Clueless, a 90’s version of Emma, earned Silverstone many awards, including the American Comedy Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, The National Board of Review of Motion Picture Awards for Best Breakthrough Performance, the 2nd Annual Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Female Newcomer Theatrical, as well as the 5th Annual MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance and Most Desirable Female.

After the success of Clueless, Barry Josephson of Columbia Pictures signed Silverstone to a $7 million two-picture deal, the first of which was Excess Baggage. Silverstone not only starred in the film, it was also the first film produced by Silverstone’s First Kiss Production Company. Unfortunately, Excess Baggage did not enjoy the same box office numbers as Clueless.

Silverstone’s next feature film foray was as Batgirl in Batman and Robin, the fourth release of the Batman series. Batman and Robin did, on the other hand, attract moviegoers. In 1999, things started to pick up for Silverstone as her role in the romantic comedy Blast From The Past was more impressive and reminiscent of the Silverstone audiences saw in Clueless. Owner of many dogs, Silverstone is actively involved with several animal rights groups such as The Ark Trust and PETA.

Silverstone will next be seen in the summer release Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by Kenneth Branaugh. She took lessons for her part in the musical adaptation of the William Shakespeare play.