Milano began her profession at age eight after winning a task in an open audition for a national tour of Annie. She was one of the four picked out of an audition with over 1500 girls. She appeared in tv commercials and off-Broadway productions.
At age eleven, she won her first major function in the television present, Who's the Boss?, alongside Tony Danza, Judith Light, Danny Pintauro, and Katherine Helmond. She starred as Samantha Micelli, the daughter of Danza's character. After Milano received the function, she and her father relocated from Staten Island to Hollywood. The rest of the household followed a yr later, as a result of her mother was initially unwilling to surrender her residence life "for a present that wasn't a guarantee."Although born and raised in Brooklyn, Milano had bother getting this accent, because she labored to lose it to land extra roles within the theater, including in a stage adaption of Jane Eyre.
On stage, she starred in Tender Supply, a one-act play written by Wendy Wasserstein, All Evening Long by American playwright John O'Keefe, and the primary American musical adaptation of Jane Eyre. She returned to the theater in 1991, when she starred in and produced a Los Angeles production of Butterflies Are Free.
