CHARMED
Rose McGowan joined the cast of Charmed as Paige Matthews, a long-lost sister of the Charmed Ones.
One of six children, McGowan was a citizen of the world at an early age. Raised in Italy, she spent her childhood traveling throughout Europe. She returned to the United States to attend high school in Seattle, Washington.
A chance trip to Los Angeles resulted in her being cast in the film The Doom Generation. Her performance in Gregg Araki's dark and stylish road movie earned her a nomination for Best Newcomer at the 1996 Independent Spirit Awards. Also in 1996, Rose appeared in Wes Craven's smash hit Scream as Sydney's (Neve Campbell) doomed best friend who met with an unseemly death under a garage door.
Alyssa Milano has literally grown up on television and now enjoys a prolific career spanning film, television and theater. Milano currently stars as Phoebe Halliwell on Charmed.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Milano got her start with the national touring company of Annie. At 10, she was cast as Samantha Micelli in the long-running comedy Who's the Boss? starring opposite Tony Danza for eight years. The show ended in 1992, and she continued to hone her talents on both the big and small screens. Milano's next starring role was on the hit drama Melrose Place for two seasons.
Milano starred in the title role in the feature comedy Hugo Pool. Directed by Robert Downey, Sr. and co-starring Sean Penn, Malcolm McDowell and Richard Lewis, the film chronicled a day in the life of a Bel-Air pool cleaner (Milano). Her additional feature credits include the psychological thriller Fear with Reese Witherspoon and Mark Wahlberg, Double Dragon, Where the Day Takes You and Commando. Milano was most recently seen in the feature film Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star, with David Spade.
Holly Marie Combs, popular with audiences for her role as teen-aged Kimberly Brock on the Emmy Award-winning series Picket Fences, returned to series television in Charmed, starring as Piper Halliwell.
Combs was born in San Diego, Calif., and moved with her family to New York when she was 8 years old. Following her mother's footsteps as an aspiring actress, she began her career working in television commercials and print advertisements at age 10. She won her first movie role by 13, playing the daughter of Don Johnson and Susan Sarandon in the feature film Sweet Hearts Dance.
At 18, Combs got her big break starring for four seasons as the insightful daughter of parents played by Tom Skerritt and Kathy Baker in the critically acclaimed drama Picket Fences. In television movies, she has played an impressive range of starring roles, including the daughter of a murdered heiress in the fact-based Daughters, killer Diane Zamora in Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder and a rape victim in Sins of Silence. Most recently, Combs starred opposite Charisma Carpenter in the ABC Family Network comedy See Jane Date, in which she portrayed a smalltime actress who makes it big because of her affair with an A-list actor.
Actor Brian Krause has "charmed" his way into the otherworldly Halliwell household playing Leo, the resident guardian angel who married Piper (Holly Marie Combs).
Krause first rose to attention when he starred opposite Milla Jovovich in The Return to the Blue Lagoon. Shortly thereafter, he landed the lead role of Charles Brady in Stephen King's feline thriller Sleepwalkers. Additional features credits include Breaking Free with The WB's Jeremy London and Christine Taylor, Naked Souls with Pamela Anderson Lee, The Liars' Club with Wil Wheaton, and December costarring Balthazar Getty and Jason London. He also starred opposite Judd Nelson in the television thriller Return to the Cabin by the Lake.
In addition to his series regular work, Krause has made guest appearances on a number of shows including Walker, Texas Ranger and Tales From the Crypt, as well as a six-month stint as Matthew Cory on the daytime drama Another World.
Born and raised in Southern California, Krause enjoys playing golf, tennis and basketball when he's not on the beach or playing Scrabble with friends and family.
Dorian Gregory plays as Lieutenant Darryl Morris on The WB's Charmed.
Gregory's career has grown steadily from his beginnings in local theater, skit-comedy, television and commercials. He began his television career with recurring and guest starring roles in series such as Murder She Wrote, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Pacific Blue and Prey. He also appeared in a variety of comedy series such as Girlfriends, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Moesha, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, Living Single, Moesha and The WB's The Steve Harvey Show. Before joining the cast of Charmed, Gregory co-starred as the parapsychologist Diamont Teague on the syndicated nighttime drama Baywatch Nights.
Gregory's feature film work includes Deliver Us from Eva, starring opposite L.L. Cool J and Gabrielle Union, Just Write with Jeremy Piven, and The Apocalypse, with Sandra Bernhard. He also appeared in the Disney made-for-television movie, The Barefoot Executive. He can next be seen in the up-coming feature film Getting Played, starring opposite Vivica A. Fox, Carmen Electra and Bill Bellamy.
Nick Lachey joins the cast of Charmed in its seventh season as Leslie "Les" St. Claire, the ghostwriter hired to take over Phoebe's (Alyssa Milano) advice column while she is on sabbatical.
If there's one constant that has accompanied Lachey's rise from Cincinnati local to his current status as one of the hottest properties in the world of entertainment, it has been his all-encompassing love of music. At every key stage of his life - from studying sports medicine to multi-Platinum success with 98 Degrees, and through the recent years with his marriage to Jessica Simpson and their hit reality TV show Newlyweds - Lachey's desire to create music has always remained a driving factor in his life.
Lachey's first memory of music is of his mother playing hits from Stevie Wonder and The Beatles. By the time he was 6, Nick was singing in his local church choir. It was the first stage that set him on the road to enlisting at Cincinnati's School for the Creative and Performing Arts.