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Piper(Holly Marie Combs) |
Paige(Rose Mcgowan) |
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Leo (Brain Krause) |
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Holly |
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Combs was born in San Diego, Calif., and moved with her family to New York when she was 8 years old. Following in her mother’s footsteps as an aspiring actress, she began her career working in television commercials and print advertisements at age 10.An actress since her childhood, Holly Marie Combs appeared in several feature films before becoming a well-known prime time television presence in the 1990s. Born in San Diego, Combs moved to New York as a child with her actress mother. She soon embarked on her own acting career, appearing in TV commercials and studying at the Professional Children's School. Combs made her film debut playing Susan Sarandon's daughter in Sweet Hearts Dance (1988), moving on to small parts in Oliver Stone's second Vietnam saga Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and arthouse favorite Hal Hartley's Simple Men (1992). At 18, Combs established herself as an up-and-coming |
Holly Marie Combs |
TV actress, in the role familiar to audiences as teen-aged Kimberly Brock on the Emmy Award-winning series "PicketFences", producer/writer David E. Kelley's award-winning family drama series (1992-1996). After the series ended, Combs stayed with the medium, starring as Texas teen-killer Diane Zamora in the TV docudrama Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder (1997), and as the daughter of a murdered heiress in USA Network's Our Mother's Murder (1997)and a rape victim in "Sins of Silence".  Additional big-screen credits include "Chain of Desire" with Malcolm McDowell and LindaFiorentino, and "Simple Men".Combs returned to series TV as grounded middle sibling Piper on producer Aaron Spelling's Charmed in 1998. Co-starring TV vixens Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano, the tale of three beautiful, supernaturally endowed sisters appealed to the WB network's young female audience, and Charmed became a hit. |