What’s in a name? When Alicia Augello Cook chose the stage name Alicia Keys, it reflected her passion for music that catapulted her into the role of world-class piano-playing multi-platinum pop star. A native New Yorker, Alicia was a child musical prodigy who was composing songs at 12 and was signed by Columbia Records at 15. Millions of albums sold and 15 Grammy awards later, she's still tickling the ivories on stage, but it’s her work as an actress that Mr. Skin's "pianist" is so fond of! Alicia actually made her screen debut in a 1985 episode of The Cosby Show when she was barely out of her pull-ups. Unsurprisingly, she took a long break from acting to focus on music before showing up in a 2001 episode of Charmed. Guest spots on American Dreams and The Backyardigans followed, and then in 2006 she made her cinematic and skinematic debut in the ensemble action-thriller Smokin’ Aces. In one scene, she shows her smokin' assets in a push-up bra through a sniper's scope. Thankfully the sniper didn't pop off--but Mr. Skin did at home! Although the vast majority of Alicia's recent acting credits are music videos (many of which are quite sexy), she found time to appear in the comedy-drama feature The Nanny Diaries (2007), the Queen Latifah-led drama The Secret Life of Bees (2008), two episodes of the show Empire, and the short film Let Me in (2016), which is Mr. Skin's request for Alicia. He'd love to tickle her ovaries.
