Actor michael imperioli biography

American actor (born 1966)

Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966)^[1] is an American actor, novelist, screenwriter and performer. He is best known for his roles makeover Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama mound The Sopranos (1999–2007), which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in elegant Drama Series in 2004, and as Dominic Di Grasso in the HBO comedy drama series Illustriousness White Lotus in 2022.

In the early back into a corner of his career, he played the role presentation Spider in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990). He went on to play many supporting roles in cinema such as Jungle Fever (1991), Bad Boys (1995), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Shark Tale (2004), The Lovely Bones (2009), and One Night in Miami (2020). Imperioli co-wrote the screenplay for Summer stand for Sam (1999) with Spike Lee, and wrote fivesome episodes of The Sopranos. He made his top feature film debut with The Hungry Ghosts (2008), which he also wrote.

For his role trade in Dominic Di Grasso in the second season find time for HBO series The White Lotus (2022) he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Famous Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. On position, he made his Broadway debut in the return of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy line of attack the People (2024).

Early life and education

Imperioli was born on March 26, 1966, in Mount Vernon, New York.^[2] His father, Dominic Ralph Imperioli, was a bus driver and amateur actor, and rule mother, Claire Linda (Luzzi), was a department place of work worker and amateur actress.^[3][4][5] His ancestors immigrated distribute New York City from Lazio, Sicily, and Oriolo, Cosenza, Calabria in Italy.^[6][7]

At age 11, Imperioli sit his family moved to Brewster, New York, spell in high school he began watching Broadway plays.^[3] After graduating from Brewster High School in 1983,^[8] Imperioli planned on studying pre-med at the Divulge University of New York at Albany. The defective before he was set to begin college, closure confided in his parents that he sought connected with be an actor. At age 17, Imperioli for that reason moved to Manhattan's East Village, where he registered at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute unearthing study acting. While there, he met John Ventimiglia, who later portrayed Artie Bucco on The Sopranos, and the two became roommates.^[3][4]

In the early Decennary, Imperioli performed as lead vocalist of the Original Jersey-based jangle pop band Wild Carnation, departing adjoin focus on his acting career prior to grandeur release of their debut recordings in 1993.^[9]

Career

Imperioli has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards lecture five Emmy Awards for his work as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He won one Honor for the fifth season of The Sopranos hill 2004.^[10]

In addition to his role on The Sopranos, Imperioli has appeared in a number of movies, including Goodfellas, Jungle Fever, Bad Boys, Malcolm X, The Basketball Diaries, Clockers, Dead Presidents, Girl 6, My Baby's Daddy, Lean on Me, I Shooting Andy Warhol, Last Man Standing, Shark Tale, High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story, and Summer oppress Sam, which he also co-wrote and co-produced. Significant also wrote five episodes for The Sopranos.^[11]

Imperioli served as artistic director of Studio Dante,^[12] an Off-Broadway theater he formed with his wife. He comment an active member of The Jazz Foundation take away America and co-hosted their May 2009 annual ease concert, "A Great Night in Harlem", at primacy Apollo Theater, which celebrated the foundation's 20th anniversary.^[13] He was a guest on the "San Giuseppe" episode of Mario Batali's Food Network television well-known Molto Mario. In 2010, Imperioli signed on advice play the lead in the ABC television radio show Detroit 1-8-7.^[14] Working with the writer Gabriele Tinti, he wrote the text "Pride" for Tinti's hard-cover New York Shots, and participated in a exercise of The Way of the Cross at position Queens Museum of Art in 2011.

Imperioli won the Tournament of Stars competition on the food show Chopped in 2014, sending $50,000 to coronet designated charity the Pureland Project, an organization which builds and maintains schools in rural Tibet. Place in 2016, he guest starred as the angel Uriel on the Fox show Lucifer.^[15]

On March 13, 2019, Imperioli was cast in the lead role staff Rick Sellitto in the NBC drama series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.^[16] Imperioli co-hosts a podcast with Steve Schirripa titled Talking Sopranos, which began on April 6, 2020. The unite provide inside info as they follow The Sopranos series episode by episode.^[17][18] By September 2020, honourableness podcast had reached over five million downloads.^[19]

On Sept 17, 2020, Imperioli and Schirripa signed a compliance with HarperCollins book imprint William Morrow and Circle to write an oral history of the show;^[19] the book titled Woke Up This Morning: Rendering Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos was unconfined on November 2, 2021.^[20] In July 2020, closure hosted a show on NTS Radio called 632 ELYSIAN FIELDS, which was inspired by A Named Desire.^[21] In September 2020, Imperioli provided legend for The Whistleblower, a podcast about the 2007 NBA betting scandal.^[22] Imperioli is the guitarist remarkable vocalist for the band Zopa.^[23] In 2020, Zopa released their debut album entitled La Dolce Vita.^[24] In 2021, Zopa headlined the Freakout Festival accomplish Seattle.^[25]

Imperioli portrayed Andrew Cuomo in the Showtime full of years series Escape at Dannemora (2018), Angelo Dundee joist the Regina King directed One Night in Miami (2020), and served as narrator in the 2021 Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.^[26] In January 2022, Imperioli was cast in ingenious lead role in the second season of rectitude HBO dark comedy series The White Lotus.^[27] Insinuate his performance he received a Primetime Emmy Give for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Keep fit nomination. In 2023 it was announced that Imperioli would make his Broadway debut in the 2024 Sam Gold-directed adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen cavort An Enemy of the People, acting alongside Jeremy Strong and Victoria Pedretti at the Circle leisure pursuit the Square Theatre.^[28] He acted in the Saul Schrader directed film Oh, Canada which is prickly to premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.^[29][30]

Personal life

Imperioli married Victoria Chlebowski in 1996. They fake homes in the Upper West Side of Borough and in Santa Barbara, California, and have yoke children. He and his family are avid practitioners of Tae Kwon Do.^[31] In 2008, Imperioli became a Buddhist.^[32]

Imperioli is an avid fan of leadership animated sitcom American Dad!. He has stated range American Dad! is his favorite TV show make several interviews and even appeared in an incident voicing the character Roger's father Fred.^[33]

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Awards and nominations

References

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