1. Michael Imperioli was born on March 26,1966 and is an American actor, novelist, screenwriter and musician.
21 Facts About Michael Imperioli
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Michael Imperioli is best known for his roles as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama series The Sopranos, which earned him the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004, and as Dominic Di Grasso in the HBO comedy drama series The White Lotus in 2022.
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Michael Imperioli went on to play many supporting roles in films such as Jungle Fever, Bad Boys, The Basketball Diaries, Shark Tale, The Lovely Bones, and One Night in Miami.
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Michael Imperioli made his directorial feature film debut with The Hungry Ghosts, which he wrote.
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Michael Imperioli was born on March 26,1966, in Mount Vernon, New York.
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Michael Imperioli's father, Dominic Ralph Imperioli, was a bus driver and amateur actor, and his mother, Claire Linda, was a department store worker and amateur actress.
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Michael Imperioli's ancestors immigrated to New York City from Lazio, Sicily, and Oriolo, Cosenza, Calabria in Italy.
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At age 17, Michael Imperioli then moved to Manhattan's East Village, where he enrolled at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute to study acting.
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Michael Imperioli has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and five Emmy Awards for his work as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos.
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Michael Imperioli won one Emmy for the fifth season of The Sopranos in 2004.
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Michael Imperioli served as artistic director of Studio Dante, an Off-Broadway theater he formed with his wife.
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Michael Imperioli is an active member of The Jazz Foundation of America and co-hosted their May 2009 annual benefit concert, "A Great Night in Harlem", at the Apollo Theater, which celebrated the foundation's 20th anniversary.
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Michael Imperioli was a guest on the "San Giuseppe" episode of Mario Batali's Food Network television show Molto Mario.
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Michael Imperioli won the Tournament of Stars competition on the cooking show Chopped in 2014, sending $50,000 to his designated charity the Pureland Project, an organization which builds and maintains schools in rural Tibet.
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On March 13,2019, Michael Imperioli was cast in the lead role of Rick Sellitto in the NBC drama series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector.
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In September 2020, Michael Imperioli provided narration for The Whistleblower, a podcast about the 2007 NBA betting scandal.
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Michael Imperioli is the guitarist and vocalist for the band Zopa.
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Michael Imperioli portrayed Andrew Cuomo in the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora, Angelo Dundee in the Regina King directed One Night in Miami, and served as narrator in the 2021 Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.
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In January 2022, Michael Imperioli was cast in a lead role in the second season of the HBO dark comedy series The White Lotus.
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In 2023 it was announced that Michael Imperioli would make his Broadway debut in the 2024 Sam Gold-directed adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People, acting alongside Jeremy Strong and Victoria Pedretti at the Circle in the Square Theatre.
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Michael Imperioli acted in the Paul Schrader directed film Oh, Canada which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.