Milo Ventimiglia has since starred in the drama series The Company You Keep.
21 Facts About Milo Ventimiglia
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In film, Milo Ventimiglia made his breakthrough as Rocky Balboa's son in the sixth installment of the Rocky film series, Rocky Balboa, going on to reprise the role in the eighth installment Creed II.
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Milo Ventimiglia has appeared in Pathology, That's My Boy, Kiss of the Damned, Grace of Monaco, Devil's Gate, and The Art of Racing in the Rain.
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Milo Ventimiglia was born on July 8,1977 in Anaheim, California, the youngest child of Carol and Peter Milo Ventimiglia, a Vietnam War veteran.
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Milo Ventimiglia's father is of Italian-Sicilian descent and his mother is of English and Scottish ancestry.
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At eighteen, Milo Ventimiglia studied at the American Conservatory Theater for their summer program, subsequently attending the University of California, Los Angeles as a theatre major.
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At eighteen, Milo Ventimiglia pursued an acting career, first starring as a gay teenager in Must Be the Music, a short film released as part of Strand Releasing's Boys Life 2.
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From 2001 to 2006, Milo Ventimiglia played brooding teen Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls; he was introduced in the second season as a leading cast member.
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Milo Ventimiglia signed on for a spin-off of Gilmore Girls called Windward Circle which was to be focused on the relationship between Jess and his estranged father, but the proposed series never made it to air.
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In between television work, Milo Ventimiglia had supporting roles in the horror films Cursed, directed by Wes Craven, and Stay Alive, as well as starring roles in the short film Intelligence and the full-length feature Dirty Deeds.
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Milo Ventimiglia starred as Peter Petrelli in the NBC series Heroes, a show about "ordinary" people discovering they have superpowers, and portrayed the character until the series' conclusion in 2010.
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Milo Ventimiglia produced and developed a mini web-series called It's a Mall World as part of a marketing campaign for American Eagle Outfitters in 2007.
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Milo Ventimiglia starred in the Xavier Gens apocalypse thriller film, The Divide.
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Milo Ventimiglia was the voice of Wolverine in the English dub of the Marvel Anime: Wolverine anime series and reprised his role in an episode of the Marvel Anime: Iron Man and an episode of Marvel Anime: Blade.
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Milo Ventimiglia did not return to voice Wolverine in Marvel Anime: X-Men, due to that series portraying an older Wolverine, instead Wolverine was voiced by Steven Blum.
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Milo Ventimiglia played Ned Stax, a former marine, in Frank Darabont's short-lived neo-noir crime drama Mob City for TNT.
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Milo Ventimiglia reprised his role as Jess Mariano in Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life in November 2016.
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In 2019, Milo Ventimiglia starred opposite Amanda Seyfried in the film adaptation of The Art of Racing in the Rain, based on the novel by Garth Stein.
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Milo Ventimiglia dated his Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere from December 2007 to February 2009.
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Milo Ventimiglia is a fan of The Clash as well as The Smiths and Morrissey.
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Milo Ventimiglia took a United Service Organization tour in July 2008, in support of American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.