His father is of Italian- Sicilian descent and his mother is of English and Scottish ancestry. Ventimiglia was born on J in Anaheim, California, the youngest child of Carol ( née Wilson) and Peter Ventimiglia, a Vietnam War veteran. He has also appeared in Pathology (2008), That's My Boy (2012), Kiss of the Damned (2013), Grace of Monaco (2014), Devil's Gate (2017), and The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019). In film, Ventimiglia made his breakthrough as Rocky Balboa's son in the sixth installment of the Rocky film series, Rocky Balboa (2006), going on to reprise the role in the eighth installment Creed II (2018). After appearing in main roles on the series Mob City (2013), Chosen (2013), and The Whispers (2015), Ventimiglia began starring as Jack Pearson on This Is Us (2016–2022), for which he has received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and twice received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series as a cast member.
Thereafter, he appeared as Chris Pierce on American Dreams (2004–2005) and Richard Thorne on The Bedford Diaries (2006) before starring as Peter Petrelli on Heroes (2006–2010), for which he received nominations for Teen Choice, Saturn and People's Choice Awards. Making his screen acting debut on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995, he portrayed the lead role on the short-lived series Opposite Sex in 2000 before landing his breakthrough role the following year as Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls (2001–2007). Milo lives in Los Angeles and enjoys skateboarding, snowboarding, wakeboarding and restoring vintage muscle cars.Milo Anthony Ventimiglia ( / v ɛ n t ɪ ˈ m iː l j ə/, Italian: born July 8, 1977) is an American actor. On the big screen, he can be seen playing the starring role of Denny Swift in the drama The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), alongside Amanda Seyfried. It has earned several Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, including three Emmy nominations for Milo in the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series category.
In 2016, Milo reprised his Gilmore Girls role in the four-part Netflix mini-series Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, and the same year was cast in a starring role as Jack Pearson in the drama series This Is Us opposite Mandy Moore, which went on to be a huge hit with audiences and critics alike. Some of his recent film credits include The Divide (2011) and the comedy That's My Boy (2012). He then spent the next few years starring as Peter Petrelli in the hit series Heroes, but returns to the big screen when on hiatus from the series. in the major motion picture Rocky Balboa (2006), starring and directed by Sylvester Stallone. He stayed with the show for several years before joining the cast of NBC's American Dreams in 2004, playing a 1960s war radical.įrom there he played Richard Thorne III in WB's short-lived The Bedford Diaries and Peter Petrelli, a male nurse who can fly, on NBC's acclaimed series Heroes, which debuted September 25, 2006.Īfter landing lead roles in movies such as Cursed (2005) and Stay Alive (2006), Milo landed the plum role of Rocky Jr.
Milo made his major motion picture debut as a soccer player in She's All That (1999), starring Freddie Prinze Jr., and had a recurring role on Fox TV's Opposite Sex in 2000, but it was a regular role as Jess Mariano on the WB's Gilmore Girls that brought Milo fame. Guest shots on shows such as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Brooklyn South and Kelly Kelly followed. His first professional acting role was a one-line guest appearance on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.
Born and raised in Anaheim, Milo Ventimiglia took a summer course at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and studied at the University of Southern California and UCLA.
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