Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioliis an Italian-American actor, writer and director best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He also appeared in the TV drama series Law & Order as NYPD Detective Nick Falco. Imperioli spent the 2008-2009 television season as Detective Ray Carling in the US version of Life on Mars. He was starring as Detective Louis Fitch in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 March 1966
CityMount Vernon, NY
CountryUnited States of America
house progressive new plays in a setting inspired by the grand architecture and design of traditional 19th Century venues.
Put a gangster and a junkie together and you get a junkie gangster, and you get nominated, there you go.
'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
I knew it was going to be good. But you don't know that everyone else is going to think so, or that so many people would think so.
But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
Geographically, economically and culturally, they grew up kind of similar.
Tony literally makes you an offer you can't refuse. He's always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you're there. Period.
Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.
My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.
John Ventimiglia, who was on 'The Sopranos,' was in my first acting class and we have been friends since that time. Alec Baldwin was in my class back then, Sean Young and Andrew McCarthy.
In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.
I played guitar in a band from when I was about 20 for three years. Then I sang a little. Then I started getting really busy as an actor and forgot about it.
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.
Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.