Milo Ventimiglia is an American actor, director and producer.Milo currently stars on the critically acclaimed drama series “This is Us.”” He has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (2017 & 2018) and a Critic’s Choice Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series (2019) for his portrayal of the family patriarch, Jack Pearson. The show won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series and the People’s Choice Award for Best New Drama. In 2016 he reprised his role of Jess in the continuation of critically acclaimed television drama “”Gilmore Girls,’ which returned with four 90-minute episodes on Netflix. His other television credits include a memorable recurring role as ‘The Ogre’ in the FOX drama “”Gotham,”” the Frank Darabont helmed TNT drama “”Lost Angels,”” NBC’s “”Heroes,”” the critically acclaimed drama “”American Dreams”” and David. E. Kelley’s drama “”Boston Public.””Milo’s passion for the art of acting keeps him drawn to both studio and independent features. Milo is wrapped production on the Fox 2000 feature film “”The Art of Racing in the Rain,”” an adaptation of the international best-selling novel by Garth Stein. The book focuses on a family dog named Enzo who evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a professional race-car driver named Denny Swift, played by Milo. The film will be released in September 2018. Ventimiglia recently starred alongside Jennifer Lopez in the romantic comedy “”Second Act”” and had a memorable cameo in “”Creed II.”” He starred alongside Sylvester Stallone as his son in sixth installment of the Rocky series “”Rocky Balboa, in Adam Sandler’s “”That’s My Boy,”” and “”Grown Ups 2″” and alongside Nicole Kidman in “”Grace of Monaco.”” His other film credits include Xan Cassavetes’ “”Kiss of the Damned,”” a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds drama “”Heat”” alongside Jason Statham”” and the “”Killing Season”” with Robert DeNiro. Behind the camera Ventimiglia and his partner at Divide Pictures Russ Cundiff are involved in traditional content having sold TV shows to NBC, SyFy and FX, and producing the independent feature TELL which Ventimiglia co-starred along side of Jason Lee and Katee Sackoff as well as STATIC, which Ventimiglia co-starred with Sarah Shahi and Sara Paxton. Ventimiglia also produced the web-series Chosen, now in it’s second season for Sony’s Crackle as well as directed other digital projects for American Eagle Outfitters, Cadillac, GQ and Liberty Mutual. Divide Pictures’ latest web-series “”The P.E.T. Squad”” Files for CW’s Seed, is about a group of amateur ghost hunters who chase fame without having seen an actual apparition. The show launches summer 2013 from San Diego Comicon. Ventimiglia’s passion for comic books led him to produce two titles for Top Cow / Image Comics “”Rest”” and “”Berserker.””Ventimiglia spends his free time working with vets through the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America as well as taking USO tours to troops abroad.”
Milo Ventimiglia
Movies
Heroes
People all over the U.S start to realize they have special abilities, like telekinesis, healing abilities, flying powers, time travel, invisibility, and the ability to absorb other’s abilities. One man, known as Sylar, wants to gain all the power of these “heroes” so he can be the most powerful and…
Fun Facts
too. It's good because Jess carries a book all the time. If it's one I haven't read
Quotes
I'm tough on the outside and soft on the inside [...] I'm really a shy guy.
I'm a homebody, I'd rather be in the kitchen cooking than hanging out in a bar.
It's [high school] an interesting time in your life because you're trying to act older and mature but you really have no idea what you're doing. You're scared and it's okay to be scared. It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit.
Every job built my career in some way or made me grow as a person or I got to meet someone great. I had one line on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I met Will Smith and he took 20 minutes out of his day to talk to the kid with one line. To this day, I think that guy is amazing because of that.
On the WB holding deal: ... They said, 'Here's a lot of money and don't work for anybody else. We don't have anything for you, so you're going to be sitting for a while.' That was an interesting thing.
My favorite episode is 'Teach Me Tonight,' the one with the car accident [Jess trashed the car Dean had remodeled for Rory.] Alexis and I were both so tired and laughing and goofing off and having fun, so it was funny for me to watch.
The Godfather 1 and 2, Goodfellas, The Matrix -- those are movies I can sit down and watch over and over again,
I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events -- the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed -- I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.
Oh my God. Nothing against the [teen] magazines because they definitely have their purposes, but I don't want to answer questions like "Do you have a girlfriend?"" and ""What is your favorite color?"" Answering more adult questions is more intriguing and that's the vibe I'd like to give off.
I'm just a person and I'm not larger than life.
I like to read