Michael Imperioli

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James Michael Imperioli (born March 26, 1966 in Mount Vernon , New York ) is an American actor and screenwriter of Italian descent.

Life

Imperioli began his acting career in 1989 in The Knallharte Prinzipal . His third film was Martin Scorsese's Good Fellas - Three Decades in the Mafia - here he was given a supporting role as Spider . Later in the 1990s he worked in a total of five films by director Spike Lee, as well as in several Hollywood productions. He also wrote his first screenplay for Spike Lee's film Summer of Sam .

In 1999 he had his breakthrough as a Mafioso Christopher Moltisanti in the hit HBO - television series The Sopranos . Imperioli was given a leading role and starred in 80 of the 86 episodes between 1999 and 2007. For the role he won an Emmy Award and was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Award . He also wrote the script for five episodes of the series. In 2005 he was part of the cast of the television series Law & Order .

Throughout his film and television career, he remained loyal to the New York theater , both as an actor and as a writer. In 2004 he and his wife Victoria opened their own small theater in New York City - the "Studio Dante". In 2008 and 2009 he starred in the short-lived TV series Life on Mars , an American remake of the British series of the same name on ABC .

From 2010 to 2011 he played the lead role in the police drama Detroit 1-8-7 .

additional

In Goodfellas , Joe Pesci as Mafioso shoots Thommy Michael Imperioli in the foot as a non-Mafia member. There is an ironic allusion to this scene in the Sopranos : This time the gangster Christopher shoots a civilian in the foot.

Imperioli has been married to Victoria Chlebowski since 1995, lives in New York City in the Tribeca neighborhood and has two children.

The Imperioli are students of the Tibetan Buddhism teacher Garchen Rinpoche. In his spare time Imperioli practiced Tae Kwon Do .

Filmography (selection)

Scripts

Imperioli wrote the scripts for the episodes of Sopranos : From Where to Eternity (2000), Tony in der Schlangengrube (The Telltale Moozadell) (2001), Christopher (2002), Gewissensbisse ( engl .: Everybody Hurts) (2002) and Marco Polo (2004).

Film awards

  • The Sopranos
    • Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series (Drama) (2004)
    • Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by an Acting Company in a Television Series (Drama) (1999, 2007)
    • Nomination - Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series (2002, 2004)
    • Nomination - Golden Nymph Award for Best Actor (2007)
    • Nomination - Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series (Drama) (2001, 2003, 2006–2007)
    • Nomination - PRISM Award for Best Actor in a Television Series (Drama) (2003)
    • Nomination- Screen Actors Guild Award for best performance by an actor ensemble in a television series (drama) (2000–2002, 2004, 2006)
  • Hungry Ghosts (2009)
    • Nomination- International Film Festival Rotterdam - Tiger Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max Abelson: Imperiolis Buy Entire Canal Street Walk-Up for $ 2.4 M. . In: The New York Observer , April 19, 2007. 
  2. ↑ Shambahala Sun: Michael Imperioli, star of the new film The M Word, talks Buddhism and meditation. In: http://www.lionsroar.com/ . April 30, 2014, archived from the original on February 17, 2015 ; accessed on January 31, 2015 .
  3. ^ Verena Dobnik: Imperioli: Tae Kwon Do Changed His Life. In: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ . January 28, 2007, accessed January 31, 2015 .


personal data
SURNAME Imperioli, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imperioli, James Michael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor of Italian descent
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Mount Vernon , New York