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Michael Imperioli American Actor

Imperioli was born on March 26, 1966, in Mount Vernon, New York. His father was a bus driver and amateur actor, and his mother was a department store employee and amateur actress. His ancestors immigrated to New York City from Lazio and Sicily in Italy.

Michael Imperioli is an American actor, novelist, screenwriter, and musician. He is best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO crime drama The Sopranos (1999–2007), which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004.

Early in his career, he played the role of Spider in Martin Scorsese’s film Goodfellas (1990). He played several supporting roles in films such as Jungle Fever (1991), Bad Boys (1995), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Shark Tale (2004), The Lovely Bones (2009), and One Night in Miami (2020).

Imperioli co-wrote the screenplay for Summer of Sam (1999) with Spike Lee and wrote five episodes of The Sopranos. He made his feature film directorial debut with The Hungry Ghosts (2008), which he also wrote.

He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Dominic Di Grasso in the second season of the HBO Max anthology series The White Lotus (2022). On stage, he made his Broadway debut in a revival of Henrik Ibsen’s play An Enemy of the People (2024).