Milo Ventimiglia: biography and filmography

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Milo Ventimiglia is an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter. He is best known for starring in Gilmore Girls, Heroes, and This Is Us. He also played supporting roles in many feature films, in particular in the sports drama "Rocky Balboa", the action movie "Mad Card" and the comedy "Papa Dosvidos".

Childhood and youth

Milo Ventimiglia was born July 8, 1977 in Anaheim, California. Has Italian and Scottish roots. Born with a defect in the facial nerve, which made the left half of his face inactive, a similar injury has the famous actor and director Sylvester Stallone.

While studying at school, in addition to the theater, he was engaged in wrestling and was president of the school government. After graduating from high school, he entered the University of California, where he studied theater.

Career start

At the age of eighteen, Milo Ventimiglia landed the lead role in a short filmdirected by Nicholas Perry, which was included in the anthology film "Boys' Lives 2". The picture told about the life of youth of non-traditional sexual orientation in modern America.

In subsequent years, the young actor received small roles in the successful series "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air", "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Law &Order". In 2000, Milo landed a leading role in the teen series The Opposite Sex, which was canceled after eight episodes.

Big Breakthrough

In 2004, Milo Ventimiglia joined the main cast of Gilmore Girls for the second season. He got the role of Jess Mariano, the boyfriend of the main character Rory Gilmore. The channel planned to launch a spin-off series that would focus on Jess and his father, but the series never went into production.

After that, Milo left the project, appearing as a guest star in several episodes of subsequent seasons. He continued to actively work on other television projects as a guest star. In 2006, the mini-series "The Bedford Diaries" was released with an actor in the title role.

Work in film and television

In 2006, Milo Ventimiglia appeared in the sixth film of the Rocky series as the son of the protagonist, played by Sylvester Stallone. The film was well received by critics and performed well at the box office. In the movie "Creed", which was released nine years later, the character Milono longer appeared.

In the same year, the actor received one of the main roles in the fantasy series "Heroes". The project from the very beginning became a hit and showed excellent ratings, but lost viewers every season and was closed after the fourth season. In 2008, Milo played one of the main roles in the horror film Pathology. A year later, he appeared in the action movie Gamer.

In subsequent years, the actor was pursued by failure, among the films with Milo Ventimiglia of this period, the comedy "Papa Dosvidos", the thriller "Season of the Killers", the biographical drama "Princess of Monaco" and the action movie "Crazy Card" stand out. However, they all performed extremely mediocre at the box office and received negative reviews from critics.

On television, the actor also could not find a new successful project. Frank Darabont's crime drama Gangster City was canceled after its first season, and the web series The Chosen One was also not renewed for a second season. After that, Milo appeared in several episodes of Gotham and got the lead role in the sci-fi project Whisper, which was again canceled by the channel after the first season.

In 2016, Milo Ventimiglia guest-starred on the comedy series The League and returned as Jess Marino in the mini-series Gilmore Girls: Seasons.

New success

A new wave of success came to the actor along with the series "Thiswe". The project of screenwriter and director Dan Fogelman, unexpectedly for many, became one of the main series of the year. For the first season of the drama, Milo Ventimiglia was nominated for the first Emmy Award, but lost to his project colleague Sterling K. Brown. For work on the second season series, both actors were again nominated for the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Together with the new popularity of the actor, rumors began to circulate on the Web that he would get a role in one of the superhero blockbusters based on DC comics. Initially, there was an online campaign to cast Milo as Nightwing, the superhero from the Batman comics, and there are many photos of Milo Ventimiglia as the superhero on the web. However, recently, when it became known that Ben Affleck may not return to the image of the Dark Knight, the actor's name began to appear in the lists of contenders for the role of Bruce Wayne.

At the moment, in addition to filming the new season of "This Is Us", the actor is busy producing several feature films at once. He also acts as a producer, director and screenwriter and has several web series and short films to his credit.

Private life

Milo Ventimiglia has been a vegetarian since childhood, according to him, he and his two sisters grew up as lacto-vegans, and with age he did not abandon this practice. Was voted the Sexiest Vegetarian in the World in 2009. Also, the actor does not drink alcohol and does not smoke cigarettes. He is a fan of the punk rock band TheClash. In 2018, he took part in a tour of Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan in order to raise the morale of American troops.

Milo Ventimiglia's personal life has been actively discussed in the media from the very beginning of his career. He dated Gilmore Girls co-star Alexis Bledel from 2002 to 2006. Later, he began to meet with a colleague already on the series "Heroes". Milo Ventimiglia and Hayden Panettiere were a couple from 2007 to 2009.