Michael Imperioli

He went on to play many supporting roles in films such as Jungle Fever (1991), Bad Boys (1995), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Shark Tale (2004), The Lovely Bones (2009), and most recently, One Night in Miami (2020) and Song Sung Blue (2025). He also co-wrote the screenplay for Summer of Sam (1999) with Spike Lee, and wrote five episodes of The Sopranos. He made his directorial feature film debut with The Hungry Ghosts (2008), which he also wrote. For his role as Dominic Di Grasso in the second season of The White Lotus (2022), Imperioli was nominated again for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. On stage, he made his Broadway debut in the revival of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People (2024). He has played crime boss Dutch since July 2025 in the Fox crime drama Memory of a Killer.

Michael Imperioli studied at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Brewster High School and Sacred Heart High School. The recorded working language is English. Residence is recorded at Santa Barbara and Upper West Side. Distinctions recorded are Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.

• Name — Michael Imperioli • Born — 26 March 1966 • Birthplace — Mount Vernon, New York, U.S. • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1985–present • Children — 3

Imperioli was born on March 26, 1966, in Mount Vernon, New York. His father, Dominic Ralph Imperioli, was a bus driver and amateur actor, and his mother, Claire Linda (née Luzzi), was a department store worker and amateur actress. His ancestors immigrated to New York City from Lazio, Sicily, and Oriolo, Cosenza, Calabria in Italy. At age 11, Imperioli and his family moved to Brewster, New York, and in high school he began watching Broadway plays. After graduating from Brewster High School in 1983, Imperioli planned on studying pre-med at the State University of New York at Albany. The night before he was set to begin college, he confided in his parents that he sought to be an actor. At age 17, Imperioli then moved to Manhattan's East Village, where he enrolled at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute to study acting. While there, he met John Ventimiglia, who later portrayed Artie Bucco on The Sopranos, and the two became roommates. In the early 1990s, Imperioli performed as lead vocalist of the New Jersey-based jangle pop band Wild Carnation, departing to focus on his acting career prior to the release of their debut recordings in 1993.

• Illustration — Imperioli in 2005 Imperioli has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and five Emmy Awards for his work as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos. He won one Emmy for the fifth season of The Sopranos in 2004. In addition to his role on The Sopranos, Imperioli has appeared in a number of films, including Goodfellas, Jungle Fever, Bad Boys, Malcolm X, The Basketball Diaries, Clockers, Dead Presidents, Girl 6, My Baby's Daddy, Lean on Me, I Shot Andy Warhol, Last Man Standing, Shark Tale, High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story, and Summer of Sam, which he also co-wrote and co-produced. He also wrote five episodes for The Sopranos. Imperioli served as artistic director of Studio Dante, an Off-Broadway theater he formed with his wife. He is an active member of The Jazz Foundation of America and co-hosted their May 2009 annual benefit concert, "A Great Night in Harlem", at the Apollo Theater, which celebrated the foundation's 20th anniversary. He was a guest on the "San Giuseppe" episode of Mario Batali's Food Network television show Molto Mario. In 2010, Imperioli signed on to play the lead in the ABC television show Detroit 1-8-7. Working with the writer Gabriele Tinti, he wrote the text "Pride" for Tinti's book New York Shots, and participated in a reading of The Way of the Cross at the Queens Museum of Art in 2011. Imperioli won the Tournament of Stars competition on the cooking show Chopped in 2014, sending $50,000 to his designated charity the Pureland Project, an organization which builds and maintains schools in rural Tibet. In 2016, he guest starred as the angel Uriel on the Fox show Lucifer. On March 13, 2019, Imperioli was cast in the lead role of Rick Sellitto in the NBC drama series Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector. Imperioli co-hosts a podcast with Steve Schirripa titled Talking Sopranos, which began on April 6, 2020. The two provide inside info as they follow The Sopranos series episode by episode. By September 2020, the podcast had reached over five million downloads. On September 17, 2020, Imperioli and Schirripa signed a deal with HarperCollins book imprint William Morrow and Company to write an oral history of the show; the book titled Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos was released on November 2, 2021. In July 2020, he hosted a show on NTS Radio called 632 ELYSIAN FIELDS, which was inspired by A Streetcar Named Desire. In September 2020, Imperioli provided narration for The Whistleblower, a podcast about the 2007 NBA betting scandal. Imperioli is the guitarist and vocalist for the band Zopa. In 2020, Zopa released their debut album entitled La Dolce Vita. In 2021, Zopa headlined the Freakout Festival in Seattle. Imperioli portrayed Andrew Cuomo in the Showtime limited series Escape at Dannemora (2018), Angelo Dundee in the Regina King directed One Night in Miami (2020), and served as narrator in the 2021 Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark. In January 2022, Imperioli was cast in a lead role in the second season of the HBO dark comedy series The White Lotus. For his performance he received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. In 2023 it was announced that Imperioli would make his Broadway debut in the 2024 Sam Gold-directed adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People, acting alongside Jeremy Strong and Victoria Pedretti at the Circle in the Square Theatre. He acted in the Paul Schrader directed film Oh, Canada which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Since July 2025 he has played Dutch, the friend and boss of hitman Angelo Doyle in Fox's crime drama Memory of a Killer.

Imperioli married Victoria Chlebowski in 1996. The couple have three children: two sons and Victoria's daughter from a previous relationship whom Michael adopted and raised as his own. They now primarily live in New York City with a home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and had another home previously in Santa Barbara, California. He and his family are avid practitioners of Taekwondo. In 2008, Imperioli became a Buddhist. Imperioli is a fan of the animated sitcom American Dad!. He has called it his favorite TV show in several interviews and has appeared in an episode voicing the character Roger's father Fred.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1994 — NYPD Blue — Duane Rollins — Episode: "Dead and Gone" • 1996 — Law & Order — Johnny Stivers — Episode: "Atonement" • 1997 — New York Undercover — Miles Gordon — Episode: "The Last Hurrah" • Firehouse — Lt. O'Connell — Television film • 1998 — Witness to the Mob — Louie Milito — Television film • 1999–2007 — The Sopranos — Christopher Moltisanti — Main cast; also wrote five episodes • 2000 — Disappearing Acts — Vinney — Television film • Hamlet — Rosencrantz — Television film • 2001 — I Love the '90s — Himself — Episode: "I Love 1990" • 2002 — VH1 Big Awards — Himself/Host — Main host • 2004 — The Five People You Meet in Heaven — Captain — Television film • 2005–2006 — Law & Order — Detective Nick Falco — Recurring cast (season 15), guest (season 16) • 2006 — The Simpsons — Dante Jr. (voice) — Episode: "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" • 2007 — For One More Day — Charley "Chick" Benetto — Television film • 2008–2009 — Life on Mars — Detective Ray Carling — Main cast • 2010 — Celebrity Ghost Stories — Himself — Episode #2.1 • Mercy — Harold Pindus — Episode: "We're All Adults" • The Secret Life of the American Teenager — Dr. Ottavi — Episode: "The Sound of Silence" • 2010–2011 — Detroit 1-8-7 — Detective Louis "Lou" Fitch — Main cast • 2012 — Girls — Powell Goldman — Episode: "Leave Me Alone" • Necessary Roughness — Jimmy Folkes — Episode: "All the King's Horses" • 2013 — The Office — Sensei Billy — Episode: "Livin' the Dream" • Nicky Deuce — The Doctor — Television film • 2014 — Rake — Alberto Rinaldi — Episode: "Bigamist" • Californication — Rick Rath — Recurring cast (season 7) • Chopped — Himself — 2 episodes • 2015–2016 — Mad Dogs — Lex — Main cast • 2015–2018 — Hawaii Five-0 — Odell Martin — Recurring cast (season 5), guest (season 6 & 8) • 2016–2017 — Lucifer — Uriel — Recurring cast (season 2) • 2016–2021 — Blue Bloods — Robert Lewis — Recurring cast (season 7), guest (season 11) • 2017 — Dice — Himself — Episode: "Fingerless" • 2018 — Alex, Inc. — Eddie — Main cast • Escape at Dannemora — Andrew Cuomo — Episode: "Part 7" • 2019 — Watchmen — Video Testimonial Man — Episode: "Little Fear of Lightning" • 2019–2020 — Project Blue Book — Edward Rizzuto — Recurring cast (season 1), guest (season 2) • 2020 — Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector — Rick Sellitto — Main cast • 2022 — The White Lotus — Dominic Di Grasso — Main cast (season 2) • 2022–2023 — This Fool — Minister Leonard Payne — Recurring cast (season 1-2) • 2024 — American Dad! — Fred (voice) — Episode: "Piece by Piece" • Wise Guy: David Chase and the Sopranos — Himself — Episode: "Part 1 & 2" • Kite Man: Hell Yeah! — JoeMoe Dubelz (voice) — Main role • American Horror Stories — Daniel Hausman-Burger — Episode: "Backrooms" • 2025 — Krapopolis — Uncle Vince (voice) — Episode: "One Eye One Heart She's Stupe" • The Dark Money Game — Neil Clark (voice) — Episode: "Ohio Confidential" • 2026 — Memory of a Killer — Dutch — Main role

• Year — Title — Role — Venue — Ref. • 2007 — Chicken — Floyd — Studio Dante • 2024 — An Enemy of the People — Peter Stockmann — Circle in the Square Theatre, Broadway

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2020–2021, 2025 — Talking Sopranos — Self (co-host) — 92 episodes; Video podcast • 2022 — Marvel's Wastelanders: Black Widow — Stanley (voice) — 10 episodes; Radio drama and podcast