Milo Ventimiglia

Milo Anthony Ventimiglia (born July 8, 1977) is an American television amateur best accepted for his role of Peter Petrelli on the TV alternation Heroes. Ventimiglia was aboriginal noticed by admirers during his three year assignment on the WB alternation Gilmore Girls, arena Rory Gilmore's adulation absorption Jess Mariano from 2001 until his final bedfellow actualization in 2006.

After his own WB alternation The Bedford Diaries, a alternating role as Meg Pryor's adulation absorption on NBC's American Dreams, and arena Rocky Balboa's son in the sixth and final chapter of the Rocky series, Rocky Balboa, Ventimiglia's big breach came in 2006 if he accustomed the allotment of nurse-turned-superhero Peter Petrelli for four seasons on NBC's Heroes.

Early life

Ventimiglia was built-in in Orange County, California, the son of Carol (née Wilson) and Peter Ventimiglia.His ancestor is of Sicilian coast and his mother has English, Irish, Scottish, French, and Cherokee Native American ancestry. His endure name, Ventimiglia, is the name of the boondocks of Ventimiglia in Liguria, Italy, which afterwards gave its name to accession city, Ventimiglia di Sicilia. 'Venti miglia' aswell agency 'twenty miles' in Italian. The youngest of three children, he has two earlier sisters, one of which is alleged Rose. He has explained in an account with USA Today that his "crooked mouth" is a aftereffect of comatose fretfulness on the larboard side, which could cause that ancillary to abide immobile, abundant like, incidentally, Sylvester Stallone, with whom he formed in Rocky Balboa.

Ventimiglia abounding El Modena Top School in Orange, California, area he wrestled, acted in ball productions and captivated the appointment of admiral in apprentice government. He accelerating in 1995. At eighteen years of age, Ventimiglia accustomed a scholarship to abstraction at the American Conservatory Theater for their summer program. He abounding UCLA as an English above for four years, but did not graduate.

Career

At 18 years of age, Ventimiglia started auditioning, booking jobs, and alive his way up. His aboriginal starring role was as a gay jailbait in Must Be The Music, a abbreviate blur arise as allotment of Strand Releasing's Boys Activity 2. From there, Ventimiglia advised at UCLA afore landing a role on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Ventimiglia has aswell bedfellow starred on such television alternation as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Sabrina, the Boyish Witch, Law and Order: Special Victims Assemblage and Boston Public. He had the allotment of the capital character, Jed Perry, in the brief FOX TV series, Opposite Sex. Milo aswell played a key role in an Apple advert for the Apple iBook.

From 2001 to 2004, Ventimiglia played absorption boyhood Jess Mariano on Gilmore Girls. He alive on for a aftereffect of Gilmore Girls, advantaged Windward Circle, which was traveling to be focused on the accord amid Jess and his conflicting ancestor (played by Rob Estes), but the proposed alternation never fabricated it to air because of top filming costs. The division 3 adventure Here Comes the Son, was the pilot for the California-set spin-off, which would accept starred Ventimiglia, Rob Estes and Sherilyn Fenn. Ventimiglia alternate to Gilmore Girls for a few episodes in seasons four and six afterwards his 2003 departure.

In the third and final division of the NBC ball American Dreams, Ventimiglia played Chris Pierce, the alienated admirer of Meg Pryor (Brittany Snow). Pierce and his individual mother, Shelly (Daphne Zuniga), a Playboy bunny, move into the abode next to the Pryors. Chris Pierce evades the draft, fearing he would be affected to action in the Vietnam War, area Meg Pryor's earlier brother, J.J. (Will Estes) was wounded. Chris and Meg escape Philadelphia in the alternation afterpiece to Berkeley, California, abundant to the anguish of Meg's best friend, Roxanne Bojarski (Vanessa Lengies).

In 2005, he starred in the mid-season backup alternation The Bedford Diaries, for which he did not accept to audition. The producers had alone Ventimiglia in apperception for the role. However, the appearance lasted alone eight episodes and was one of several shows not best up by the newly-formed arrangement The CW. During his answer from television and assembly work, he has had acknowledging roles in abhorrence films such as Cursed and Stay Alive as able-bodied as starring roles in the short-film Intelligence and the affection feature Dirty Deeds. Most recently, he played Robert "Rocky Jr." Balboa, the son of Rocky Balboa, in the latest Rocky chapter Rocky Balboa which was arise in December 2006. Coincidentally, in the 2004 Gilmore Girls episode, "Nag Hammadi Is Area they Found the Gnostic Gospels", Lorelai Gilmore refers to Milo's character, Jess, as getting able to "pull off an acutely acceptable 'Adrian'", a advertence allegory Jess to Rocky Balboa.

Ventimiglia at the Heroes division three premiere, September 2008

In his better role to date, he starred as Peter Petrelli in the NBC affairs Heroes, a appearance about "ordinary" humans advertent they accept superpowers. Alongside his plan in Heroes, Ventimiglia has aswell taken on added projects. In mid-2007 he starred as the adulation absorption of pop/R&B accompanist Fergie in the music video for "Big Girls Don't Cry". In 2008, he starred in the abhorrence blur Pathology. The cine co-starred Charmed extra Alyssa Milano and was directed by Marc Schoelermann for MGM.

After alive with writers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor on Pathology, Ventimiglia appeared in the pair's next film, Gamer. He has alleged Neveldine and Taylor the "next big thing" in filmmaking and anon agreed to play the allotment of Rick Rape in the affected thriller. If anecdotic Rick Rape, Ventimiglia said that "Moonraker, argent grill, with a acrylic accouterments authoritative him attending like a bumblebee. With the abnormal attributes of a boyish boy on speed." Ventimiglia is set to brilliant in the Xavier Gens apocalypse abstruseness blur The Divide.

He will be the articulation of Wolverine in the accessible English dub of the Marvel Anime: Wolverine anime series.

Production work

In accession to getting assassin as a additional assemblage administrator for the 2003 and 2004 "Image Campaigns" for the above WB Network, Divide Pictures (the assembly aggregation Ventimiglia co-owns and operates with best acquaintance Russ Cundiff), is now bearing and developing a mini web-series alleged It's a Mall World as allotment of a business attack for American Eagle Outfitters. The webisodes are due to alpha airing on American Eagle's official, during episodes of the new division of MTV's The Real World, and in American Eagle food civic on August 2. According to American Eagle's website, Ventimiglia will be administering the series, while his acquaintance Cundiff will be bearing it.

In 2005, Divide Pictures created The DSC, or Divide Amusing Club, an online and all-around amusing arrangement for like absent individuals co-founded by Ventimiglia with his best accompany Cundiff and Dino DeMilio, a radio ambassador for "The Tom Leykis Show". In accession to bodice production, Divide Amusing Club aswell produces "internet content" in the anatomy of videos that accept appeared on YouTube.

Ventimiglia, Russ Cundiff and Divide Pictures partnered with Top Cow to aftermath the banana alternation REST which will be a account bound series. The banana is about John Barret, a white-collar New Yorker whose activity changes if he becomes absorbed to a biologic that prevents him from falling asleep. Divide aswell has a banana book alleged Berserker accounting by Rick Loverd.

Ventimiglia will co-produce and arise in "Ultradome," a web alternation which will agitation the allusive claim of science fiction characters. The activity is a accord amid Agility Studios and Ventimiglia's DiVide Pictures. In the aboriginal episode, Ventimiglia will altercate in favor of Lord of the Rings' ahead over Brilliant Wars.

Personal life

Ventimiglia in Iraq, 2008

Ventimiglia is a lacto-vegetarian and has been back birth. He aswell does not smoke cigarettes or booze alcohol. He is a fan of seminal British jailbait bandage The Clash, and is an ardent skateboard fan. Afore getting casting on Heroes, Ventimiglia had been alive with abutting accompany Steve Berra and Patrick Fugit. He anachronous his Gilmore Girls co-star Alexis Bledel for three and a bisected years, alpha about December 2002, afore amid ancient afore July 2006. He aswell anachronous his Heroes co-star Hayden Panettiere from December 2007 to February 2009.

Ventimiglia took a United Account Organization bout from July 6 to 12, 2008 in abutment of American troops in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan.