Michael Imperioli
Michael Imperioli
James Michael Imperioliis an Italian-American actor, writer and director best known for his role as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He also appeared in the TV drama series Law & Order as NYPD Detective Nick Falco. Imperioli spent the 2008-2009 television season as Detective Ray Carling in the US version of Life on Mars. He was starring as Detective Louis Fitch in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth26 March 1966
CityMount Vernon, NY
CountryUnited States of America
house progressive new plays in a setting inspired by the grand architecture and design of traditional 19th Century venues.
Tony literally makes you an offer you can't refuse. He's always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you're there. Period.
Put a gangster and a junkie together and you get a junkie gangster, and you get nominated, there you go.
We take them to dinner... When you're asked to dinner, it's not such a good thing. Remember that.
We take 'em to dinner. Lots of rituals revolve around food, as you saw. When you're asked to dinner, it's not such a good thing.
But James Gandolfini and Edie Falco, they did such great work, especially in the last show.
'Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
When he started, Christopher was really like a kid. He's had, over the years, more and more adult responsibilities and adult experiences. He's kind of closed some of the generation gap with Tony. But to play a character that actually progresses throughout time and matures is a luxury.
Geographically, economically and culturally, they grew up kind of similar.
To be at acting school, it was kind of the first time you felt the freedom to be as much of yourself as you wanted. People weren't going to judge you.
I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.
Back 20 years ago, there was a division between movie actors and TV actors. That's kind of gone away. People who have had a lot of success in movies in the past now want to be on TV. There used to be much more of a quality division between TV and movies, and that's kind of not the case anymore.
Detroit 1-8-7' - the numbers are police slang for murder - is filmed in that blue-collar Michigan city, providing a flavor of authenticity. Detroit offers a unique visual landscape that tells the story of the city and what it's been through.
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here, and the city, physically, has suffered. You can see it in certain neighborhoods, and there's buildings downtown that have been abandoned.