Biography
Michael Imperioli is an American actor, novelist, screenwriter and musician. He was born on 26 March 1966 in Mount Vernon, New York, and trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.
He made his film debut in the late 1980s and gained early recognition for his role as Spider in Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas (1990). Imperioli is best known for portraying Christopher Moltisanti in the HBO series The Sopranos (1999–2007), for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2004. He has appeared in numerous films including Jungle Fever (1991), Bad Boys (1995), The Lovely Bones (2009) and One Night in Miami (2020), and played Dominic Di Grasso in the HBO series The White Lotus (2022).
In 2025 he appeared as Mark Shurilla in the film Song Sung Blue. His stage work includes a Broadway debut in the 2024 revival of An Enemy of the People.
