Early life

Imperioli, an Italian American, was born in Mount Vernon, New York, the son of Dan Imperioli, a bus driver and amateur actor. In his early childhood he attended Lincoln School in Mount Vernon. He graduated from Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers, New York in 1983.

Career

Imperioli has been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards as well as for five Emmy Awards for his work as Christopher Moltisanti on The Sopranos; he won one Emmy, for the show's fifth season in 2004.

In addition to his role on The Sopranos, Imperioli has appeared in a number of films, including Goodfellas, Jungle Fever, Bad Boys, The Basketball Diaries, Clockers, Dead Presidents, 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. In addition, he also wrote a number of episodes for The Sopranos.

He served as artistic director of Studio Dante, an Off-Broadway theater he formed with his wife. He is also the lead singer/guitarist for a rock band named La Dolce Vita.

Imperioli 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 episode MB2E08 ("San Giuseppe") of Mario Batali's Food Network television show Molto Mario.

In 2010, Imperioli was signed on to play the lead in the ABC TV 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.

He 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.

Personal life

Imperioli is married to Victoria Chlebowski since 1995, lives in Santa Barbara, California and has three children. He and his family are avid practitioners of Tae Kwon Do.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Alexa	Acid Head
	Lean on Me	Punk who gets expelled by Joe Clark
1990	Goodfellas	Michael "Spider" Gianco
1991	Jungle Fever	James Tucci
1992	Fathers & Sons	Johnny
	Malcolm X	Reporter at Fire Bombing
1993	The Night We Never Met	Dry Cleaning Costumer #1
	Joey Breaker	Larry Metz
	Household Saints	Leonard Villanova
1994	Scenes from the New World	Billy
	Touch Base	Bennie
	Hand Gun	Benny
	Men Lie
	Amateur	Doorman at Club
	Postcards from America	The Hustler
1995	The Addiction	Missionary
	Trouble	Ellis
	Bad Boys	Jojo
	The Basketball Diaries	Bobby
	Clockers	Detective 'Jo-Jo'
	Flirt	Michael
	Dead Presidents	D'ambrosio
1996	Girls Town	Anthony
	Blixa Bargeld Stole My Cowboy Boots	Johnny
	Sweet Nothing	Angelo
	Girl 6	Scary Caller #30
	I Shot Andy Warhol	Ondine
	Trees Lounge	George
	Last Man Standing	Giorgio Carmonte
1997	A River Made to Drown In	Allen Hayden
	Firehouse	Lt. O'Connell
	The Deli	Matty
	Office Killer	Daniel Birch
	Under the Bridge
1998	Witness to the Mob	Louie Milito
	Too Tired to Die	Fabrizio
1999	On the Run	Albert DeSantis
	Summer of Sam	Midnight
1999-2007	The Sopranos	Christopher Moltisanti	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated—Golden Nymph Award for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Nominated—PRISM Award for Best Performance in a Drama Series Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2000	Auto Motives	Stud
	Disappearing Acts	Vinney
	Hamlet	Rosencrantz
2002	Love in the Time of Money	Will
2003	High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story	Stu Ungar
2004	My Baby's Daddy	Dominic
	Shark Tale	Frankie (voice)
	The Five People You Meet in Heaven	Captain
2005	Law & Order	Detective Nicholas "Nick" Falco
2006	The Simpsons	Dante, Jr.	Episode: "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
	The Sopranos: Road to Respect	Christopher Moltisanti	Video game voice-over
2007-2008	Life on Mars	Detective Raymond "Ray" Carling
2007	The Inner Life of Martin Frost	Jim Fortunato
	The Lovebirds	Vincent
	Oprah Winfrey Presents: Mitch Albom's For One More Day	Charley "Chick" Benetto
2008	Stóra Planið	Alexander
2009	Hungry Ghosts		Nominated—International Film Festival Rotterdam - Tiger Award
	The Lovely Bones	Len Fenerman
2010	Mercy	Harold Pindus
	Detroit 1-8-7	Detective Louis "Lou" Fitch
	Love & Distrust	Stud
2011	Stuck Between Stations	David
2012	Girls	Powell Goldman
	40
2013	The Call	Alan Denado
	The Office	Sensei Billy	Episode: "Livin' the Dream"
	Oldboy	Chucky
2014	Foreclosure	Bill Landopolous
	Rake	Alberto Rinaldi	Episode: "Bigamist"
	The Scribbler	Moss
	Californication	Rick Rath
	Cantinflas	Michael Todd
2015	The Wannabe	Alphonse
2015-2016	Hawaii Five-0	Odell Martin	Episodes: "Powehiwehi", "Kahania," "Ka Pohaku Kihi Pa'a"
2015-2016	Mad Dogs	Lex	Series regular

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