Michael Imperioli

For six seasons, Michael Imperioli was an explosive fixture on HBO’s critically acclaimed Mafia chronicle The Sopranos earning him five Emmy and two Golden Globe nominations before winning an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. In addition to playing Christopher, Michael also wrote five episodes of the series. Prior to making his mark on pop culture history with his finely drawn portrait of an Italian American thug with suppressed artistic instincts, Imperioli was an active figure in the New York independent film scene of the 1990s. He was often seen in street-smart character roles for directors like Martin Scorsese, Walter Hill, Hal Hartley, Abel Ferrara, The Hughes brothers, Paul Auster, and Spike Lee, with whom he also co-scripted and co-produced the feature Summer of Sam. Michael also wrote and directed the independent feature The Hungry Ghosts. More recently, Michael was seen in HBO’s second season of Mike White’s acclaimed hit series The White Lotus as Dominic Di Grasso, a role for which he received a 2023 Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Currently Michael can be seen repeating his role of Minister Payne in season two of Hulu’s hit series This Fool.

Michael recently completed shooting Paul Schrader’s film Oh Canada alongside Richard Gere and Uma Thurman. Imperioli is the guitarist and vocalist for the band Zopa, and the co-host, alongside Steve Schirripa, on the very popular podcast and tour, Talking Sopranos. He is a NY Times Best Selling Author of Woke Up This Morning, The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos (with Steve Schirripa), and wrote the novel The Perfume Burned His Eyes, which he is currently adapting as a screenplay. He also served as artistic director of Studio Dante, an off-Broadway theatre company. He was recently seen on Broadway opposite Jeremy Strong in a record-breaking and award-winning run of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.