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Milo Ventimiglia
The writer's strike might have provided the season's most unexpected plot twist on the hit television drama Heroes, but that hasn't done much to mitigate the hubbub surrounding one of the show's stars, Milo Ventimiglia. As the chronically embattled, mystically powered male nurse Peter Petrelli, Ventimiglia has become the series' resident hunk with a tortured heart.
Born and raised in Orange County, California, the 30-year-old Ventimiglia has been acting for half his life. For most of those years, he has been the sort of journeyman television actor you might have seen even if you didn't know that you saw him - on Sabrina, the teenage Witch; Boston Public; American Dreams; Law & Order: Special Victim's Unit; CSI; Gilmore Girls; Opposite Sex; The Bedford Diaries; and in other assorted walk-on, recurring, and short-lived starring roles. (That guy who makes Fergie want to cry in her video for the song "Big Girls Don't Cry"? That's Ventimiglia, too.)
The success of Heroes, though, has really allowed Ventimiglia to spread his wings: This month, he also stars alongside Alyssa Milano in Pathology, a big-screen thriller about a group of medical students who conspire to commit the perfect murder. And while Ventimiglia's new-found career fortune may not have arrived overnight, one thing is certain: Like his character on Heroes, he has just begun to show the world what he's truly capable of- and it's looking like some pretty big things. __________________ -Kelly |