Milo Ventimiglia: Snapshot
- Name
- Milo Ventimiglia
- Date of Birth
- July 08, 1977
- Birth Place
- Anaheim, Calif.
On the big screen, he portrayed Sylvester Stallone's son in Rocky Balboa, and he has also jumped behind the camera with his production company Divide Pictures. As for his personal life, Ventimiglia dated Gilmore Girls costar Alexis Bledel for three and a half years, and although he has denied romance rumors about his Heroes costar Hayden Panettiere, the pair indeed coupled-up until 2009.
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Milo Ventimiglia: Five Fun Facts
- Milo Ventimiglia has a birth defect: his self-described "crooked" mouth, which he explains as dead nerves causing his lower lip to lie limp. "It's so cute," Heroes costar Hayden Panettiere tells USA Today. "It's a flaw, and I hate perfection more than anything in the world."
- When Milo Ventimiglia was struggling to make it as an actor, he had a backup plan: "I thought about ditching it to be a mechanic," he told PEOPLE in 2008.
- In 2000, Milo Ventimiglia traveled solo through Europe, where he spent his 23rd birthday in the small town of Ventimiglia, Italy, where his surname originated.
- Milo Ventimiglia lived with Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley when the two costarred on The Bedford Diaries.
- Of his Heroes character's occupation as a male hospice worker, Milo Ventimiglia said, "I showed up for the cast photo shoot with scrubs on and Greg Grunberg's in his cop outfit, standing tall, hand on his gun, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I'm a murse [''male nurse'']. Not a doctor, a nurse.'"
Milo Ventimiglia: Biography 
- 2000
Milo's Many Failed Series
After a series of failed TV shows (CBS' Brooklyn South and the Touched By An Angel spin-off Promised Land), Ventimiglia headlines the highly touted Fox series Opposite Sex. In this teen angst dramedy, he plays one of three boys entering an all-female institution. "I'm thinking about the future," the actor, 23, tells Tennessee's News-Sentinel. "If this show is a hit, then that's great. If it isn't, it has been a learning experience." The show turns out to be a learning experience.
- 2001
Rory Gilmore's Jess
Ventimiglia plays the intelligent rebel Jess Mariano on the WB's Gilmore Girls with Alexis Bledel (left). After two seasons, he is set to carry his character into a highly anticipated spin-off. But it doesn't come together. Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino, who compares the actor to Johnny Depp and Jake Gyllenhaal says, "The door is always open for his return."
- 2002
Taking it Offscreen
Ventimiglia and costar Alexis Bledel (right) keep their off-screen relationship low profile. In 2006, Bledel admits to PEOPLE that they have discussed marriage: "I think everybody who has been dating for more than a couple of years probably talks about it at some point." In July 2006, after three and a half years together, Bledel and Ventimiglia announce their breakup. "There's an emotion that goes with that," he tells Men's Fitness in 2007. "I didn't really keep myself together as I should have."
Photo Credits
Top Left: Ursula Dueren/Landov
BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): amazon.com; Sara De Boer/Retna
