From Bad-Boy Boyfriend to America’s Dad: How Milo Ventimigla Survived Hollywood and Found Lasting Success
Despite what This Is Us' success may make it seem, Milo Ventimiglia hasn't always been America's TV dad.
With two seasons as the NBC hit's imperfectly perfect patriarch Jack Pearson under his belt, the actor, who just turned 41, has firmly planted himself in the pantheon of all-time great fictional fathers.
But when audiences first met the hunky Ventimiglia, he was playing a decidedly different sort of character—one that Papa Pearson might have some issues with if teenage Kate brought him home in an episode of This Is Us.
After guest-star spots in shows as varied as Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Saved by the Bell: The New Class, fans got their first real taste of Ventimiglia in 2001 when he...
