 For his role as Jack Pearson, Ventimiglia received three nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.As member of the "This Is Us" cast, he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series in 2018 and 2019.Ventimiglia was born July 8, 1977. in Anaheim, California, the youngest child of Carol ("née" Wilson) and Peter Ventimiglia, a Vietnam War veteran.