In August, 2007, Ventimiglia and the David Amram quartet presented a musical and oral homage to Sociologist C. Wright Mills and beat author Jack Kerouac. They continued with a Kerouac show in Denmark in autumn of 2007. Ventimiglia starred in the comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead (2008), playing the role of Theo Horace. In 2008, he played a small role as a police officer in Notorious. In 2011, he appeared as "Weinstein" in the film Flypaper.
In 2011, he starred in a small indie film, PONIES. In 2012, he guest starred in the CBS short lived series Made in Jersey. In 2012, he starred, as Humberto Delgado, the Portuguese film Operation Autumn, a film about General Humberto Delgado's brutal assassination in Spain by the Portuguese fascists.
Ventimiglia was born in Ridgewood, Queens to a Sicilian American family, and grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, graduating from Teaneck High School in 1981, where he played on the football team. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his two daughters. He is not related to the actor Milo Ventimiglia, who appeared on the TV series Heroes and Gilmore Girls. In 2016, he played Harry Magarac on the episode of Elementary, entitled "Murder Ex Machina", first aired on January 21, 2016. He also did narration for the Nat Geo television documentary series Inside the American Mob.
