He's America's TV dad. Get to know 'This Is Us' star Milo Ventimiglia
It's just after 1 a.m. and Milo Ventimiglia, finally settling into his Minneapolis hotel room after a climactic Super Bowl night, can at long last sleep with one less secret to keep.
"I'm happy everyone is in the know," he says by phone.
As flawed-but-nearly-perfect patriarch Jack Pearson on NBC's megahit "This Is Us," Ventimiglia has joined the roster of TV's most beloved dads. So beloved, in fact, that the character's death, revealed in the show's debut season, and the mystery surrounding it, kindled the question, "How did Jack die?" It quickly became a pop culture phenomenon rife with conspiracy theories.
On Sunday, the answer came. (This is ... where the spoilers start.)
With its plum post-Super Bowl slot, the time-jumping, twist-friendly family drama once and for all revealed that Jack died of cardiac arrest after inhaling too much smoke while saving his family's dog - and
