He personally did the voice of A.D Walter Skinner in the x-files game Resist or Serve.
Mitch Pileggi appeared as a senator for "The West Wing".
He appeared in the pilot of Day break.
He landed his The X-Files role as F.B.I. Assistant Director Walter S. Skinner partly because the producers wanted to play against type and introduce a quietly dynamic bureaucrat rather than the stereotypical paper-pusher.
Skinner's character was based on his father.
He was a cop in the movie "Basic Instinct".
He lived in Turkey for awhile.
Mitch Pileggi played football in high school.
To get the role of Skinner, he had to audition three times. "I thought, this guy {X-Files creator Chris Carter} either hates me or I must be a totally bad actor," says Pileggi. "But he told me later it was because my shaved head was too extreme for an FBI agent." The role was originally intended to be a minor one, but it fit Pileggi so well that he was soon getting more and more lines.
After guest-starring as Assistant Director Walter Skinner in a first-season episode of The X-Files in 1994, Pileggi was asked back for several episodes of the second season. The character gradually became the most important character besides the two leads, and remained with the show until its end in 2002.
Mitch and his wife Arlene were married in Hawaii on Christmas Break 1996.
He played a hitman in "Model INC". (during the 2 last episodes of the serie)
Mitch Pileggi graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.
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