Mitch Pileggi

Biography

Mitch Pileggi was born on April 5, 1952, in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is an actor, known for Basic Instinct (1992), The X-Files (1993), and Shocker (1989). He has been married to Arlene Warren since January 1, 1997. They have one child. He was previously married to Debbie Andrews.

Besides David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, he is the only other actor to appear in The X-Files (1993), The X-Files (1998), and The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008).

In real life, Mitch Pileggi (Skinner) met his wife Arlene Warren on the set of The X-Files (1993) while she was stand-in to Gillian Anderson (Scully). In later episodes, Warren got some screen time--as Skinner's secretary, named Arlene.

Can speak German, as a consequence of growing up in Germany for a while as an "army brat".

Pileggi and his wife second wife, Arlene, wed in Hawaii during Christmas Break in 1996. David Duchovny was Pileggi's best man.

He began acting while he was a high school student in Turkey, playing musical theater.

Pileggi was working as a defense contractor in Isfahan, Iran, about two weeks before Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was deposed, in 1979. 

Due to strained relations between Iran and the United States, the company he worked for was evacuating the employees on a Pan American flight. 

Pileggi said in a 2008 radio interview that for some reason, possibly for a supernormal reason, he booked his own flight with Swiss Air, on the plane that would be the last out of the country for many days.

 They were supposed to land in Baghdad, Iraq, but a thunderstorm prevented any landings, so the pilot flew them to Athens, Greece. Pileggi said, "I think we got there on fumes.".

Appeared in the play "Frankie and Johnny in The Clair De Lune," in Austin, Texas at Zachary Scott Theatre. The play was controversial at the time as the actors were nude throughout the production.

Appeared in the original TV series "Dallas" (1978) and the 2012 continuation of "Dallas". He plays a different, unrelated character in each one.

Daughter Sawyer Scout Pileggi was born May 24, 1998.

Will begin a recurring role as Colonel Caldwell on the Sci-Fi series Stargate: Atlantis (2004).

Graduated from the University of Texas at Austin.

His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent. The rest of his ancestry is English, Scottish, and German.