Joe Chimi
- Actor
Joseph Anthony Chimi, Jr. grew up in Malden, Massachusetts where he
graduated high school in 1982. He attended the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst for three years before dropping out for
academic reasons. After a year back in the Boston area, he decided to
return to the Pioneer Valley where he worked in the supermarket
business as a cashier and baker for twelve years. He began appearing in
local community theatre productions in 1995. In 1996 he met his future
wife Tammy who soon began undergraduate studies at UMass Boston. The
following year, he moved back to the Boston area to be with her where
he continued to work as a baker. He completed computer training in 1998
and soon landed a well-paying data entry job. In January of 1999, the
couple moved back to Western Massachusetts where they still
live.