Mitch Pileggi is an Italian-American actor who plays the role of Ernest Darby on the FX original series Sons of Anarchy. Making his debut in the series' premiere episode, "Pilot", in the series' first season, Mitch plays the role of the leader of the Nordics, a White supremacist drug dealing street gang who mostly dealt with meth and prostitutes. Playing a recurring role through the series' first, second, third, and sixth seasons, Mitch was a major antagonist during the series' first and second seasons, and was last seen in the Season 6 episode "Wolfsangel".