Alessandro Nivola

American actor (born 1972)Template:SHORTDESC:American actor (born 1972)

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**Alessandro Antine Nivola** (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor. He has been nominated for a Tony Award and an Independent Spirit Award and has won a Screen Actors Guild Award, a British Independent Film Award (BIFA), and the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival among others.

As a producer he runs King Bee Productions which made two seasons of the HBO comedy *Doll & Em* and the Independent Spirit Award nominated feature film *To Dust*.

## Early life

Nivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Virginia (née Davis), is an artist, and his father, Pietro Salvatore Nivola, was a professor of political science and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. Nivola's paternal grandfather was the Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola, and his paternal grandmother, Ruth Guggenheim, was a Jewish refugee from Germany. He was born the first of two boys; his brother, Adrian Nivola, a painter, is five years younger. Nivola attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. His family also lived in Burlington, Vermont, where he attended Mater Christi School, a ministry of the Sisters of Mercy.Template:Citation needed

## Career

Nivola graduated from Yale University with a BA in English in 1994 and a year later made his Broadway debut opposite Helen Mirren in *A Month in the Country* earning a Drama Desk Award nomination. Shortly after that came his breakthrough performance in John Woo's feature film *Face/Off* (1997) playing Nicolas Cage's brother Pollux Troy. In the ensuing years he has starred in many films including *Mansfield Park* (1999), *Love's Labour's Lost* (2000), *Jurassic Park 3* (2001), *Laurel Canyon* (2002 - Independent Spirit Award nomination), *Junebug* (2005), *Goal! 1* & *2* (2005, 2007), *Coco Before Chanel* (2009), *Ginger & Rosa* (2012), *American Hustle* (2013 - Screen Actors Guild Award, Critics Choice Award), *A Most Violent Year* (2014), *Selma* (2014 - Critics Choice Award nomination), *The Neon Demon* (2016), *One Percent More Humid* (Best Actor Award 2017 Tribeca Film Festival), *You Were Never Really Here* (2017), *Disobedience* (2017 - British Independent Film Award, London Critics Circle Film Award nomination), *The Art of Self Defense* (2019), and *The Red Sea Diving Resort* (2019).

He played Dickie Moltisanti, the lead role in *The Many Saints of Newark*, David Chase's feature film prequel to his heralded television series *The Sopranos*. He recently wrapped filming on David O. Russell's untitled feature opposite Christian Bale and Margot Robbie, as well as the comedy feature *Spin Me Round* opposite Alison Brie and Aubrey Plaza.

Nivola has also worked frequently in television, starring opposite Robert De Niro in Barry Levinson's Madoff family biopic *The Wizard of Lies* (2017), as well as the TNT miniseries *The Company* (2007), the UK Channel 4 series *Chimerica* (2019), and the three-part BBC miniseries *Black Narcissus*, broadcast 27, 28, and 29 December 2020.

Onstage, in addition to *A Month in the Country*, he starred on Broadway in 2013 in *The Winslow Boy* (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), and in 2014 in *The Elephant Man* opposite Bradley Cooper (Tony Award nomination), and off-Broadway in the Ethan Hawke-directed Sam Shepard play *A Lie of the Mind* (2010) with Laurie Metcalf. He also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1995 Williamstown Theater Festival production of Shakespeare's *As You Like It*.

In 2013 Nivola established King Bee Productions with his wife Emily Mortimer. The company produced two seasons of the half hour comedy *Doll & Em* for HBO and BSkyB. He also produced *To Dust* starring Matthew Broderick which won the Audience Award at the 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival and was nominated for a 2020 Independent Spirit Award.

In March 2022, it was announced that Nivola was cast in Sony's *Kraven the Hunter* film, set for release on January 13, 2023. He will reportedly play the film's antagonist.

## Personal life

Nivola married British actress Emily Mortimer in Buckinghamshire in January 2003. The couple have two children and live in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Nivola became a British citizen and Mortimer became an American citizen.

## References

1. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Celebrity Birthdays: June 28". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. June 28, 2021. Retrieved June 28, 2021. Actor Alessandro Nivola ... is 49
2. ↑ Alessandro Nivola Biography. Tvguide.com.
3. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Fee, Gayle (October 1, 2007). "Inside Track". *Boston Herald*.
4. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Thomas J. Davis, 77, Investment Executive". *The New York Times*. September 13, 1990.
5. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Elias, Justine (September 13, 1998). "THE NEW SEASON/FILM: UP AND COMING: Alessandro Nivola; From a Family of Painters, a Quick-Change Artist". *The New York Times*. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
6. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>"Costantino Nivola: public and private: a selection of Nivola's sculptures, soon to leave the U.S. for a permanent home in a museum devoted to the artist in Sardinia, provided a rare overview of his work at the Parrish Museum". Art in America. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
7. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Tangcay, Jazz (April 25, 2018). "Interview: Alessandro Nivola on Playing the Conflicted Dovid in Disobedience". *Awards Daily*. Archived from the original on May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018. Alessandro Nivola: "My grandmother was German-Jewish from Frankfurt and she ended up being a Holocaust refugee."
8. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Pisani, Lavinia (November 10, 2015). "A Conversation with Italian American Star Alessandro Nivola". *L'Italo-Americano Newspaper*. Archived from the original on May 20, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
9. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Bloom, Nate (April 18, 2018). "Amy Schumer 'feeling pretty'; and a young Jewish Picasso". *J. The Jewish News of Northern California*. Retrieved May 19, 2018.
10. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Menzel, Scott (May 9, 2018). "Alessandro Nivola talks Disobedience, reuniting with Rachel Weisz, and The Art of Self-Defense". *We Live Entertainment*. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
11. ↑ WGNTV.com. *Timeliness: Will it help 'Goal' score?*. Template:Dead link
12. ↑ A Month in the Country Production History.
13. ↑ Tribeca Film Festival 'Keep the Change,' 'Bobbi Jene' Win Top Awards (April 27, 2017).
14. ↑ British Independent Film Awards: 'The Favourite' Wins A Record Ten Awards (December 2, 2018).
15. ↑ 'Sopranos' Prequel Film Taps Alessandro Nivola For Lead Role (November 20, 2018).
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17. ↑ Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Alessandro Nivola Top Ensemble Comedy 'Spin Me Round' from Limelight & Duplass Brothers (May 6, 2021).
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19. ↑ <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>Vincentelli, Elizabeth (November 16, 2013). "Alessandro Nivola: My Brooklyn". New York Post. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
20. ↑ de Bertodano, Helena. Emily Mortimer interview: 'I hope my kids don't look like my father'. *Telegraph*. Telegraph Media Group Limited.
21. ↑ Potter, Sally. Ginger & Rosa. Sally Potter.
22. ↑ Dick, Jeremy (March 20, 2022). Sony's Kraven the Hunter Movie Starts Filming, First Set Footage Revealed.

## External links

* Alessandro Nivola at IMDb
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