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Nivola married British actress [[Emily Mortimer]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] in January 2003. The couple have two children and live in the [[Brooklyn]] borough of [[New York City]]. <ref>http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/alessandro-nivola-my-brooklyn/ </ref> |
Nivola married British actress [[Emily Mortimer]] in [[Buckinghamshire]] in January 2003. The couple have two children and live in the [[Brooklyn]] borough of [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Alessandro Nivola: My Brooklyn|url=http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/alessandro-nivola-my-brooklyn/|publisher=New York Post|accessdate=12 February 2017}}</ref> <ref>http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/alessandro-nivola-my-brooklyn/ </ref> |
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==Filmography== |
==Filmography== |
Revision as of 07:14, 12 February 2017
Alessandro Nivola | |
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Born | Alessandro Antine Nivola June 28, 1972 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Other names | Sandro |
Alma mater | Phillips Exeter Academy Yale University |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1995–present |
Spouse | Emily Mortimer (2003–present) |
Children | Samuel Nivola May Nivola |
Alessandro Antine Nivola[1] (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor and producer, who has starred in feature films such as Face/Off, American Hustle, and A Most Violent Year.
Early life
Nivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Virginia (née Davis), is an artist, and his father, Pietro Salvatore Nivola (born 1944), is a professor of political science.[2][3][4][5] Nivola's paternal grandfather was the Sardinian sculptor Costantino Nivola, and his paternal grandmother, Ruth Guggenheim,[6] was a Jewish refugee from Germany.[7] Nivola has described his mother as "a WASP, from the South",[8][9] and has stated that she is a relative of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.[10] He has a brother, Adrian, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University. Alessandro's family also lived in Burlington, Vermont where he attended Mater Christi School, a ministry of the Sisters of Mercy.
Career
Nivola earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for his first performance on the New York stage in the 1995 Broadway production of A Month In The Country opposite Helen Mirren. Since then he has starred in numerous films including David O. Russell's American Hustle which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award. Among his other films are Lisa Cholodenko’s Laurel Canyon (Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting actor), Coco Before Chanel, Junebug, Mansfield Park, Kenneth Branagh’s Love's Labour's Lost, Jurassic Park 3, Goal 1 and 2, The Eye, I Want You, Best Laid Plans, Janie Jones, Five Dollars A Day, and John Woo’s Face/Off (Blockbuster Entertainment Award nomination). In 2009 he was given the Excellence in Acting Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival.[citation needed]
In 2013, Nivola was among The New York Times critics’ pics for an Oscar nomination for his performance opposite Elle Fanning and Annette Bening in Sally Potter’s film Ginger & Rosa.[11] In 2014, he appeared in the films The Devil's Knot and A Most Violent Year. He returned to the theater and starred in the 2010 Off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's A Lie Of The Mind directed by Ethan Hawke. In 2013 he starred as Sir Robert Morton in the Broadway revival of Terrence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy. He returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 starring opposite Bradley Cooper in a revival of The Elephant Man. In 2012, Nivola established the film and television production company King Bee Productions with his wife, actress Emily Mortimer. Their first project was a six-part television series called Doll & Em which Nivola produced and Mortimer wrote and starred in. The program aired on Sky Living in the UK and on HBO in the United States in 2014.[citation needed]
Personal life
Nivola married British actress Emily Mortimer in Buckinghamshire in January 2003. The couple have two children and live in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.[12] [13]
Filmography
Film | |||
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Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1997 | Face/Off | Pollux Troy | Nominated - Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Supporting Actor in an Action/Adventure Film |
Inventing the Abbotts | Peter Vanlaningham | ||
1998 | I Want You | Martin | |
Reach the Rock | Robin | ||
1999 | Best Laid Plans | Nick | |
Mansfield Park | Henry Crawford | ||
2000 | Love's Labour's Lost | King Ferdinand of Navarre | |
Timecode | Joey Z | ||
2001 | Jurassic Park III | Billy Brennan | |
2002 | Imprint | Matt | Short film |
Laurel Canyon | Ian McKnight | Nominated - Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male | |
2003 | Carolina | Albert Morris | |
2004 | The Clearing | Tim Hayes | |
2005 | Junebug | George Johnsten | |
The Sisters | Andrew Prior | ||
Turning Green | Bill the Bookie | ||
Goal! | Gavin Harris | ||
2006 | The Darwin Awards | Ad Exec | |
2007 | Grace Is Gone | John Phillips | |
Goal! 2: Living the Dream | Gavin Harris | ||
The Girl in the Park | Chris | ||
2008 | The Eye | Dr. Paul Faulkner | |
Five Dollars a Day | Ritchie Flynn Parker | ||
Who Do You Love? | Leonard Chess | ||
2009 | Coco Before Chanel | Arthur 'Boy' Capel | |
2010 | Howl | Luther Nichols | |
Janie Jones | Ethan Brand | ||
2012 | Ginger & Rosa[14] | Roland | |
2013 | American Hustle | Anthony Amado | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture |
2014 | Devil's Knot | Terry Hobbs | |
Selma | John Doar | ||
A Most Violent Year | Peter Forente | ||
2016 | The Neon Demon | Fashion Designer | |
2017 | You Were Never Really Here | Filming | |
Disobedience | Filming | ||
Television | |||
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
1996 | Remember WENN | Paul Rice | Episode: "Valentino Speaks!" |
The Ring | Noel | Television film | |
1998 | The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery | Doug | Television film |
2007 | The Company | Leo Kritzky | Miniseries |
2015 | Doll & Em | John | 4 episodes |
2017 | The Wizard of Lies | Mark Madoff | Television film |
References
- ^ His second name "Antine" is the Sardinian form of the Italian "Costantino", his grandfather's name, the sculptor Costantino Nivola.
- ^ "Alessandro Nivola Biography (1972?-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ^ "Alessandro Nivola Biography". Tvguide.com. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
- ^ Fee, Gayle (October 1, 2007). dids=1348991831:1348991831&FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:FT&type=current&date=Oct+01%2C+2007&author=GAYLE+FEE%3B+LAURA+RAPOSA%3B+ERIN+HAYES&pub=Boston+Herald&desc=INSIDE+TRACK&pqatl=google "Inside Track". Boston Herald.
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value (help) - ^ "Thomas J. Davis, 77, Investment Executive". The New York Times. September 13, 1990.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "WGNTV.com". Timeliness: Will it help 'Goal' score?. Retrieved June 17, 2006. [dead link]
- ^ Scaduto, Anthony (September 9, 1999). "Quotes: ALESSANDRO NIVOLA isn't afraid of stardom". Newsday.
- ^ [1] Archived May 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Huck, Peter (July 14, 2001). "Charmer chameleon". The Daily Telegraph. London.
- ^ "And the Nominees Should Be". The New York Times. December 27, 2012.
- ^ "Alessandro Nivola: My Brooklyn". New York Post. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
- ^ http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/alessandro-nivola-my-brooklyn/
- ^ Potter, Sally. "Ginger & Rosa". Sally Potter. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
External links
- Alessandro Nivola at IMDb
- Alessandro Nivola at the Internet Broadway Database
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- 1972 births
- Living people
- American male film actors
- American male stage actors
- American male television actors
- American people of Italian descent
- American people of German-Jewish descent
- American people of Sardinian descent
- Male actors from Boston
- Phillips Exeter Academy alumni
- American male Shakespearean actors
- Yale University alumni
- People from Echo Park, Los Angeles
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors
- Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- Male actors of Italian descent