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Alessandro Nivola
Alessandro Nivola in 2016.
Born
Alessandro Antine Nivola

(1972-06-28) June 28, 1972 (age 52)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Other namesSandro
Alma materPhillips Exeter Academy
Yale University
OccupationActor
Years active1995–present
SpouseEmily Mortimer (2003–present)
ChildrenSamuel 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
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

  1. ^ His second name "Antine" is the Sardinian form of the Italian "Costantino", his grandfather's name, the sculptor Costantino Nivola.
  2. ^ "Alessandro Nivola Biography (1972?-)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  3. ^ "Alessandro Nivola Biography". Tvguide.com. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  4. ^ Fee, Gayle (October 1, 2007). "Inside Track". Boston Herald.
  5. ^ "Thomas J. Davis, 77, Investment Executive". The New York Times. September 13, 1990.
  6. ^ "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. ^ "WGNTV.com". Timeliness: Will it help 'Goal' score?. Retrieved June 17, 2006. [dead link]
  8. ^ Scaduto, Anthony (September 9, 1999). "Quotes: ALESSANDRO NIVOLA isn't afraid of stardom". Newsday.
  9. ^ [1] Archived May 7, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Huck, Peter (July 14, 2001). "Charmer chameleon". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  11. ^ "And the Nominees Should Be". The New York Times. December 27, 2012.
  12. ^ "Alessandro Nivola: My Brooklyn". New York Post. Retrieved February 12, 2017.
  13. ^ http://nypost.com/2013/11/16/alessandro-nivola-my-brooklyn/
  14. ^ Potter, Sally. "Ginger & Rosa". Sally Potter. Retrieved September 17, 2012.
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