Alessandro Nivola Biography

Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor and producer, who has starred in feature films such as American Hustle and Face/Off.

Early life

Nivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Virginia (ne Davis), is an artist, and his father, Pietro Salvatore Nivola, is a professor of political science who wrote the book Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America. Nivola's paternal grandfather was the Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola, and his paternal grandmother, Ruth Guggenheim, was a Jewish refugee from Germany. Nivola has described his mother as "a WASP, from the South", and has stated that she is a relative of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He has a brother, Adrian, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University.

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 Brannagh"?s Love's Labor'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.

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 and Rosa.

In 2014 he filmed Devil's Knot opposite Reese Witherspoon and A Most Violent Year opposite Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.

He has continued to return 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 is set to return to Broadway in the fall of 2014 starring opposite his American Hustle co-star Bradley Cooper in a new revival of The Elephant Man.

In 2012, Nivola established the film and television production company King Bee Productions with his wife, the 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 US in 2014.

Nivola graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University with a BA in English.

Personal life

Nivola married British actress Emily Mortimer in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire in January 2003; the couple have a son, Samuel John, born in Westminster, London, on September 23, 2003. They also have a daughter, May Rose, born on January 15, 2010. They live in Brooklyn, New York.

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	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
	A Most Violent Year	Peter Forente
	Selma	John Doar
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1996	Remember WENN	Paul Rice	Episode: Valentino Speaks!
	The Ring	Noel	TV-Movie
1998	The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery	Doug	TV-Movie
2007	The Company	Leo Kritzky	Miniseries