Alessandro Nivola is one of the most popular and richest Movie Actor who was born on June 28, 1972 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He starred opposite Josh Brolin in the 1999 film, Best Laid Plans.
Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor and producer. He has been nominated for many awards including a Tony Award, a Critics Choice 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.
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 and 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), and The Art of Self Defense (2019).
He married actress Emily Mortimer in 2003. He has two kids named May Rose and Samuel John Nivola.
He was once was the neighbor of actor Heath Ledger.
Nivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Virginia (née Davis), is an artist, and his father, Pietro Salvatore Nivola (1944–2017), 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 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.
