Alessandro Nivola Biography
Alessandro Nivola, born Alessandro Antine Nivola, is an actor and producer from the United States. He has starred in feature films such as Face/Off, American Hustle, A Most Violent Year.
He had a brief appearance in Selma.
Alessandro Nivola Career
He received a Drama Desk Award nomination for his debut performance on the New York stage. This was in the 1995 Broadway production of A Month In The Country alongside Helen Mirren. Ever since he has starred in a number of films including American Hustle which earned him a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Some of his other movies are Laurel Canyon (Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting actor), Coco Before Chanel, Junebug, Mansfield Park, 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 received the Excellence in Acting Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival.
In 2013, he was in The New York Times critics’ shortlist for an Oscar nomination. This was for his performance in Sally Potter’s film Ginger & Rosa, alongside Elle Fanning and Annette Bening. In 2014, he was featured in the films The Devil’s Knot and A Most Violent Year. He went back to the theatre, starring in the 2010 Off-Broadway revival of A Lie Of The Mind directed by Ethan Hawke. 2013 saw him he star as Sir Robert Morton in the Broadway revival of Terrence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy.
In the fall of 2014, he returned to Broadway starring opposite Bradley Cooper in a revival of The Elephant Man. In 2012, he and his wife established the film and TV production company King Bee Productions. The couple’s debut project was a six-part TV series called Doll & Em which Nivola produced and Mortimer wrote and starred in. The program was aired on Sky Living in the UK and on HBO in the United States in 2014.
Alessandro Nivola Disobedience
Disobedience is a 2017 romantic drama movie. The movie was directed by Sebastián Lelio and written by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The film is based on the novel of the same name by English novelist, Naomi Alderman. Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, and Alessandro Nivola star in the film.
The film was world premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on the 10th of September in 2017. On the 27th of April in 2018, Bleecker Street released the film in the United States. On the 30th of November in 2018, Curzon Artificial Eye released it in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The film was critically acclaimed. Critics praised the performances of Weisz, McAdams and Nivola, Lelio’s direction and the screenplay.
The film was a nominee in the British Independent Film Awards, GLAAD Media Awards and Dorian Awards, all for Best Picture.
Alessandro Nivola Age
He was born on the 28th of June in 1972. He was 46 years old as of 2018.
Alessandro Nivola Family
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born to Pietro Salvatore Nivola and Virginia Davis. His father was a professor of political science while his mother is an artist. His grandfather was the Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola, and his grandmother, Ruth Guggenheim, was a Jewish refugee from Germany. Nivola has been quoted describing his mother as “a WASP, from the South”. He has additionally in recent times stated that she is a relative of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. He has a brother named Adrian. His family also lived in Burlington, Vermont.
In January of 2003, he married British actress Emily Mortimer in Buckinghamshire. The couple has two children and lives in the Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, New York City.
Alessandro Nivola Films, Movies and TV Shows
Alessandro Nivola Movies
A list of movies that he has appeared in:
- Face/Off 1997
- Inventing the Abbotts 1997
- I Want You 1998
- Reach the Rock 1998
- Best Laid Plans 1999
- Mansfield Park 1999
- Love’s Labour’s Lost 2000
- Timecode 2000
- Jurassic Park III 2001
- Imprint 2002
- Laurel Canyon 2002
- Carolina 2003
- The Clearing 2004
- Junebug 2005
- The Sisters 2005
- Turning Green 2005
- Goal! 2005
- The Darwin Awards 2006
- Grace Is Gone 2007
- Goal! 2: Living the Dream 2007
- The Girl in the Park 2007
- The Eye 2008
- Five Dollars a Day 2008
- Who Do You Love? 2008
- Coco Before Chanel 2009
- Howl 2010
- Janie Jones 2010
- Ginger & Rosa 2012
- American Hustle 2013
- Devil’s Knot 2014
- Selma 2014
- A Most Violent Year 2014
- The Neon Demon 2016
- One Percent More Humid 2017
- You Were Never Really Here 2017
- Disobedience 2017
- To Dust 2018
- The Red Sea Diving Resort 2018
- The Art of Self-Defense 2018
Alessandro Nivola Films and TV Series
A list of TV series and or films he has appeared in
- Remember WENN 1996
- The Ring 1996
- The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery 1998
- The Company 2007
- Doll & Em 2015
- The Wizard of Lies 2017
Alessandro Nivola Plays
A list of plays he has appeared in
- “Master Harold”…and the Boys 1993
- A Month in the Country 1995
- As You Like It 1999
- A Lie of the Mind 2010
- The Elephant Man 2012
- The Winslow Boy 2013
- The Elephant Man 2014
- The Elephant Man 2015
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