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Born | Alessandro Antine Nivola June 28, 1972 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1993–present |
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Children | 2, including Sam |
Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972)[1] is an American actor. Known for his roles on stage and screen, he has received several nominations including for a Tony Award and an Independent Spirit Award and has won a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Nivola made his acting film debut in Face/Off (1997) and has since acted in films such as Mansfield Park (1999), Jurassic Park III (2001), Laurel Canyon (2002), Junebug (2005), Coco Before Chanel (2009), Ginger & Rosa (2012), American Hustle (2013), Selma (2014), A Most Violent Year (2014), Disobedience (2017), You Were Never Really Here (2017), The Art of Self-Defense (2019), Boston Strangler (2023), The Room Next Door (2024), and The Brutalist (2024). He portrayed Aleksei Sytsevich / Rhino in the Marvel superhero film Kraven the Hunter (2024).
He founded the production company, King Bee Productions with his wife Emily Mortimer in 2013. On television, he acted in and produced the HBO comedy Doll & Em (2015), and has portrayed Mark Madoff in the HBO television film The Wizard of Lies (2017), Mr. Dean in the FX / BBC One series Black Narcissus (2020) and Bert Schneider in the Apple TV+ thriller miniseries The Big Cigar (2024).
On stage, he made his Broadway debut in the play A Month in the Country (1995) for which he was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. He returned to Broadway acting in the revivals of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy (2012), and Bernard Pomerance's The Elephant Man earning a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play nomination for the later.
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