Alessandro Nivola

He will next be seen as Dickie Moltisanti, the lead role in The Many Saints of Newark, David Chase’s feature film prequel to his heralded television series The Sopranos.

Nivola has also worked frequently in television, starring opposite Robert DeNiro in Barry Levinson’s Madoff family biopic The Wizard of Lies (2017), as well as the TNT miniseries The Company (2007), the UK Chanel 4 series Chimerica (2019), the Netflix film The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019), and the upcoming BBC series Black Narcissus.

He has starred in Hollywood blockbusters such as Face/Off, Jurassic Park III and the upcoming Sopranos feature film prequel The Many Saints of Newark, as well as in critically acclaimed independent films, among them Disobedience, A Most Violent Year, Junebug and Laurel Canyon. He has also starred three times on Broadway, most recently opposite Bradley Cooper in the 2014 revival of The Elephant Man which earned him a Tony Award nomination.

On stage, in addition to A Month in the Country, he starred on Broadway in 2013 in The Winslow Boy (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), and in 2014 in The Elephant Man opposite Bradley Cooper (Tony Award nomination), and off-Broadway in the Ethan Hawke directed Sam Shepard play A Lie of the Mind (2010) with Laurie Metcalfe. He also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1995 Williamstown Theater Festival production of Shakespeare's As You Like It.

In 2013 Nivola established King Bee Productions with his wife Emily Mortimer. The company produced two seasons of the half hour comedy Doll & Em for HBO and BSkyB. He also produced To Dust starring Matthew Broderick which won the Audience Award at the 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival and was nominated for a 2020 Independent Spirit Award.

Nivola married British actress Emily Mortimer in Buckinghamshire in January 2003. The couple have two children and live in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Nivola became a British citizen as Mortimer became an American citizen.

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).

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 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.