Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor and producer, who has starred in feature films such as Face/Office, American Hustle and A Most Violent Year.
Background
Nivola was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His mother, Virginia (née Davis), is an artist, and his father, Pietro Salvatore Nivola, is a professor of political science. Nivola has described his mother as "a WASP, from the South", and has stated that she is a relative of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
Education
He has a brother, Adrian, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Yale University.
Career
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 appeared in the films The Devil"s Knot and A Most Violent Year (film).
He returned to the theater and starred in the 2010 Office-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 returned to Broadway in the fall of 2014 starring opposite Bradley Cooper in a revival of The Elephant Manitoba
Their first project was a six-part television series called Doll & Econometrica which Nivola produced and Mortimer wrote and starred in. The program aired on Sky Living in the United Kingdom and on Home Box Office in the United States in 2014.
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Quotations:
"a WASP, from the South".