Alessandro Nivola's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Company Leo Kritzky Soccer Aid (UK) Himself - R…

Main Movie Roles 2009 - Coco avant Chanel 2008 - The Eye 2007 - The Girl in the Park 2007 - Goal II: Living the Dream 2007 - Grace is Gone 2006 - The Darwin Awards 2005 - Junebug 2004 - The Clearing 2001 - Jurassic Park III 2000 - Timecode 1999 - Mansfield Park 1999 - Best Laid Plans 1997 - Inventing the Abbotts 1997 - Face/Off

BIOGRAPHY:

Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles in the films Coco Before Chanel, Best Laid Plans, Jurassic Park III, Face/Off, and the first two films of the Goal! trilogy.
Personal life 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 who wrote the book Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America.[1][2][3][4] Nivola's paternal grandfather was the Italian sculptor Costantino Nivola, and his paternal grandmother, Ruth Guggenheim,[5] was a Jewish refugee from Germany.[6] Nivola has described his mother as "a WASP, from the South",[7][8] a descendant of Jefferson Davis.[9] He has a brother, Adrian, and attended Phillips Exeter Academy.
Nivola married British actress Emily Mortimer in the Chilterns, Buckinghamshire in January 2003; the couple have a son, Samuel John, born in Westminster, London,[10] on September 23, 2003. They also have a daughter, May, born on January 15, 2010. They used to live in Los Angeles California in Echo Park. They are currently living in Boerum Hill in Brooklyn, New York. He had fellow actor Heath Ledger as a neighbor.
Career Nivola began his acting career while still an undergraduate at Yale, landing the leading role in a Seattle production of Athol Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys. After college, Nivola debuted on Broadway in 1995 as the young lover of Helen Mirren in A Month in the Country. The next year he appeared in the 1996 NBC miniseries Danielle Steel's The Ring and landed his first film role as Joanna Going's preppy husband in Inventing the Abbotts before being cast as Nicolas Cage's paranoid sociopath brother in John Woo's Face/Off (both in 1997).




TRIVIA:

• Is a huge soccer fan.
• Attended Phillips Exeter Academy high school.
• Older brother of Adrian Nivola, who also went to Yale
• Dated actress 'Rachel Weisz' (qv).
• Educated at Yale University and received his degree in English.
• Son, Sam Nivola, was born September 26, 2003, with 'Emily Mortimer' (qv).
• His father, Pietro, is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
• Son-in-law of writer John Mortimer.