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Alessandro Nivola is an American actor (born in Boston, Massachusetts on June 28, 1972).

Nivola is the grandson of acclaimed Italian sculptor, Constantino Nivola, and has a brother, Adrian. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and earned a degree in English from Yale.

He began his acting career while still an undergraduate at Yale, landing the plum leading role in a Seattle production of Athol Fugard's Master Harold... and the Boys. After college, Alessandro Nivola became a rising stage star thanks to his work in regional theater and his 1995 Broadway debut as the young lover of Helen Mirren in A Month in the Country. Inevitably, film and television roles were offered; the handsome, light-haired actor 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 landing his breakthrough part as Nicolas Cage's paranoid schizophrenic brother in John Woo's Face/Off
(both in 1997).

Nivola adopted a flawless British accent to play a mystery man from former girlfriend Rachel Weisz's past in I Want You (1998), directed by Michael Winterbottom. The chameleonic actor continued to add to his gallery of characters appearing in the thriller Best Laid Plans and again as an Englishman in Patricia Rozema's screen version of yet another Jane Austen novel, Mansfield Park, both in 1999. He played a rock singer involved with his manager, played by Frances McDormand in the film Lauren Canyon.

He is married to actress Emily Mortimer; the couple have a son, born in 2003.

Filmography

Goal! 2 (in production)
The Sisters (in production)
Goal!
(2005)
Junebug (2005)
The Clearing
(2004)
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Jurassic Park III
(2001)
Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Timecode (2000)
Mansfield Park (1999)
Reach the Rock (1998)
Face/Off
(1997)
Inventing the Abbotts
(1997)
Best Laid Plans
Carolina
I Want You

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