Alessandro Nivola

Biography:

American actor Alessandro Antine Nivola was born on June 28, 1972. In addition to winning a British Independent Film Award (BIFA), a Screen Actors Guild Award, and the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, he has been nominated for both a Tony Award and an Independent Spirit Award.

He is the producer of King Bee Productions, which has produced the Independent Spirit Award-nominated feature picture To Dust and two seasons of the HBO comedy Doll & Em

The birthplace of Nivola is Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Pietro Salvatore Nivola, was a political science professor and senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, and his mother, Virginia (née Davis), is an artist.

Nivola’s paternal grandmother, Ruth Guggenheim, was a Jewish refugee from Germany, and his paternal grandpa, Costantino Nivola, was an Italian artist. His brother, painter Adrian Nivola, is five years younger than him. He was born the eldest of two sons.

Nivola went to Yale University and Phillips Exeter Academy. He attended the Sisters of Mercy’s Mater Christi School in Burlington, Vermont, where his family also resided