Sam Nivola | |
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Born | Samuel John Nivola[1] September 26, 2003[2] London, England |
Occupation | Actor |
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Samuel John Nivola (born September 26, 2003) is a British-American actor. He is the son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola.
Nivola was born in Portland Hospital, London, to British actress Emily Mortimer and American actor Alessandro Nivola.[1][2] He has a younger sister, May (born 2010), who is also an actor.[1][3] He grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Boerum Hill in Brooklyn.[4] He attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn and then Columbia University.[4]
Nivola made his acting debut in the television series Doll & Em (2013), starring his mother.[5] In 2021, he and his sister played siblings on an episode of The Pursuit of Love, a television miniseries written and directed by their mother.[4][5] Nivola wrote and directed a short film, Neighborhood Watch, for the anthology With/In (2021), which consisted of films shot on smartphones about life in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.[5][6]
Nivola and his sister played two of the central family's children in Noah Baumbach's film White Noise (2022).[7] At the callback audition for White Noise, Baumbach had asked Nivola if his sister wanted to audition for the role she eventually played in the film.[4] The next year, Nivola played the son of Leonard Bernstein in Bradley Cooper's Maestro.[8] It was announced in January 2024 that he was cast in The White Lotus season three.[9]
Year(s) | Title | Role | Notes |
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2021 | River of Fundament | Kidsroom Ensemble | |
2021 | Neighborhood Watch (in With/In) | Short film; also writer and director | |
2022 | White Noise | Heinrich | |
2023 | Eileen | Lee Polk | |
2023 | Maestro | Alexander Bernstein |
Year(s) | Title | Role | Notes |
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2013 | Doll & Em | Ariel | Episode: "Six" |
2021 | The Pursuit of Love | Matt | Episode: "Episode Two" |