Alessandro Nivola
- Born: 28 Jun, 1972
This grandson of acclaimed Italian sculptor Constantino Nivola 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...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- grandfather Constantino Nivola: Sardinian; taught at Harvard in the 1950s; born on July 5, 1911; died in 1988 on Long Island, New York
- grandmother Ruth Nivola:
- father Pietro S Nivola: taught political science at Harvard
- mother : descendent of Jefferson Davis
- brother Adrian Nivola: younger
- Rachel Weisz: met during filming of "I Want You" in 1997; no longer together
- Emily Mortimer: met during filming of "Love's Labor's Lost"
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