Sam Nivola

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Sam Nivola
Born
Samuel John Nivola [1]

(2003-09-26) September 26, 2003 (age 20) [2]
London, England
Citizenship
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
OccupationActor
Parents

Samuel John Nivola (born September 26, 2003) is an American actor. He is the son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola.

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Early life and education

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]

Career

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]

Filmography

Film

Year(s)TitleRoleNotes
2021 River of Fundament Kidsroom Ensemble
2021Neighborhood Watch (in With/In )
Short film; also writer and director
2022 White Noise Heinrich
2023 Eileen Lee Polk
2023 Maestro Alexander Bernstein

Television

Year(s)TitleRoleNotes
2013 Doll & Em ArielEpisode: "Six"
2021 The Pursuit of Love MattEpisode: "Episode Two"

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