Alessandro Nivola Biography

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Alessandro Nivola in Touchstone Pictures' Goal! The Dream Begins - 2005

Birth Date: June 28, 1972

Birth Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Alessandro Nivola's first professional leading role earned him a Drama Desk Award Nomination for his performance opposite Helen Mirren on Broadway in Turgenev's “A Month in the Country.” The following year he drew critical acclaim and a Blockbuster Award Nomination for playing Nicolas Cage's paranoid genius younger brother in John Woo's “Face/Off.”

A series of roles in English movies followed, establishing him as one of the few Americans capable of playing British characters from all regions and classes. He starred as a Hastings fisherman opposite Rachel Weisz in Michael Winterbottom's “I Want You,” played the charming cad in the Patricia Rozema adaptation of Jane Austen's “Mansfield Park,” and the romantic King Ferdinand of Navarre in Kenneth Branagh's musical film of Shakespeare's “Love's Labour's Lost.” Back in the U.S. he starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in “Best Laid Plans,” and played leading roles in “Jurassic Park 3” and Mike Figgis' “Time Code.”

He returned to the theater to play Orlando to Gwyneth Paltrow's Rosalind in “As You Like It” at Williamstown, before being reunited with Helen Mirren in Peter Jan Brugge's film “The Clearing,” where he played Robert Redford's son. Last year, he earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for his performance as the rock singer Ian McNight in Lisa Cholodenko's “Laurel Canyon.” Apart from seducing both Kate Beckinsale and Frances McDormand in the film, he recorded the character's songs himself; prompting Vogue magazine to write, “He sings Brit pop well enough to get a record deal.”

His upcoming films include “Junebug,” which premiered in competition at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival, as well as at Cannes and will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. In the fall he will star opposite Selma Blair in a film adaptation of the Martin Amis novel “Success” before heading to Madrid to begin “Goal 2.” In August, he has the honor of being on the jury for the 2005 Edinburgh Film Festival. He is a graduate of Yale University with a BA in English.

Alessandro Nivola Filmography

Goal! 2 (2007) Gavin

Grace is Gone (2007)

The Eye (Remake) (2007)

Goal! The Dream Begins (2006) Gavin Harris

The Darwin Awards (2006)

The Sisters (2006) Andrew Prior

Junebug (2005) George

Turning Green (2005)

Carolina (2004)

The Clearing (2004) Tim Hayes

Laurel Canyon (2003) Ian