Alessandro Nivola Net Worth

What is Alessandro Nivola’s Net Worth?

Alessandro Nivola is an American actor who has a net worth of $8 million. That is a combined net worth with his wife, Emily Mortimer. They’ve been married since 2003.

Alessandro Nivola has acted in numerous films and television programs, with credits including the films “Junebug,” “American Hustle,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Disobedience,” and “The Brutalist” and such television series as “Doll & Em,” “Black Narcissus,” and “The Big Cigar.” Nivola has also appeared on stage, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his work in the 2014 Broadway revival of “The Elephant Man.”

Early Life and Education

Alessandro Nivola was born on June 28, 1972, in Boston, Massachusetts, as the elder son of artist Virginia and political science professor Pietro. He and his younger brother Adrian have Italian and Jewish German ancestry on their father’s side. Nivola grew up in a few different cities, dividing his time between Boston, Burlington, Vermont, and Washington, DC. In Burlington, he attended the Mater Christi School. Nivola went on to attend Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, followed by Yale University in Connecticut. He graduated from Yale in 1994 with a BA in English.

Film Career

Nivola made his big-screen debut in 1997 with a supporting role in the period coming-of-age film “Inventing the Abbotts.” He had a bigger role later that year, playing the brother of Nicolas Cage’s character in John Woo’s science-fiction action film “Face/Off.” Nivola subsequently had his first two starring roles in 1998: in the crime film “I Want You” and the prison dramedy “Reach the Rock.” The following year, he starred in the crime drama “Best Laid Plans” and played Henry Crawford in Patricia Rozema’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Mansfield Park.” In his first film of the new millennium, Nivola starred as King Ferdinand of Navarre in Kenneth Branagh’s modern reimagining of Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” He went on to act in “Timecode,” “Jurassic Park III,” “Laurel Canyon,” “Carolina,” and “The Clearing.” Nivola had one of his most prolific years in 2005, appearing in four films: “Junebug,” “The Sisters,” “Turning Green,” and “Goal!” Over the remainder of the decade, he was in such films as “Grace is Gone,” “The Girl in the Park,” “The Eye,” “Who Do You Love?,” and “Coco Before Chanel.”

Kicking off the 2010s, Nivola appeared in the dramas “Howl” and “Janie Jones.” In 2012, he was in “Ginger & Rosa,” and in 2013 he was in David O. Russell’s “American Hustle,” for which he shared the SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. Nivola appeared in more acclaimed films in 2014, including Ava DuVernay’s “Selma” and J. C. Chandor’s “A Most Violent Year.” In the second half of the decade, his credits included “The Neon Demon,” “One Percent More Humid,” “You Were Never Really Here,” “Disobedience,” “Weightless,” and “The Art of Self-Defense.” In his first big role of the 2020s, Nivola played protagonist Dickie Moltisanti in “The Many Saints of Newark,” a prequel to the television series “The Sopranos.” It came out in 2021. Over the next two years, he appeared in “Spin Me Round,” “Amsterdam,” “Boston Strangler,” and “Wildcat.” Nivola had a notable year in 2024, when he appeared in the award-winning films “The Brutalist” and “The Room Next Door” and played the villainous Rhino in the Marvel superhero film “Kraven the Hunter.” He was subsequently in “Fantasy Life” and “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” in 2025.

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Television Career

Nivola first appeared on the small screen in 1996, in an episode of “Remember WENN” and then in the NBC television film “The Ring.” He didn’t act much on television over the next decade. In 2007, Nivola returned with a role in the TNT miniseries “The Company,” based on Robert Littell’s novel of the same name. Following another considerable break, Nivola produced and acted on the British comedy series “Doll & Em,” which ran from 2014 to 2015. In 2017, he portrayed Mark Madoff in the HBO biographical television film “The Wizard of Lies.” Concluding the decade, Nivola starred in the four-part Channel 4 drama “Chimerica,” based on the play by Lucy Kirkwood. In late 2020, he played Mr. Dean in a miniseries adaptation of “Black Narcissus,” and in 2022 he voiced Richard Brooks and Robert Redford in the documentary miniseries “The Last Movie Stars.” Nivola’s subsequent credits include the 2024 Apple TV+ biographical miniseries “The Big Cigar,” in which he portrays film and television producer Bert Schneider.

Theater Career

In 1995, Nivola made his Broadway debut in a production of “A Month in the Country,” co-starring Helen Mirren. For his work, he earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play. Elsewhere, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, Nivola starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in “As You Like It.” He returned to the New York stage in 2010 to star in an off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s “A Lie of the Mind.” Two years later, back at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Nivola portrayed Sir Frederick Treves in “The Elephant Man.” He went on to reprise his role in both the Broadway and West End revivals of the show in 2014 and 2015, respectively, and earned a Tony Award nomination for his work on Broadway.

Personal Life

In early 2003, Nivola married actress Emily Mortimer. Together, they have a son named Sam and a daughter named May, both of whom act. Nivola and Mortimer have a production company called King Bee Productions.