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Sam Nivola
American actor (born 2003) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel John Nivola[1] (born September 26, 2003)[2] is an American and British actor. He is the son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola. He has featured in the films White Noise (2022) and Eileen (2023),[3] season one of the anthology series The Perfect Couple (2024), and season three of the anthology series The White Lotus (2025).
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Early life and education
Nivola was born at the Portland Hospital in central London to British actress Emily Mortimer and American actor Alessandro Nivola.[1][2] He has Italian and German-Jewish ancestry on his father's side.[4][5] His maternal grandfather is dramatist Sir John Mortimer.
He has a younger sister May (born 2010), who also acts.[1][6] Nivola spent his early childhood in Notting Hill[7] and subsequently grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Boerum Hill in Brooklyn. He attended Saint Ann's School and then Columbia University.[8]
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Career
Nivola made his acting debut in the Sky Atlantic comedy series Doll & Em (2013), starring his mother.[9] In 2021, he and his sister played siblings on an episode of The Pursuit of Love, a British miniseries based on Nancy Mitford's novel of the same title adapted by their mother for BBC One.[8][10] 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.[9][11]
Nivola and his sister played two of the central family's children in Noah Baumbach's film White Noise (2022).[12] 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.[8] The next year, Nivola played the son of Leonard Bernstein in Bradley Cooper's Maestro.[13] Also in 2023, Nivola walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week for Miu Miu alongside the likes of Emma Corrin.[14]
In 2024, he starred in The Perfect Couple. The following year, Nivola starred in season three of The White Lotus.[15] In March 2025, he began filming the Bobby Farrelly comedy film Driver's Ed.[16]
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Personal life
He has been in a relationship with Iris Apatow since 2024. She visited him on the set of The White Lotus. The couple live together in an apartment in New York, and have a cat named Kumo.[17]
Filmography
Film
Television
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