Alessandro Nivola

Alessandro Nivola

1972-06-28 Boston, Massachusetts, USA 59 Credits

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Alessandro Antine Nivola (born June 28, 1972) is an American actor. He's best known for his roles as Pollux Troy in Face/Off, Detective Conley in the movie Boston Strangler, Detective Hiltz in Amsterdam, Dickie Moltisanti I.The Many Saints of Newark, photojournalist Lee Berger in the miniseries Chimerica, Governor Williams in You Were Never Really Here, Mark Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, Peter Forente in A Most Violent Year, Anthony Amado in American Hustle, Arthur "Boy" Capel in Coco Before Cha...

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Goal IV: Dreams Never End

2026

as Gavin Harris

Acting

Santiago Muñez, now a seasoned football manager, takes on a high-profile role at a top European club, where the star player is Mambinho, his Brazilian...

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

2025

Acting

When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of soc...

Fantasy Life

2025

Acting

After losing his job as a paralegal, Sam Stein suffers a panic attack and stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters. The...

The Brutalist

The Brutalist

2024

as Attila

7.0
Acting

When a visionary architect and his wife flee post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild their legacy and witness the birth of modern United States, their live...

Kraven the Hunter

Kraven the Hunter

2024

as Aleksei Sytsevich

6.5
Acting

Kraven Kravinoff's complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai, starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, moti...

The Room Next Door

The Room Next Door

2024

as Policeman

6.8
Acting

Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine. Ingrid went on to become an autofiction novelist ...

Wildcat

Wildcat

2024

as John Selby

6.2
Acting

Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her moth...

Boston Strangler

Boston Strangler

2023

as Detective Conley

6.7
Acting

Reporters Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole bravely pursue the story of the Boston Strangler at great personal risk, putting their own lives on the lin...

Amsterdam

Amsterdam

2022

as Detective Hiltz

6.1
Acting

In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plo...

Spin Me Round

Spin Me Round

2022

as Nick

5.0
Acting

When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she though...

With/In Volume 2

With/In Volume 2

2022

7.4
Acting

An anthology film that centres around relationships, love and family. A man misses his flight and instead finds love in quarantine, a lonely therapist...

The Many Saints of Newark

The Many Saints of Newark

2021

as Dickie Moltisanti

6.3
Acting

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise ...

With/In Volume 2

With/In Volume 2

2021

as (segment "Neighborhood Watch")

4.0
Acting

Giving creatives the chance to step outside the box while being confined to their own homes, the filmmakers behind With/In range from seasoned directo...

The Red Sea Diving Resort

The Red Sea Diving Resort

2019

as Sammy Navon

6.8
Acting

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. To do so, and to avoid r...

The Art of Self-Defense

The Art of Self-Defense

2019

as Sensei

6.6
Acting

Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend h...

To Dust

To Dust

2019

Producer

5.8
Producing

Shmuel, a Hasidic cantor in Upstate New York and distraught at the untimely death of his wife, struggles to find religious solace, while secretly obse...

Weightless

Weightless

2018

as Joel

5.1
Acting

An emotionally troubled man is forced to care for the obese 10-year-old son he has never met. Together they embark on a high-stakes journey to determi...

Disobedience

Disobedience

2018

as Dovid Kuperman

6.9
Acting

New York photographer Ronit flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish com...

You Were Never Really Here

You Were Never Really Here

2017

as Governor Williams

6.5
Acting

A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares begin to overtake...

The Wizard of Lies

The Wizard of Lies

2017

as Mark Madoff

6.6
Acting

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wak...

One Percent More Humid

One Percent More Humid

2017

as Gerald

4.7
Acting

A pair of childhood friends reunite during their summer break from college and deal with a traumatizing experience from their past.

The Neon Demon

The Neon Demon

2016

as Robert Sarno

6.5
Acting

When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necess...

Day Out of Days

Day Out of Days

2015

as Liam

4.8
Acting

In Los Angeles, a 40-year-old actress works to make it in the cutthroat business of Hollywood while contending with ever-youthful competition.

A Most Violent Year

A Most Violent Year

2014

as Peter Forente

6.6
Acting

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the live...

Selma

Selma

2014

as John Doar

7.4
Acting

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous stateme...

American Hustle

American Hustle

2013

as Anthony Amado

6.9
Acting

A conman and his seductive partner are forced to work for a wild FBI agent, who pushes them into a world of Jersey power-brokers and the Mafia.

Devil's Knot

Devil's Knot

2013

as Terry Hobbs

6.2
Acting

The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.

Ginger & Rosa

Ginger & Rosa

2012

as Roland

6.1
Acting

A look at the lives of two teenage girls - inseparable friends Ginger and Rosa -- growing up in 1960s London as the Cuban Missile Crisis looms, and th...

Janie Jones

Janie Jones

2010

as Ethan Brand

6.2
Acting

A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Howl

Howl

2010

as Luther Nichols

6.5
Acting

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the...

Coco Before Chanel

Coco Before Chanel

2009

as Arthur 'Boy' Capel

6.9
Acting

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel finds herself working in a provincial bar. She...

Who Do You Love

Who Do You Love

2008

as Leonard Chess

1.0
Acting

Who Do You Love is the life story of legendary record producer Leonard Chess, founder of Chess Records in Chicago, IL, the label that helped populariz...

$5 a Day

$5 a Day

2008

as Ritchie Flynn Parker

5.7
Acting

After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.

The Eye

The Eye

2008

as Dr. Paul Faulkner

5.9
Acting

Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while re...

Grace Is Gone

Grace Is Gone

2007

as John Philipps

6.5
Acting

Upon hearing his wife was killed in the Iraq war, a father takes his two daughters on a road trip, all the while searching for the right time and plac...

The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'

The Light and the Dark: The Making of 'Face/Off'

2007

as Self

Acting

A five-part documentary with interviews from the director, cast and crew, and some behind-scenes footage.

The Girl in the Park

The Girl in the Park

2007

as Chris

6.0
Acting

A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. Ho...

Goal II: Living the Dream

Goal II: Living the Dream

2007

as Gavin Harris

6.0
Acting

Tempted away from Newcastle United to join Real Madrid, rising star Santiago Munez finds this latest change of fortune the greatest challenge yet - pe...

The Darwin Awards

The Darwin Awards

2006

as Ad Exec

5.6
Acting

After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becom...

Goal!

Goal!

2005

as Gavin Harris

6.8
Acting

Like millions of kids around the world, Santiago harbors the dream of being a professional footballer... However, living in the Barrios section of Los...

Junebug

Junebug

2005

as George

6.6
Acting

On the way to meet with an independent artist in the South, newlywed art dealer Madeleine is convinced by her husband, George, that they should stop t...

Turning Green

Turning Green

2005

as Bill the Bookie

5.4
Acting

Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced t...

The Sisters

The Sisters

2005

as Andrew Prior

5.0
Acting

Based on Anton Chekov's "The Three Sisters" about siblings living in a college town who struggle with the death of their father and try to reconcile r...

The Clearing

The Clearing

2004

as Tim Hayes

5.8
Acting

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the ...

Carolina

Carolina

2003

as Albert Morris

5.8
Acting

A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.

Laurel Canyon

Laurel Canyon

2003

as Ian McKnight

6.0
Acting

When an uptight young man and his fiancée move into his libertine mother's house, the resulting clash of life attitudes shakes everyone up.

Jurassic Park III

Jurassic Park III

2001

as Billy Brennan

6.2
Acting

In need of funds for research, Dr. Alan Grant accepts a large sum of money to accompany Paul and Amanda Kirby on an aerial tour of the infamous Isla S...

Timecode

Timecode

2000

as Joey Z

5.6
Acting

A production company begins casting for its next feature, and an up-and-coming actress named Rose tries to manipulate her filmmaker boyfriend, Alex, i...

Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

2000

as The King (Ferdinand)

5.6
Acting

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and h...

Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park

1999

as Mr. Henry Crawford

6.7
Acting

Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a...

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery

1999

as Doug

5.1
Acting

A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until the FBI suspects, almost immediately, an inside job

Best Laid Plans

Best Laid Plans

1999

as Nick

5.7
Acting

Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really...

Reach the Rock

Reach the Rock

1998

as Robin

6.5
Acting

A small town troublemaker, directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief engage in a battle of w...

I Want You

I Want You

1998

as Martin

5.6
Acting

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

Face/Off

Face/Off

1997

as Pollux Troy

7.0
Acting

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns ...

Inventing the Abbotts

Inventing the Abbotts

1997

as Peter Vanlaningham

6.3
Acting

In the 1950s, brothers Jacey and Doug Holt, who come from the poorer side of their sleepy Midwestern town, vie for the affections of the wealthy, love...

The Ring

The Ring

1996

as Noel

5.2
Acting

During WW II, a young German woman is separated from her family and imprisoned by the Nazis. After being freed she falls in love with and marries a Ge...

Diamond Shitter

N/A

as David

Acting

In Geneva's wealthy international circles, privileged expatriates navigate their luxurious lives while dealing with personal dramas and hidden secrets...

Dennis

N/A

Producer

Producing

A British student and a Muscovite poet fall in love in the 1990s.