Biography
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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Complete Filmography
Goal IV: Dreams Never End
2026
as Gavin Harris
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
2025
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
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
2024
as Attila
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
2024
as Aleksei Sytsevich
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
2024
as Policeman
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
2024
as John Selby
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
2023
as Detective Conley
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
2022
as Detective Hiltz
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
2022
as Nick
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
2022
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
2021
as Dickie Moltisanti
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
2021
as (segment "Neighborhood Watch")
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
2019
as Sammy Navon
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
2019
as Sensei
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
2019
Producer
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
2018
as Joel
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
2018
as Dovid Kuperman
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
2017
as Governor Williams
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
2017
as Mark Madoff
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
2017
as Gerald
A pair of childhood friends reunite during their summer break from college and deal with a traumatizing experience from their past.

The Neon Demon
2016
as Robert Sarno
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
2015
as Liam
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
2014
as Peter Forente
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
2014
as John Doar
"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
2013
as Anthony Amado
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
2013
as Terry Hobbs
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
2012
as Roland
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
2010
as Ethan Brand
A young girl who has been abandoned by her former-groupie mother informs a fading rock star that she is his daughter.

Howl
2010
as Luther Nichols
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
2009
as Arthur 'Boy' Capel
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
2008
as Leonard Chess
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
2008
as Ritchie Flynn Parker
After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.

The Eye
2008
as Dr. Paul Faulkner
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
2007
as John Philipps
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'
2007
as Self
A five-part documentary with interviews from the director, cast and crew, and some behind-scenes footage.

The Girl in the Park
2007
as Chris
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
2007
as Gavin Harris
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
2006
as Ad Exec
After botching the capture of a notorious serial killer, idiosyncratic detective Michael Burrows loses his job with the San Francisco Police. He becom...

Goal!
2005
as Gavin Harris
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
2005
as George
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
2005
as Bill the Bookie
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
2005
as Andrew Prior
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
2004
as Tim Hayes
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
2003
as Albert Morris
A young woman escapes her wildly eccentric family in search for a life of normalcy.

Laurel Canyon
2003
as Ian McKnight
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
2001
as Billy Brennan
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
2000
as Joey Z
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
2000
as The King (Ferdinand)
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
1999
as Mr. Henry Crawford
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
1999
as Doug
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
1999
as Nick
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
1998
as Robin
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
1998
as Martin
A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover.

Face/Off
1997
as Pollux Troy
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
1997
as Peter Vanlaningham
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
1996
as Noel
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
In Geneva's wealthy international circles, privileged expatriates navigate their luxurious lives while dealing with personal dramas and hidden secrets...
Dennis
N/A
Producer
A British student and a Muscovite poet fall in love in the 1990s.