Sam Nivola

{{Infobox person

| name = Sam Nivola

| birth_name = Samuel John Nivola

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|2003|9|26}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date =

| death_place =

| citizenship = {{ubl|United Kingdom|United States}}

| occupation = Actor

| parents = {{Ublist|Emily Mortimer (mother)|Alessandro Nivola (father)}}

| education = Columbia University

| relatives = John Mortimer (maternal grandfather)

}}

Samuel John Nivola{{cite web |url=https://people.com/parents/alessandro-nivola-kids-many-saints-of-newark-sopranos-us-open-exclusive |title=Why Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer Are 'Green with Envy' Over Their Kids' Next Big Movie Gig |last=VanHoose |first=Benjamin |date=2021-09-11 |magazine=People |access-date=2024-03-08}} (born September 26, 2003){{cite web |url=https://newspapers.com/article/the-independent-mortimer/142988824 |title=First child for young British film star |date=2003-09-30 |work=The Independent |via=Newspapers.com |page=17}} 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),{{Cite web|url=https://www.themediaeye.com/News/9add6d6e-e343-4076-b00c-b10800f5ebbb|title=Rising Stars: Sam Nivola|website=The Media Eye|date=31 January 2024|accessdate=26 August 2024}} season one of the anthology series The Perfect Couple (2024), and season three of the anthology series The White Lotus (2025).

Early life and education

Nivola was born at the Portland Hospital in central London to British actress Emily Mortimer and American actor Alessandro Nivola. He has Italian and German-Jewish ancestry on his father's side.{{Cite news |last=Elias |first=Justine |date=1998-09-13 |title=THE NEW SEASON/FILM: UP AND COMING: Alessandro Nivola; From a Family of Painters, a Quick-Change Artist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/13/movies/new-season-film-up-coming-alessandro-nivola-family-painters-quick-change-artist.html |access-date=2025-03-18 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2018-04-30 |title=Interview: Alessandro Nivola on Playing the Conflicted Dovid in Disobedience – Awards Daily |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430202747/http://www.awardsdaily.com/2018/04/25/interview-alessandro-nivola-on-playing-the-conflicted-dovid-in-disobedience/ |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=web.archive.org}} His maternal grandfather is dramatist Sir John Mortimer.

He has a younger sister May (born 2010), who also acts.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/feb/07/emily-mortimer-interview-martin-scorsese|title='Sometimes I think this is so undignified'|last=Wood|first=Gaby|date=2010-02-06|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=2024-03-09}} Nivola spent his early childhood in Notting Hill{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/13/style/IHT-whats-in-an-accent-a-different-career.html|title=What's in an accent? A different career|work=International Herald Tribune|first=Matt|last=Wolf|date=13 November 2003|accessdate=26 August 2024}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/12/the-nivola-kids-enter-the-family-business|title=The Nivola Kids Enter the Family Business|last=Schulman|first=Michael|date=2022-12-05|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=2024-03-08}}

Career

Nivola made his acting debut in the Sky Atlantic comedy series Doll & Em (2013), starring his mother.{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/raffey-cassidy-sam-and-may-nivola-noah-baumbachs-white-noise-1234734281/|title=Raffey Cassidy And Sam And May Nivola Join Noah Baumbach's Next Film 'White Noise'|last=Kroll|first=Justin|date=2021-04-14|website=Deadline|access-date=2024-03-09}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/sam_nivola/|title=Sam Nivola|website=British Comedy Guide|accessdate=26 August 2024}} 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.{{cite news|url=https://tribecafilm.com/films/with-in-vol-ii-2021|title=With/In Vol II|publisher=Tribeca Festival|access-date=2024-03-09|date=2021}}

Nivola and his sister played two of the central family's children in Noah Baumbach's film White Noise (2022).{{cite news|url=https://time.com/6210263/white-noise-review/|title=Venice Review: Noah Baumbach's White Noise Is a Lot of Talking With Not So Much to Say|date=2022-09-02|last=Zacharek|first=Stephanie|magazine=Time|access-date=2024-03-08}} 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. The next year, Nivola played the son of Leonard Bernstein in Bradley Cooper's Maestro.{{cite news|url=https://vmagazine.com/article/the-next-act-by-hedi-slimane/|title=The Next Act by Hedi Slimane – Sam Nivola|last=Marrison|first=Erica|date=2023-05-11|magazine=V|access-date=2024-03-08}} Also in 2023, Nivola walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week for Miu Miu alongside the likes of Emma Corrin.{{Cite web|url=https://rain-mag.com/miu-miu-fall-winter-2023/|title=Miu Miu fall winter 2023|work=Rain Magazine|date=8 March 2023|accessdate=26 August 2024}}

In 2024, he starred in The Perfect Couple. The following year, Nivola starred in season three of The White Lotus.{{cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2024/01/the-white-lotus-season-3-cast-walton-goggins-aimee-lou-wood-patrick-schwarzenegger-sarah-catherine-hook-sam-nivola-1235794534/|title='White Lotus': Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook & Sam Nivola Join Season 3 Cast|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=2024-01-16|website=Deadline|access-date=2024-03-08}} In March 2025, he began filming the Bobby Farrelly comedy film Driver's Ed.{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2025/03/drivers-ed-movie-casts-sophie-telegadis-mohana-krishnan-more-1236305884/|website=Deadline Hollywood|accessdate=26 March 2025|title= Sophie Telegadis, Mohana Krishnan, Aidan Laprete & Lilah Pate Round Out Cast Of Bobby Farrelly’s ‘Driver’s Ed’|date=3 March 2025|first=Matt|last=Grobar}}

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.https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/sam-nivola-nepo-baby-white-lotus-girlfriend-iris-apatow-b1219435.html#:~:text=Sam%20Nivola%20and%20Iris%20Apatow%20have%20been%20publicly%20dating%20since,seeing%20each%20other%20before%20this.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
Year(s) ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
style="text-align:center;"\|2014 !scope=row\|River of Fundament \|Kidsroom Ensemble \|
style="text-align:center;"\|2021 !scope=row\|Neighborhood Watch (in With/In) \|{{Clear}} \|Short film; also writer and director
style="text-align:center;"\|2022 !scope=row\|White Noise \|Heinrich \|
style="text-align:center;"\|2023 !scope=row\|Eileen \|Lee Polk \|
style="text-align:center;"\|2023 !scope=row\|Maestro \|Alexander Bernstein \|
style="text-align:center;"\|TBA \| {{Pending film\|Driver's Ed}} \|{{TableTBA}} \| Filming{{cite web\|url= https://deadline.com/2025/03/drivers-ed-movie-casts-sophie-telegadis-mohana-krishnan-more-1236305884/\|website=Deadline Hollywood\|accessdate=26 March 2025\|title= Sophie Telegadis, Mohana Krishnan, Aidan Laprete & Lilah Pate Round Out Cast Of Bobby Farrelly’s ‘Driver’s Ed’\|date=3 March 2025\|first=Matt\|last=Grobar}}

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

Year(s)

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

style="text-align:center;"|2014

!scope=row|River of Fundament

|Kidsroom Ensemble

style="text-align:center;"|2021

!scope=row|Neighborhood Watch (in With/In)

|{{Clear}}

|Short film; also writer and director

style="text-align:center;"|2022

!scope=row|White Noise

|Heinrich

style="text-align:center;"|2023

!scope=row|Eileen

|Lee Polk

style="text-align:center;"|2023

!scope=row|Maestro

|Alexander Bernstein

style="text-align:center;"|TBA

| {{Pending film|Driver's Ed}}

|{{TableTBA}}

| Filming{{cite web|url= https://deadline.com/2025/03/drivers-ed-movie-casts-sophie-telegadis-mohana-krishnan-more-1236305884/|website=Deadline Hollywood|accessdate=26 March 2025|title= Sophie Telegadis, Mohana Krishnan, Aidan Laprete & Lilah Pate Round Out Cast Of Bobby Farrelly’s ‘Driver’s Ed’|date=3 March 2025|first=Matt|last=Grobar}}

=Television=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"
Year(s) ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" \| Notes
style="text-align:center;"\|2013 !scope=row\|Doll & Em \|Ariel \|Episode: "Six"
style="text-align:center;"\|2021 !scope=row\|{{sort name\|The\|Pursuit of Love\|dab=TV series}} \|Matt \|Episode: "Episode Two"
style="text-align:center;"\|2024 !scope=row\|The Perfect Couple \|Will Winbury \|Main role; season 1{{Cite web \|last=Gomez \|first=Dessi \|date=March 31, 2023 \|title=Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber to Lead Netflix Limited Series ‘The Perfect Couple’ \|url=https://www.thewrap.com/nicole-kidman-liev-schreiber-netflix-the-perfect-couple/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331193927/https://www.thewrap.com/nicole-kidman-liev-schreiber-netflix-the-perfect-couple/ \|archive-date=March 31, 2023 \|access-date=March 31, 2023 \|website=TheWrap}}
style="text-align:center;"\|2025 !scope=row\|''The White Lotus \|Lochlan Ratliff \|Main role; season 3{{cite web \|url=https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/season-three-of-the-sky-exclusive-series-the-white-lotus-from-mike-white-debuts-17-february \|title=Season three of the Sky Exclusive series The White Lotus, from Mike White debuts 17 February \|website=Sky Group \|date=December 16, 2024 \|access-date=January 30, 2024}}

class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable"

Year(s)

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

style="text-align:center;"|2013

!scope=row|Doll & Em

|Ariel

|Episode: "Six"

style="text-align:center;"|2021

!scope=row|{{sort name|The|Pursuit of Love|dab=TV series}}

|Matt

|Episode: "Episode Two"

style="text-align:center;"|2024

!scope=row|The Perfect Couple

|Will Winbury

|Main role; season 1{{Cite web |last=Gomez |first=Dessi |date=March 31, 2023 |title=Nicole Kidman and Liev Schreiber to Lead Netflix Limited Series ‘The Perfect Couple’ |url=https://www.thewrap.com/nicole-kidman-liev-schreiber-netflix-the-perfect-couple/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331193927/https://www.thewrap.com/nicole-kidman-liev-schreiber-netflix-the-perfect-couple/ |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |website=TheWrap}}

style="text-align:center;"|2025

!scope=row|''The White Lotus

|Lochlan Ratliff

|Main role; season 3{{cite web |url=https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/season-three-of-the-sky-exclusive-series-the-white-lotus-from-mike-white-debuts-17-february |title=Season three of the Sky Exclusive series The White Lotus, from Mike White debuts 17 February |website=Sky Group |date=December 16, 2024 |access-date=January 30, 2024}}