Family
brother:Adrian Nivola (Attended Phillips Exeter Academy, and earned a degree in English from Yale University)
father:Pietro S Nivola (Taught at Harvard; wrote the book Laws of the Landscape: How Policies Shape Cities in Europe and America)
grandfather:Constantino Nivola (Sardinian; taught at Harvard in the 1950s; born July 5, 1911; died in 1988)
grandmother:Ruth Nivola (Jewish refugee from Germany)
son:Sam Nivola (Born Sep. 26, 2003; mother, Emily Mortimer)
wife:Emily Mortimer (Met during filming of "Love's Labor's Lost" (2000); married Jan. 3, 2003)
Companion(s)
Rachel Weisz
, Companion
, ```..Met during filming of "I Want You" (1997); no longer together
2008 Co-starred with Jessica Alba in the supernatural thriller, "The Eye"
2007 Reprised role for the sequel, "Goal! 2: Living the Dream..."
2006 Played a British football (soccer) player in Danny Cannon's "Goal! The Dream Begins"
2005 Co-starred in the independent southern drama "Junebug"; premiered at Sundance
2004 Starred opposite Robert Redford and Helen Mirren in "The Clearing"
2003 Cast opposite Julia Stiles in the romantic comedy "Carolina"
2002 Played a rock singer involved with his record producer, played by Frances McDormand, in "Laurel Canyon"; received Independent Spirit Award nomination for best supporting male
2001 Had featured role in "Jurassic Park III" the third film of the Jurassic Park film series
1999 Starred opposite Reese Witherspoon in "Best Laid Plans"
1999 Returned to the stage, starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of "As You Like It"
1999 Played the King of Navarre in Kenneth Branagh's musicalized version of Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost"
1998 Adopted a British accent to play a mystery man from former girlfriend Rachel Weisz's past in "I Want You"
1997 First film role as Joanna Going's preppy husband in "Inventing the Abbotts"
1997 Breakthrough screen role as Nicolas Cage's paranoid schizophrenic brother in John Woo's "Face/Off"
1996 TV acting debut in the NBC miniseries "Danielle Steel's The Ring"
1996 Filmed role in support of Brooke Shields in the TV-movie "The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery" (aired in summer 1999)
1995 Broadway debut as the young lover of Helen Mirren in "A Month in the Country"
1994 Received generally strong notices for his performance as a young Brit in the Long Wharf Theater production of "Paddywack"
As a teenager, worked as an intern at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, CT
Early professional role in Seattle production of "Master Harold...and the Boys"; landed part while still a student at Yale
