Sam Nivola

Samuel John Nivola (born September 26, 2003) is an American actor. He is the son of actors Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola.

Early life and education
Nivola was born in Portland Hospital, London, to British actress Emily Mortimer and American actor Alessandro Nivola. He has a younger sister, May (born 2010), who is also an actor. He grew up in the New York City neighborhood of Boerum Hill in Brooklyn. He attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn and then Columbia University.

Career
Nivola made his acting debut in the television series Doll & Em (2013), starring his mother. In 2021, he and his sister played siblings on an episode of The Pursuit of Love, a television miniseries written and directed by their mother. 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.

Nivola and his sister played two of the central family's children in Noah Baumbach's film White Noise (2022). 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. It was announced in January 2024 that he was cast in The White Lotus season three.