FrameThrower · Actors · Alessandro Nivola
Alessandro Nivola
14 films · 992 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1998–2024
Born 28 June 1972 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Alessandro Antine Nivola is an American actor. His best-known roles include Pollux Troy in Face/Off (1997), Henry Crawford in Mansfield Park (1999), Billy Brennan in Jurassic Park III (2001), Arthur "Boy" Capel in Coco Before Chanel (2009), Anthony Amado in American Hustle (2013), Peter Forente in A Most Violent Year (2014), Governor Williams in You Were Never Really Here (2017), Mark Madoff in The Wizard of Lies (2017), photojournalist Lee Berger in the miniseries Chimerica (2019), Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints of Newark (2021), Detective Hiltz in Amsterdam (2022), and Detective Conley in Boston Strangler (2023).
He has been married to actress Emily Mortimer since 2003; they have two children.
How their films are shot
Measured across 992 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alessandro takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 14 films we hold, 46% of their frames are night, 48% low key — the look of the work Alessandro takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
The Many Saints of Newark
2021 · Dickie Moltisanti
The Art of Self Defence
2019 · Sensei
I Want You
1998 · Martin
Kraven the Hunter
2024 · Aleksei Sytsevich
The Brutalist
2024 · Attila
Boston Strangler
2023 · Detective Conley
Amsterdam
2022 · Detective Hiltz
You Were Never Really Here
2017 · Governor Williams
The Neon Demon
2016 · Robert Sarno
A Most Violent Year
2014 · Peter Forente
American Hustle
2013 · Anthony Amado
Ginger & Rosa
2012 · Roland
Junebug
2005 · George
Jurassic Park III
2001 · Billy Brennan
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 992 frames from Alessandro Nivola's 14 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.