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Nepo baby with Hollywood star parents walks the red carpet after landing role in White Lotus – do you know who he is?
While his name might not yet be widely known, his Hollywood lineage certainly is
NEPO baby Sam Nivola walked The White Lotus red carpet yesterday after landing a role in the U.S. smash hit - but do you know who he is?
Sam, 21, is the latest rising star to join HBO’s comedy-drama as the hit series heads to Thailand for its highly anticipated third season.
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But while his name might not yet be widely known, his Hollywood lineage certainly is.
Sam looked suave in an ovesized brown suit with a flared trouser while posing outside the Paramount Theater in Los Angeles.
Born in Britain but raised in the U.S., Sam spent his early years in Notting Hill, London, before moving to Brooklyn, New York.
There, he attended the prestigious Saint Ann’s School, where fees range from $48,000 to $52,000 per year, before securing a place at Columbia University.
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Sam got his first taste of acting in 2013 on HBO’s Doll & Em, playing the role of Ariel.
But his big break wasn’t exactly a coincidence - his mother Emily Mortimer co-wrote the series.
His father Alessandro Nivola has starred in The Brutalist, American Hustle and Disobedience.
But despite his Hollywood connections, he insists his parents “aren’t, like, total celebrities", insisting: "They don’t get recognised in the street.”
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Emily and Alessandro have been together for over 24 years, tying the knot in 2003 after meeting on the set of Love’s Labour’s Lost.
Their children have followed in their footsteps - Sam’s younger sister, May, 14, is also an actress, starring alongside him in White Noise, which opened the Venice Film Festival.
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Director Noah Baumbach previously praised the siblings, saying: “We were looking for kids and went through audition after audition, and these two Nivola kids kept on coming up to the surface. They were just so wonderful.”
Sam also starred in The Pursuit of Love, which was directed by his mother, and has worked with A-listers like Bradley Cooper in Maestro and Nicole Kidman in Netflix’s The Perfect Couple.
Away from the screen, Sam has been dating fellow nepo baby Iris Apatow, daughter of actress Leslie Mann and director Judd Apatow, for the past two years.
She even joined him at the screening, placing a loving around around her beau while donning a white striped minidress.
Joking about his circle of celebrity offspring, Sam told : “Some secret cabal of nepo kids who hang out in black robes.”
Despite his connections, Sam admitted he never thought he’d land his role in The White Lotus, saying: “I’ve never felt more certain that I wasn’t gonna get a part.”
But now, with his biggest role yet in the award-winning HBO hit, Sam Nivola is set to step out of his parents’ shadow and make a name for himself.
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