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