Sam Nivola Uses This Lesson from Parents Alessandro Nivola, Emily Mortimer's Marriage in Relationship with Iris Apatow (Exclusive) Brendan LeSeptember 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM 0 Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty; Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Sam Nivola and Iris Apatow; Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer Al...
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Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer, who have been married for 21 years, share two kids: son Sam and daughter May
In a joint interview with his dad, Sam tells PEOPLE what he's learned from watching his parents' lasting love over the years — and how it applies to his relationship with girlfriend Iris Apatow
Alessandro explains how he and Mortimer balanced their jobs with family over their two decades together
Alessandro Nivola and Emily Mortimer's enduring 21-year marriage has taught their son Sam Nivola a lot about love.
The Room Next Door actor, 53, who has been married to the Newsroom star, also 53, since 2003, tells PEOPLE in a joint interview with Sam, 21, at the 2025 US Open that the key to a lasting relationship is simple: "I think you need to both love and like each other and we do."
He jokes that because they're both actors, their marriage should be "measured in dog years."
"What is that, seven years to one? So we've been married like 210 years. We definitely deserve a medal for that," says Alessandro.
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Iris Apatow and Sam NivolaBorn eight months after his parents tied the knot, Sam has witnessed his parents' love story for his entire life.
Now, the White Lotus star has one of his own with Iris Apatow, one of director Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann's two daughters. Just like their parents, the young couple are working actors, and he says he realized "it's really hard" to balance their profession and a long-term relationship.
"Spending time apart is just really difficult," says Sam, who currently shares an apartment with his girlfriend, 22, in the East Village of New York City. "But it's kind of a good way of weeding out a bad relationship."
He explains, "If at the end of the day, you spend distance apart and you find that it's worth it, then you know you're really in love with the person. If not, you'll know right away. Like, 'It was actually kind of nice spending three months apart.' And then you're like, 'F---. Something's wrong.' "
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Sam Nivola, Emily Mortimer, Alessandro Nivola and May NivolaAlessandro credits a lack of extensive television work for allowing him and Mortimer to juggle their relationship, their jobs and two kids, which also includes their daughter, May, 15.
Each year, the couple typically took on two films, which allowed for extended periods where one or both of them could care for their children.
"It used to be that you could make a great living doing a couple of indie movies a year," The Brutalist actor explains. "It was a really a golden age of indie cinema in those years that [Sam and May] were needing a lot of attention."
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Sam Nivola, Emily Mortimer and Alessandro Nivola at Wimbledon
With the family of four all working in the entertainment industry, they still set aside time to bond over shared interests — like tennis. For over a decade, Alessandro and Sam have attended the US Open in Flushing Meadows, adoring the "raucous" New York crowds at the final Grand Slam of the year.
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Their love of the sport goes global. For the men's singles final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner at the 2025 Wimbledon Championships, the father and son flew to London for a day to attend the match with Mortimer.
"Family's ready for Sincaraz," Alessandro captioned a photo of the three on Instagram.
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