Biography
Nina Arianda (born Nina Arianda Matijcio; September 18, 1984) is an American film, stage and television actress. She won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play in 2012 for Venus in Fur. She was also nominated for another Tony for her performance in Born Yesterday. She starred in Amazon Studios legal series Goliath and starred in the biographical film Stan & Ollie (2018) as Stan Laurel's wife Ida. Arianda was born Nina Arianda Matijcio on September 18, 1984, in Manhattan, New York. Her parents were born in Germany to Ukrainian families. She grew up in Clifton, New Jersey, and Heidelberg, Germany. She earned a Bachelor of Arts at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts and a Master of Fine Arts at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program in 2009
Awards & recognition
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 2012
- Theatre World Award · 2010
- Tony Award — Best Actress in a Play · 2011 · nominated
Filmography26 titles
Hannibal
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Billions
Goliath
The Good Wife
Midnight in Paris
30 Rock
Richard Jewell
Master of None
The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
Bang Bang
Stan & Ollie
Win Win
Florence Foster Jenkins
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Being the Ricardos
Greedy People
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Rob the Mob
Tower Heist
Lucky Them
Higher Ground
You Can't Win
The Humbling
Never Here
Shadows & Lies