Nina Arianda

 ( 1984 Births ) 

Arianda became interested in acting as a child, declaring at age 9 that she wanted to become a professional actress. She attended LaGuardia High School for one semester before her father’s job took her family to Heidelberg, where she finished high school. As a teen, she got involved with Roadside Theater, a community theater at U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg.

She returned to New York for college in 2002, beginning her studies at American Musical and Dramatic Academy, earning a bachelor of arts at The New School, and a master of fine arts in acting at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 2009.

She starred in the Manhattan Theatre Club's production of Tales From Red Vienna in 2014. She has appeared in several films including Win Win, Tower Heist, Midnight in Paris, Rob the Mob, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. She was cast in January 2015 for Hannibal season 3 as Molly, the wife of Will Graham (played by her former Broadway co-star Hugh Dancy).

Arianda starred in Fool for Love at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in July 2014 with Sam Rockwell, directed by Daniel Aukin. Arianda and Rockwell reprised their roles on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre in 2015. Arianda played Agnes Stark in the film Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) and appeared in the film Stan & Ollie (2018) as Ida Kitaeva, the wife of comedian Stan Laurel.

Arianda co-starred in all four seasons of the series Goliath from 2016 to 2021, as well as in the fourth season of Billions.

In 2019, she appeared with Sam Rockwell in the Clint Eastwood film Richard Jewell.

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