Nivola made his acting debut in the Sky Atlantic comedy series Doll & Em (2013), starring his mother.[7] In 2021, he and his sister played siblings on an episode of The Pursuit of Love, a British miniseries based on Nancy Mitford's novel of the same title adapted by their mother for BBC One.[6][8] Nivola wrote and directed a short film Neighborhood Watch for the anthology With/In (2021), which consisted of films shot on smartphones about life in quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic.[7][9]
Nivola and his sister played two of the central family's children in Noah Baumbach's film White Noise (2022).[10] At the callback audition for White Noise, Baumbach had asked Nivola if his sister wanted to audition for the role she eventually played in the film.[6] The next year, Nivola played the son of Leonard Bernstein in Bradley Cooper's Maestro.[11] Also in 2023, Nivola walked the runway at Paris Fashion Week for Miu Miu alongside the likes of Emma Corrin.[12]
It was announced in January 2024 that Nivola had been cast in The White Lotus season three.[13]
