Stanley Tucci
- Acting
- November 11, 1960 · Peekskill, New York, USA
Biography
Stanley Tucci Jr. (born November 11, 1960) is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles ranging from menacing to sophisticated. Tucci has earned numerous accolades, including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and nominations for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Tony Award. Tucci made his film debut in John Huston's Prizzi's Honour (1985) and continued to play a variety of supporting roles in films such as Deconstructing Harry (1997), Road to Perdition (2002), and The Terminal (2004). He made his directorial debut with the comedy Big Night (1996), which he also co-wrote and starred in. Following roles in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009), Tucci was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Lovely Bones (2009). Tucci's other film roles include Burlesque (2010), Easy A (2010), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Margin Call (2011), The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015), Spotlight (2015), Supernova (2020), Worth (2021), and Conclave (2024). He has starred in numerous television series such as the legal drama Murder One (1995–1997), the medical drama 3 lbs (2006), Ryan Murphy's limited series Feud: Bette & Joan (2017), and the drama Limetown (2018). He played Stanley Kubrick in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004). For his portrayal of Walter Winchell in the HBO film Winchell (1998), he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. Since 2020, Tucci has voiced Bitsy Brandenham in the Apple TV+ animated series Central Park. From 2021 to 2022, he hosted the CNN food and travel documentary series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, for which he won two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2003) and a Grammy Award for narrating the audiobook The One and Only Shrek! (2008).
Known for
Filmography
- A Sleigh of One's Own · Santa Claus
- Masterplan · Roger
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 · Nigel
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere · Self
- PARASOCIAL · Self
- Fountain of Youth · The Elder
- Tucci in Italy · Self, Executive producer
- The Electric State · Ethan Skate
- Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special · Self
- Conclave · Bellini
- Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic · Self
- Citadel · Bernard Orlick
- Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico · Executive producer
- Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody · Clive Davis
- Inside Man · Jefferson Grieff
- Be My Guest with Ina Garten · Self
- The King's Man · United States Ambassador
- Moley · Mish Mosh (Voice)
- La Fortuna · Frank Wild
- What If...? · Dr. Erskine (Voice)
- Worth · Charles Wolf
- Jolt · Dr. Ivan Munchin
- Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy · Self, Executive producer
- Supernova · Tusker
- Roald Dahl's The Witches · Mr. Stringer
- Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip · Walter Winchell
- Central Park · Bitsy (Voice)
- Some Good News · Self
- Limetown · Emile Haddock
- The Kelly Clarkson Show · Self
- Night Hunter · Commissioner Harper
- The Silence · Hugh Andrews
- A Private War · Tony Shaw
- Patient Zero · The Professor
- The Children Act · Jack Maye
- Show Dogs · Philippe (Voice)
- Submission · Ted Swenson
- Final Portrait · Director, Screenplay
- Transformers: The Last Knight · Merlin
- Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft · Narrator
- Beauty and the Beast · Maestro Cadenza
- FEUD · Jack Warner
- Paint It Black · Executive producer
- Battle at Versailles · Narrator (Voice)
- Peter & Wendy · Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 · Caesar Flickerman
- Spotlight · Mitchell Garabedian
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert · Self
- Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant · Publishing Executive
- A Little Chaos · Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
- The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 · Self
- The Italian Americans · Self, Narrator
- Fortitude · DCI Morton
- Wild Card · Baby
- Bing Crosby: Rediscovered · Self
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 · Caesar Flickerman
- Evolution Within Extinction · Self
- BoJack Horseman · Herb Kazzaz (Voice)
- Transformers: Age of Extinction · Joshua Joyce
- Muppets Most Wanted · Ivan the Guard
- Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire · Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon · Self
- Mr. Peabody & Sherman · Leonardo da Vinci (Voice)
- Some Velvet Morning · Fred
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire · Caesar Flickerman
- The Fifth Estate · James Boswell
- Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters · Mr. D / Dionysus
- The Frame · Caesar Flickerman
- Jack the Giant Slayer · Roderick
- Blackout
- The Company You Keep · Ray Fuller
- The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games · Self
- Gambit · Martin Zaidenweber
- I'm Fast! · Train Engine
- The Hunger Games · Caesar Flickerman
- Margin Call · Eric Dale
- Captain America: The First Avenger · Dr. Abraham Erskine
- Fight for Your Right Revisited · Father
- The Making of Easy A · Self