Stanley Tucci

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

Det. Brikowski

Lucky Number Slevin

Self - Caesar Flickerman

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

Self - Caesar Flickerman

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Frank Dixon

The Terminal

Martin Fox

Swing Vote

Arthur Herk

Big Trouble

Puck

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Dr. Abraham Erskine

Captain America: The First Avenger

Stanley Kubrick

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Eddie Biasi

It Could Happen to You

Taylor

Prelude to a Kiss

Paul Epstein

Deconstructing Harry

Johnny

Quick Change

Frank Nitti

Road to Perdition

Link

Shall We Dance?

Griffin

Sidewalks of New York

Jerry Siegel

Maid in Manhattan

Frank Zioli

Kiss of Death

Preston D'Ambrosio

In Too Deep

Nicholas 'Nick' Roth

Montana

Fred Hunter

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Dave Kingman

America's Sweethearts

Senator (voice)

Space Chimps

Don

Blind Date

George Harvey

The Lovely Bones

Giovanni Bazinni

The Whole Shebang

Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Elliot Zweikel

A Life Less Ordinary

Paul Child

Julie & Julia

Sal

The Public Eye

Scott Solomon

What Just Happened

Adolf Eichmann

Conspiracy

Lucky Luciano

Billy Bathgate

Dr. Conrad Zimsky

The Core

Muerte

Undercover Blues

Todd Stanton

The Eighteenth Angel

Amos (uncredited)

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

Arthur

The Impostors

Dr. John Wiseman

Monkey Shines

Sean

Burlesque

George

Somebody to Love

Dill

Easy A

Father

Fight for Your Right Revisited

Clive Davis

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Senator (voice)

Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back

Arthur Wilkins

Sex and the Other Man

Larry

Four Last Songs

Secondo

Big Night

Louis D'Amico

The Daytrippers

Eric Dale

Margin Call

Caesar Flickerman

The Hunger Games

Roderick

Jack the Giant Slayer

Frank

Jury Duty

Joshua Joyce

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Mr. D / Dionysus

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Ray Fuller

The Company You Keep

Caesar Flickerman

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Martin Zaidenweber

Gambit

Heinrich Grigoris

The Alarmist

Peter Kessler

A Modern Affair

Joe Mitchell

Joe Gould's Secret

James Boswell

The Fifth Estate

Jack Abramoff (voice)

Casino Jack and the United States of Money

Frank Haley

Spin

Fred

Some Velvet Morning

Walter Winchell

Winchell

Harvey Yelton

The Feud

Nigel

The Devil Wears Prada

Ivan the Guard

Muppets Most Wanted

Leonardo da Vinci (voice)

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Baby

Wild Card

Narrator

Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker

Self

The Making of Easy A

Philippe, Duc d'Orleans

A Little Chaos

Self

Edge of Outside

Ethan Skate

The Electric State

Donny

Fear, Anxiety and Depression

Narrator

Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood

Caesar Flickerman

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

Boldo (voice)

The Tale of Despereaux

Self

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic

Mitchell Garabedian

Spotlight

The Professor

Patient Zero

Caesar Flickerman

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Mal

Men Of Respect

Self

Evolution Within Extinction

Vernon

Beethoven

Maestro Cadenza

Beauty and the Beast

1st Tenant

Kojak: The Price of Justice

Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie

Peter & Wendy

Det. Patrick McGuire

Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

2nd Dock Worker

Who's That Girl

Gregoire

In the Soup

Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies

Ted Swenson

Submission

Merlin

Transformers: The Last Knight

Khamel

The Pelican Brief

Blackout

Shelton Fisher

The Hoax

Narrator (voice)

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer

Herb Copperbottom (voice)

Robots

Commissioner Harper

Night Hunter

Jack Maye

The Children Act

Philippe (voice)

Show Dogs

Soldier

Prizzi's Honor

Tony Shaw

A Private War

Hugh Andrews

The Silence

Darryl

Slaves of New York

United States Ambassador

The King's Man

Dr. Ivan Munchin

Jolt

Self - Caesar Flickerman

The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

Self - Narrator (voice)

Bing Crosby: Rediscovered

Tusker

Supernova

Mr Stringer

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Charles Wolf

Worth

Publishing Executive

Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant

Train Engine

I'm Fast!

Walter Winchell

Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip

Narrator (voice)

Battle at Versailles

Narrator (voice)

Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today

Bellini

Conclave

Self - Audience Member

Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special

The Elder

Fountain of Youth

Nigel Kipling

The Devil Wears Prada 2

Self

Sequestered - Inside Conclave

Self (archive footage)

PARASOCIAL

Roger

Masterplan

Himself

Sundance 20

Santa Claus

A Sleigh of One's Own

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

129

Gender

Male

Birthday

1960-11-11

Place of Birth

Peekskill, New York, USA

Also Known As

史丹利·圖奇