
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).
Acting (125 movies)

Lucky Number Slevin
2006

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012

Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014

The Terminal
2004

Swing Vote
2008

Big Trouble
2002

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999

Captain America: The First Avenger
2011

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004

It Could Happen to You
1994

Prelude to a Kiss
1992

Deconstructing Harry
1997

Quick Change
1990

Road to Perdition
2002

Shall We Dance?
2004

Sidewalks of New York
2001

Maid in Manhattan
2002

Kiss of Death
1995

In Too Deep
1999

Montana
1998

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994

America's Sweethearts
2001

Space Chimps
2008

Blind Date
2008

The Lovely Bones
2009

The Whole Shebang
2001

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008

A Life Less Ordinary
1997

Julie & Julia
2009

The Public Eye
1992

What Just Happened
2008

Conspiracy
2001

Billy Bathgate
1991

The Core
2003

The Eighteenth Angel
1997

Undercover Blues
1993

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992

The Impostors
1998

Monkey Shines
1988

Burlesque
2010

Somebody to Love
1994

Easy A
2010

Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022

Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
2010

Sex and the Other Man
1996

Four Last Songs
2007

Big Night
1996

The Daytrippers
1997

Margin Call
2011

The Hunger Games
2012

Jack the Giant Slayer
2013

Jury Duty
1995

Transformers: Age of Extinction
2014

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013

The Company You Keep
2012

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013

Gambit
2012

The Alarmist
1998

A Modern Affair
1996

Joe Gould's Secret
2000

The Fifth Estate
2013

Casino Jack and the United States of Money
2010

Spin
2003

Some Velvet Morning
2013

Winchell
1998

The Feud
1989

The Devil Wears Prada
2006

Muppets Most Wanted
2014

Mr. Peabody & Sherman
2014

Wild Card
2015

Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker
2001

The Making of Easy A
2010

A Little Chaos
2015

Edge of Outside
2006

The Electric State
2025

Fear, Anxiety and Depression
1989

Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
2005

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014

The Tale of Despereaux
2008

Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023

Spotlight
2015

Patient Zero
2018

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015

Men Of Respect
1990

Evolution Within Extinction
2014

Beethoven
1992

Beauty and the Beast
2017

Kojak: The Price of Justice
1987

Peter & Wendy
2015

Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990

Who's That Girl
1987

In the Soup
1992

Submission
2018

The Pelican Brief
1993

Transformers: The Last Knight
2017

Blackout
2013

The Hoax
2006

Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002

Robots
2005
Directing (5 movies)
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Big Night | 1996 | Writer |
| The Impostors | 1998 | Writer |
| The Impostors | 1998 | Producer |
| The Mudge Boy | 2003 | Producer |
| Blind Date | 2008 | Screenplay |
| Saint John of Las Vegas | 2010 | Executive Producer |
| Paint It Black | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Final Portrait | 2017 | Screenplay |
