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 |