Stanley Tucci
Acting
- Born:
- 1960-11-11
- Place of birth:
- 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
Masterplan
The Devil Wears Prada 2
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere
PARASOCIAL
Fountain of Youth
Tucci in Italy
The Electric State
Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
Conclave
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Citadel
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Inside Man
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
The King's Man
Moley
La Fortuna
What If...?
Worth
Jolt
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
Supernova
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Central Park
Some Good News
Limetown
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Night Hunter
The Silence
A Private War
Patient Zero
The Children Act
Show Dogs
Submission
Transformers: The Last Knight
Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft
Beauty and the Beast
FEUD
Battle at Versailles
Peter & Wendy
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Spotlight
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
A Little Chaos
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
The Italian Americans
Fortitude
Wild Card
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Evolution Within Extinction
BoJack Horseman
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Muppets Most Wanted
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Some Velvet Morning
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Fifth Estate
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
The Frame
Gogglebox
Jack the Giant Slayer
Blackout
The Company You Keep
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Gambit
I'm Fast!
The Hunger Games
Margin Call
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
Captain America: The First Avenger
Fight for Your Right Revisited
The Making of Easy A
Burlesque
Easy A
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
The Lovely Bones
Julie & Julia
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tale of Despereaux
What Just Happened
Blind Date
Swing Vote
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Space Chimps
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
The Graham Norton Show
Four Last Songs
3 lbs
The Hoax
30 Rock
The Devil Wears Prada
10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada
Edge of Outside
Lucky Number Slevin
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Robots
Robot Chicken
American Dad!
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
Shall We Dance?
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Terminal
Spin
The Core
Maid in Manhattan
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Road to Perdition
Monk
Big Trouble
Sundance 20
Sidewalks of New York
America's Sweethearts
Conspiracy
The Whole Shebang
Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker
Bull
Joe Gould's Secret
The Early Show
In Too Deep
Independent Lens
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Winchell
The Alarmist
The Impostors
Montana
Deconstructing Harry
A Life Less Ordinary
The View
The Daytrippers
The Eighteenth Angel
Sex and the Other Man
Big Night
A Modern Affair
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Murder One
Kiss of Death
Jury Duty
Somebody to Love
ER
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
It Could Happen to You
The Pelican Brief
Frasier
Undercover Blues
In the Soup
The Public Eye
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Prelude to a Kiss
Beethoven
Billy Bathgate
Men Of Respect
Lifestories
Quick Change
Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
Equal Justice
Fear, Anxiety and Depression
The Feud
Slaves of New York
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Monkey Shines
thirtysomething
Wiseguy
Who's That Girl
Kojak: The Price of Justice
The Equalizer
Prizzi's Honor
Miami Vice
Jeopardy!
American Playhouse
Saturday Night Live
Tony Awards
The Devil wears Prada 3
Tucci in Great Britain