Name
Stanley Tucci
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1960-11-11 (66 years old)
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
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- 2006 Lucky Number Slevin as Det. Brikowski
- 2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - Caesar Flickerman
- 2014 Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - Caesar Flickerman
- 2004 The Terminal as Frank Dixon
- 2008 Swing Vote as Martin Fox
- 2002 Big Trouble as Arthur Herk
- 1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck
- 2011 Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Abraham Erskine
- 2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Stanley Kubrick
- 1994 It Could Happen to You as Eddie Biasi
- 1992 Prelude to a Kiss as Taylor
- 1997 Deconstructing Harry as Paul Epstein
- 1990 Quick Change as Johnny
- 2002 Road to Perdition as Frank Nitti
- 2004 Shall We Dance? as Link
- 2001 Sidewalks of New York as Griffin
- 2002 Maid in Manhattan as Jerry Siegel
- 1995 Kiss of Death as Frank Zioli
- 1999 In Too Deep as Preston D'Ambrosio
- 1998 Montana as Nicholas 'Nick' Roth
- 1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle as Fred Hunter
- 2001 America's Sweethearts as Dave Kingman
- 2008 Space Chimps as Senator (voice)
- 2008 Blind Date as Don
- 2009 The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
- 2001 The Whole Shebang as Giovanni Bazinni
- 2008 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl as Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk
- 1997 A Life Less Ordinary as Elliot Zweikel
- 2009 Julie & Julia as Paul Child
- 1992 The Public Eye as Sal
- 2008 What Just Happened as Scott Solomon
- 2001 Conspiracy as Adolf Eichmann
- 1991 Billy Bathgate as Lucky Luciano
- 2003 The Core as Dr. Conrad Zimsky
- 1997 The Eighteenth Angel as Todd Stanton
- 1993 Undercover Blues as Muerte
- 1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Amos (uncredited)
- 1998 The Impostors as Arthur
- 1988 Monkey Shines as Dr. John Wiseman
- 2010 Burlesque as Sean
- 1994 Somebody to Love as George
- 2010 Easy A as Dill
- 2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited as Father
- 2022 Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Clive Davis
- 2010 Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back as Senator (voice)
- 1996 Sex and the Other Man as Arthur Wilkins
- 2007 Four Last Songs as Larry
- 1996 Big Night as Secondo
- 1997 The Daytrippers as Louis D'Amico
- 2011 Margin Call as Eric Dale
- 2012 The Hunger Games as Caesar Flickerman
- 2013 Jack the Giant Slayer as Roderick
- 1995 Jury Duty as Frank
- 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction as Joshua Joyce
- 2013 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as Mr. D / Dionysus
- 2012 The Company You Keep as Ray Fuller
- 2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Caesar Flickerman
- 2012 Gambit as Martin Zaidenweber
- 1998 The Alarmist as Heinrich Grigoris
- 1996 A Modern Affair as Peter Kessler
- 2000 Joe Gould's Secret as Joe Mitchell
- 2013 The Fifth Estate as James Boswell
- 2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money as Jack Abramoff (voice)
- 2003 Spin as Frank Haley
- 2013 Some Velvet Morning as Fred
- 1998 Winchell as Walter Winchell
- 1989 The Feud as Harvey Yelton
- 2006 The Devil Wears Prada as Nigel
- 2014 Muppets Most Wanted as Ivan the Guard
- 2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
- 2015 Wild Card as Baby
- 2001 Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker as Narrator
- 2010 The Making of Easy A as Self
- 2015 A Little Chaos as Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
- 2006 Edge of Outside as Self
- 2025 The Electric State as Ethan Skate
- 1989 Fear, Anxiety and Depression as Donny
- 2005 Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood as Narrator
- 2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Caesar Flickerman
- 2008 The Tale of Despereaux as Boldo (voice)
- 2023 Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic as Self
- 2015 Spotlight as Mitchell Garabedian
- 2018 Patient Zero as The Professor
- 2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Caesar Flickerman
- 1990 Men Of Respect as Mal
- 2014 Evolution Within Extinction as Self
- 1992 Beethoven as Vernon
- 2017 Beauty and the Beast as Maestro Cadenza
- 1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice as 1st Tenant
- 2015 Peter & Wendy as Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
- 1990 Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler as Det. Patrick McGuire
- 1987 Who's That Girl as 2nd Dock Worker
- 1992 In the Soup as Gregoire
- 2008 Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
- 2018 Submission as Ted Swenson
- 1993 The Pelican Brief as Khamel
- 2017 Transformers: The Last Knight as Merlin
- 2013 Blackout
- 2006 The Hoax as Shelton Fisher
- 2002 Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 Robots as Herb Copperbottom (voice)
- 2019 Night Hunter as Commissioner Harper
- 2018 The Children Act as Jack Maye
- 2018 Show Dogs as Philippe (voice)
- 1985 Prizzi's Honor as Soldier
- 2018 A Private War as Tony Shaw
- 2019 The Silence as Hugh Andrews
- 1989 Slaves of New York as Darryl
- 2021 The King's Man as United States Ambassador
- 2021 Jolt as Dr. Ivan Munchin
- 2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Caesar Flickerman
- 2014 Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2020 Supernova as Tusker
- 2020 Roald Dahl's The Witches as Mr. Stringer
- 2021 Worth as Charles Wolf
- 2015 Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as Publishing Executive
- 2012 I'm Fast! as Train Engine
- 2020 Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip as Walter Winchell
- 2016 Battle at Versailles as Narrator (voice)
- 2005 Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today as Narrator (voice)
- 2024 Conclave as Bellini
- 2024 Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special as Self - Audience Member
- 2025 Fountain of Youth as The Elder
- 2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Nigel
- 2025 PARASOCIAL as Self (archive footage)
- 2026 Masterplan as Roger
- 2002 Sundance 20 as Self
- 2028 A Sleigh of One's Own as Santa Claus
- 2006 10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada as Self
- 2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere as Self
- 2017 Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft as Narrator
- 1987 thirtysomething ( 2 episodes )
- 2002 Monk ( 1 episode ) as David Ruskin
- 1984 Miami Vice ( 2 episodes ) as Frank Mosca
- 1997 The View ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2021 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy ( 14 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 1995 Murder One ( 23 episodes ) as Richard Cross
- 2006 3 lbs ( 8 episodes ) as Douglas Hanson
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1999 The Early Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2023 Citadel ( 13 episodes ) as Bernard Orlick
- 1985 The Equalizer ( 1 episode ) as Assemblyman Phillip Wingate
- 1987 Wiseguy ( 5 episodes )
- 1994 ER ( 10 episodes ) as Kevin Moretti
- 2000 Bull ( 22 episodes ) as Hunter Lasky
- 1990 Lifestories ( 9 episodes ) as Art Conforti
- 2021 What If...? ( 2 episodes ) as Dr. Erskine (voice)
- 2015 Fortitude ( 11 episodes ) as DCI Morton
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2021 Moley ( 52 episodes ) as Mish Mosh (voice)
- 2017 FEUD ( 8 episodes ) as Jack Warner
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Morrie (voice)
- 2014 BoJack Horseman ( 11 episodes ) as Herb Kazzaz (voice)
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2006 30 Rock ( 1 episode ) as Henry Warren
- 1999 Independent Lens ( 544 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show ( 3 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2025 Tucci in Italy ( 10 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2013 The Frame ( 1 episode ) as Caesar Flickerman
- 2022 Inside Man ( 4 episodes ) as Jefferson Grieff
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode )
- 2005 Robot Chicken ( 1 episode ) as Rich Uncle Pennybags / Party Host (voice)
- 2015 The Italian Americans ( 4 episodes ) as Self, Narrator
- 1990 Equal Justice ( 1 episode ) as Frank Mirelli
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
- 2022 Be My Guest with Ina Garten ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2019 Limetown ( 10 episodes ) as Emile Haddock
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2005 American Dad! ( 1 episode ) as Lorenzo (voice)
- 2020 Central Park ( 39 episodes ) as Bitsy (voice)
- 2020 Some Good News ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2021 La Fortuna ( 6 episodes ) as Frank Wild
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1984 Miami Vice ( 1 episode ) as Steven DeMarco
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1984 Jeopardy! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Clue Presenter
- Soon Tucci in Great Britain ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Harvey Yelton
