Stanley Tucci
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Biography
Stanley Tucci Jr. 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
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Frasier
Tony Awards
The Graham Norton Show
30 Rock
The Kelly Clarkson Show
American Dad!
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Early Show
BoJack Horseman
Miami Vice
The Equalizer
Robot Chicken
Wiseguy
The Daily Show
Monk
ER
Marvel Studios Legends
The King's Man
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
What If...?
Muppets Most Wanted
Beauty and the Beast
Transformers: The Last Knight
FEUD
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Easy A
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Pelican Brief
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Beethoven
Citadel
Captain America: The First Avenger
Fountain of Youth
It Could Happen to You
The Tale of Despereaux
Robots
Margin Call
The Electric State
Sidewalks of New York
The Fifth Estate
The Hunger Games
Central Park
Wild Card
Spotlight
Road to Perdition
Burlesque
Quick Change
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Lovely Bones
The Devil Wears Prada
The Core
Shall We Dance?
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Maid in Manhattan
Crime Story
In Too Deep
Jack the Giant Slayer
Night Hunter
A Little Chaos
La Fortuna
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Julie & Julia
The Terminal
What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?
Worth
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Roald Dahl's The Witches
The Children Act
Inside Man
Jolt
Lifestories
Supernova
Limetown
Conclave
Winchell
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
The Silence
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Production Credits
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