Stanley Tucci
Actor
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).
Filmography
The Hunger Games
as Caesar Flickerman 2012
Captain America: The First Avenger
as Dr. Abraham Erskine 2011
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
as Caesar Flickerman 2013
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
as Caesar Flickerman 2014
Beauty and the Beast
as Maestro Cadenza 2017
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
as Caesar Flickerman 2015
The Devil Wears Prada
as Nigel 2006
Spotlight
as Mitchell Garabedian 2015
Transformers: Age of Extinction
as Joshua Joyce 2014
The Terminal
as Frank Dixon 2004
Easy A
as Dill 2010
Transformers: The Last Knight
as Merlin 2017
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
as Mr. D / Dionysus 2013
Jack the Giant Slayer
as Roderick 2013
The King's Man
as United States Ambassador 2021
The Lovely Bones
as George Harvey 2009
Robots
as Herb Copperbottom (voice) 2005