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