About
Stanley Tucci
Overview
Stanley Tucci Jr. (/ˈtuːtʃi/ TOO-chee; Italian pronunciation: [ˈtuttʃi]; 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).
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Known for
Acting |
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| 2025 | The Electric State | Actor | Ethan Skate | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special | Actor | Self - Audience Member | N/A N/A |
| 2024 | Conclave | Actor | Bellini | 66 Fair |
| 2023 | Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2023 | Citadel | Actor | Bernard Orlick | 69 Fair |
| 2022 | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody | Actor | Clive Davis | 64 Fair |
| 2022 | Inside Man | Actor | Jefferson Grieff | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | The King's Man | Actor | United States Ambassador | 67 Fair |
| 2021 | Moley | Actor | Mish Mosh (voice) | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | La Fortuna | Actor | Frank Wild | 69 Fair |
| 2021 | Worth | Actor | Charles Wolf | 62 Fair |
| 2021 | Jolt | Actor | Dr. Ivan Munchin | 63 Fair |
| 2021 | Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy | Actor | Himself | N/A N/A |
| 2021 | Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy | Actor | Self - Host | 70 Good |
| 2020 | Supernova | Actor | Tusker | 62 Fair |
| 2020 | Roald Dahl's The Witches | Actor | Mr Stringer | 63 Fair |
| 2020 | Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip | Actor | Walter Winchell | 58 Average |
| 2020 | Central Park | Actor | Bitsy (voice) | 65 Fair |
| 2019 | Limetown | Actor | Emile Haddock | 67 Fair |
| 2019 | Night Hunter | Actor | Commissioner Harper | 63 Fair |
| 2019 | The Silence | Actor | Hugh Andrews | 59 Average |
| 2018 | A Private War | Actor | Tony Shaw | 63 Fair |
| 2018 | Patient Zero | Actor | The Professor | 56 Average |
| 2018 | The Children Act | Actor | Jack Maye | 62 Fair |
| 2018 | Show Dogs | Actor | Philippe (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2018 | Submission | Actor | Ted Swenson | 59 Average |
| 2017 | Transformers: The Last Knight | Actor | Merlin | 60 Fair |
| 2017 | Beauty and the Beast | Actor | Maestro Cadenza | 69 Fair |
| 2016 | Battle at Versailles | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2015 | Peter & Wendy | Actor | Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie | 59 Average |
| 2015 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Actor | Caesar Flickerman | 68 Fair |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Actor | Mitchell Garabedian | 76 Good |
| 2015 | Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant | Actor | Publishing Executive | 58 Average |
| 2015 | A Little Chaos | Actor | Philippe, Duc d'Orleans | 61 Fair |
| 2015 | The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Actor | Self (Caesar Flickerman) | 59 Average |
| 2015 | The Italian Americans | Actor | Narrator | 70 Good |
| 2015 | Wild Card | Actor | Baby | 57 Average |
| 2014 | Bing Crosby: Rediscovered | Actor | Self - Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Actor | Caesar Flickerman | 67 Fair |
| 2014 | Evolution Within Extinction | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Julia Sans Julie | Actor | Paul Child | N/A N/A |
| 2014 | Transformers: Age of Extinction | Actor | Joshua Joyce | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Muppets Most Wanted | Actor | Ivan the Guard | 61 Fair |
| 2014 | Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Actor | Self (Caesar Flickerman) | 59 Average |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | Actor | Leonardo da Vinci (voice) | 65 Fair |
| 2013 | Some Velvet Morning | Actor | Fred | 58 Average |
| 2013 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Actor | Caesar Flickerman | 73 Good |
| 2013 | The Fifth Estate | Actor | James Boswell | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters | Actor | Mr. D / Dionysus | 60 Fair |
| 2013 | Jack the Giant Slayer | Actor | Roderick | 58 Average |
| 2013 | Blackout | Actor | N/A N/A |
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| 2012 | The Company You Keep | Actor | Ray Fuller | 60 Fair |
| 2012 | The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games | Actor | Self (Caesar Flickerman) | 59 Average |
| 2012 | Gambit | Actor | Martin Zaidenweber | 56 Average |
| 2012 | I'm Fast! | Actor | Train Engine | N/A N/A |
| 2012 | The Hunger Games | Actor | Caesar Flickerman | 71 Good |
| 2011 | Captain America: The First Avenger | Actor | Dr. Abraham Erskine | 69 Fair |
| 2011 | Fight for Your Right Revisited | Actor | Father | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Margin Call | Actor | Eric Dale | 66 Fair |
| 2010 | The Making of Easy A | Actor | Self | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Burlesque | Actor | Sean | 69 Fair |
| 2010 | Easy A | Actor | Dill | 67 Fair |
| 2010 | Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back | Actor | Senator (voice) | 56 Average |
| 2010 | Casino Jack and the United States of Money | Actor | Jack Abramoff (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2009 | The Lovely Bones | Actor | George Harvey | 69 Fair |
| 2009 | Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Actor | Paul Child | 65 Fair |
| 2008 | The Tale of Despereaux | Actor | Boldo (voice) | 60 Fair |
| 2008 | What Just Happened | Actor | Scott Solomon | 56 Average |
| 2008 | Blind Date | Actor | Don | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Swing Vote | Actor | Martin Fox | 58 Average |
| 2008 | Kit Kittredge: An American Girl | Actor | Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Space Chimps | Actor | Senator (voice) | 54 Average |
| 2008 | Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies | Actor | 59 Average |
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| 2007 | Four Last Songs | Actor | Larry | 58 Average |
| 2006 | 3 LBS | Actor | Douglas Hanson | 67 Fair |
| 2006 | The Hoax | Actor | Shelton Fisher | 60 Fair |
| 2006 | The Devil Wears Prada | Actor | Nigel | 73 Good |
| 2006 | Edge of Outside | Actor | Self | 58 Average |
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | Actor | Det. Brikowski | 73 Good |
| 2005 | Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today | Actor | Narrator (voice) | N/A N/A |
| 2005 | Robots | Actor | Herb Copperbottom (voice) | 64 Fair |
| 2005 | Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2004 | Shall We Dance? | Actor | Link | 62 Fair |
| 2004 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Actor | Stanley Kubrick | 60 Fair |
| 2004 | The Terminal | Actor | Frank Dixon | 72 Good |
| 2003 | Spin | Actor | Frank Haley | 58 Average |
| 2003 | The Core | Actor | Dr. Conrad Zimsky | 58 Average |
| 2002 | Maid in Manhattan | Actor | Jerry Siegel | 60 Fair |
| 2002 | Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer | Actor | Narrator (voice) | 59 Average |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | Actor | Frank Nitti | 71 Good |
| 2002 | Big Trouble | Actor | Arthur Herk | 59 Average |
| 2001 | Sidewalks of New York | Actor | Griffin | 59 Average |
| 2001 | America's Sweethearts | Actor | Dave Kingman | 57 Average |
| 2001 | Conspiracy | Actor | Adolf Eichmann | 64 Fair |
| 2001 | The Whole Shebang | Actor | Giovanni Bazinni | 58 Average |
| 2001 | Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker | Actor | Narrator | N/A N/A |
| 2000 | Bull | Actor | Hunter Lasky | 69 Fair |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Actor | Joe Mitchell | 59 Average |
| 1999 | In Too Deep | Actor | Preston D'Ambrosio | 59 Average |
| 1999 | Independent Lens | Actor | 69 Fair |
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| 1999 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Actor | Puck | 61 Fair |
| 1998 | Winchell | Actor | Walter Winchell | 59 Average |
| 1998 | The Alarmist | Actor | Heinrich Grigoris | 58 Average |
| 1998 | The Impostors | Actor | Arthur | 58 Average |
| 1998 | Montana | Actor | Nicholas 'Nick' Roth | 58 Average |
| 1997 | Deconstructing Harry | Actor | Paul Epstein | 67 Fair |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Actor | Elliot Zweikel | 59 Average |
| 1997 | The Daytrippers | Actor | Louis D'Amico | 59 Average |
| 1997 | The Eighteenth Angel | Actor | Todd Stanton | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Sex and the Other Man | Actor | Arthur Wilkins | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Big Night | Actor | Secondo | 62 Fair |
| 1996 | A Modern Affair | Actor | Peter Kessler | 58 Average |
| 1995 | Kiss of Death | Actor | Frank Zioli | 57 Average |
| 1995 | Jury Duty | Actor | Frank | 56 Average |
| 1994 | Somebody to Love | Actor | George | 58 Average |
| 1994 | Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle | Actor | Fred Hunter | 59 Average |
| 1994 | It Could Happen to You | Actor | Eddie Biasi | 63 Fair |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief | Actor | Khamel | 64 Fair |
| 1993 | Undercover Blues | Actor | Muerte | 59 Average |
| 1992 | In the Soup | Actor | Gregoire | 59 Average |
| 1992 | The Public Eye | Actor | Sal | 59 Average |
| 1992 | The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Actor | Amos (uncredited) | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Prelude to a Kiss | Actor | Taylor | 58 Average |
| 1992 | Beethoven | Actor | Vernon | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Billy Bathgate | Actor | Lucky Luciano | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Men Of Respect | Actor | Mal | 58 Average |
| 1990 | Lifestories | Actor | Art Conforti | N/A N/A |
| 1990 | Quick Change | Actor | Johnny | 62 Fair |
| 1990 | Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler | Actor | Det. Patrick McGuire | N/A N/A |
| 1989 | Fear, Anxiety and Depression | Actor | Donny | 59 Average |
| 1989 | The Feud | Actor | Harvey Yelton | 58 Average |
| 1989 | Slaves of New York | Actor | Darryl | 59 Average |
| 1988 | Monkey Shines | Actor | Dr. John Wiseman | 60 Fair |
| 1987 | Who's That Girl | Actor | 2nd Dock Worker | 57 Average |
| 1987 | Kojak: The Price of Justice | Actor | 1st Tenant | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Prizzi's Honor | Actor | Soldier | 61 Fair |
| Tucci: The Heart of Italy | Actor | Self - Host | N/A N/A |
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Directing |
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| 2017 | Final Portrait | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Blind Date | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
| 2000 | Joe Gould's Secret | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
| 1998 | The Impostors | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Big Night | Directing | Director | 62 Fair |
Writing |
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| 2017 | Final Portrait | Writing | Screenplay | 59 Average |
| 2008 | Blind Date | Writing | Screenplay | 58 Average |
| 1998 | The Impostors | Writing | Writer | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Big Night | Writing | Writer | 62 Fair |
Production |
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| 2023 | Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico | Production | Executive Producer | 69 Fair |
| 2016 | Paint It Black | Production | Executive Producer | 59 Average |
| 2010 | Saint John of Las Vegas | Production | Executive Producer | 58 Average |
| 2003 | The Mudge Boy | Production | Producer | 59 Average |
| 1998 | The Impostors | Production | Producer | 58 Average |
| Tucci: The Heart of Italy | Production | Executive Producer | N/A N/A |
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