
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

Frasier

Tony Awards

The Graham Norton Show

30 Rock

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

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

Honest Trailers

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

Easy A

FEUD

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The Pelican Brief

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

Fountain of Youth

It Could Happen to You

Margin Call

The Tale of Despereaux

Captain America: The First Avenger

Robots

Citadel

Beethoven

Spotlight

Sidewalks of New York

The Hunger Games

The Fifth Estate

The Electric State

Central Park

Wild Card

Road to Perdition

Burlesque

The Lovely Bones

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Quick Change

La Fortuna

Jack the Giant Slayer

A Little Chaos

In Too Deep

Crime Story

The Devil Wears Prada

Maid in Manhattan

The Core

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

Night Hunter

Shall We Dance?

Worth

Julie & Julia

Transformers: Age of Extinction

The Terminal

Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Conclave

The Children Act

Supernova

Inside Man

Jolt

Lifestories

Limetown

3 LBS

Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy

ER

Winchell

The Silence
Production Credits
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