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