Stanley Tucci
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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).
Overview
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
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Frasier
Tony Awards
The Graham Norton Show
30 Rock
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
ER
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
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Easy A
FEUD
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Pelican Brief
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Beethoven
It Could Happen to You
Fountain of Youth
The Tale of Despereaux
Citadel
Margin Call
Robots
Captain America: The First Avenger
The Electric State
Spotlight
Wild Card
The Fifth Estate
The Hunger Games
Central Park
Sidewalks of New York
Road to Perdition
The Lovely Bones
Burlesque
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Quick Change
Shall We Dance?
A Little Chaos
In Too Deep
La Fortuna
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Crime Story
The Core
The Devil Wears Prada
Night Hunter
Maid in Manhattan
Jack the Giant Slayer
Roald Dahl's The Witches
What If... Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?
The Terminal
Worth
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Julie & Julia
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Supernova
Limetown
Jolt
The Children Act
Inside Man
Conclave
Lifestories
The Silence
Winchell
3 LBS
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
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