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