
Stanley Tucci
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).
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Known For
Acting History
2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Nigel Kipling
2025PARASOCIAL as Self (archive footage)
2025Fountain of Youth as The Elder
2025Tucci in Italy as Self - Host
2025The Electric State as Ethan Skate
2024Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special as Self - Audience Member
2024Conclave as Bellini
2023Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic as Self
2023Citadel as Bernard Orlick
2022Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Clive Davis
2022Inside Man as Jefferson Grieff
2022Be My Guest with Ina Garten as Self
2021The King's Man as United States Ambassador
2021Moley as Mish Mosh (voice)
2021La Fortuna as Frank Wild
2021What If...? as Dr. Erskine (voice)
2021Worth as Charles Wolf
2021Jolt as Dr. Ivan Munchin
2021Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy as Self - Host
2020Supernova as Tusker
2020Roald Dahl's The Witches as Mr Stringer
2020Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip as Walter Winchell
2020Central Park as Bitsy (voice)
2020Some Good News as Self
2019Limetown as Emile Haddock
2019The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
2019Night Hunter as Commissioner Harper
2019The Silence as Hugh Andrews
2018A Private War as Tony Shaw
2018Patient Zero as The Professor
2018The Children Act as Jack Maye
2018Show Dogs as Philippe (voice)
2018Submission as Ted Swenson
2017Transformers: The Last Knight as Merlin
2017Beauty and the Beast as Maestro Cadenza
2017Inside Look: Feud - Bette and Joan as Self
2017FEUD as Jack Warner
2016Battle at Versailles as Narrator (voice)
2015Peter & Wendy as Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Caesar Flickerman
2015Spotlight as Mitchell Garabedian
2015The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as Publishing Executive
2015A Little Chaos as Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Caesar Flickerman
2015The Italian Americans as Narrator
2015Fortitude as DCI Morton
2015Wild Card as Baby
2014Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Caesar Flickerman
2014Evolution Within Extinction as Self
2014BoJack Horseman as Herb Kazzaz (voice)
2014Transformers: Age of Extinction as Joshua Joyce
2014Muppets Most Wanted as Ivan the Guard
2014Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - Caesar Flickerman
2014Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
2014Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2013Some Velvet Morning as Fred
2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Caesar Flickerman
2013The Fifth Estate as James Boswell
2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as Mr. D / Dionysus
2013The Frame as Caesar Flickerman
2013Jack the Giant Slayer as Roderick
2013Blackout
2012The Company You Keep as Ray Fuller
2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - Caesar Flickerman
2012Gambit as Martin Zaidenweber
2012I'm Fast! as Train Engine
2012The Hunger Games as Caesar Flickerman
2011Margin Call as Eric Dale
2011Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Abraham Erskine
2011Fight for Your Right Revisited as Father
2010The Making of Easy A as Self
2010Burlesque as Sean
2010Easy A as Dill
2010Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back as Senator (voice)
2010Casino Jack and the United States of Money as Jack Abramoff (voice)
2009The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
2009Julie & Julia as Paul Child
2009Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
2008The Tale of Despereaux as Boldo (voice)
2008What Just Happened as Scott Solomon
2008Blind Date as Don
2008Swing Vote as Martin Fox
2008Kit Kittredge: An American Girl as Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk
2008Space Chimps as Senator (voice)
2008Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2007The Graham Norton Show as Self
2007Four Last Songs as Larry
20063 lbs as Douglas Hanson
2006The Hoax as Shelton Fisher
200630 Rock as Henry Warren
2006The Devil Wears Prada as Nigel
2006Edge of Outside as Self
2006Lucky Number Slevin as Det. Brikowski
2005Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today as Narrator (voice)
2005Robots as Herb Copperbottom (voice)
2005Robot Chicken as Rich Uncle Pennybags / Party Host (voice)
2005American Dad! as Lorenzo (voice)
2005Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood as Narrator
2004Shall We Dance? as Link
2004The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Stanley Kubrick
2004The Terminal as Frank Dixon
2003Spin as Frank Haley
2003The Core as Dr. Conrad Zimsky
2002Maid in Manhattan as Jerry Siegel
2002Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Narrator (voice)
2002Monk as David Ruskin
2002Road to Perdition as Frank Nitti
2002Big Trouble as Arthur Herk
2001Sidewalks of New York as Griffin
2001America's Sweethearts as Dave Kingman
2001Conspiracy as Adolf Eichmann
2001The Whole Shebang as Giovanni Bazinni
2001Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker as Narrator
2000Bull as Hunter Lasky
2000Joe Gould's Secret as Joe Mitchell
1999The Early Show as Self
1999In Too Deep as Preston D'Ambrosio
1999Independent Lens
1999A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck
1998Winchell as Walter Winchell
1998The Alarmist as Heinrich Grigoris
1998The Impostors as Arthur
1998Montana as Nicholas 'Nick' Roth
1997Deconstructing Harry as Paul Epstein
1997A Life Less Ordinary as Elliot Zweikel
1997The View as Self
1997The Daytrippers as Louis D'Amico
1997The Eighteenth Angel as Todd Stanton
1996Sex and the Other Man as Arthur Wilkins
1996Big Night as Secondo
1996A Modern Affair as Peter Kessler
1996The Daily Show as Self
1996The Rosie O'Donnell Show as Self - Guest
1995Murder One as Richard Cross
1995Kiss of Death as Frank Zioli
1995Jury Duty as Frank
1994Somebody to Love as George
1994ER as Kevin Moretti
1994Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle as Fred Hunter
1994It Could Happen to You as Eddie Biasi
1993The Pelican Brief as Khamel
1993Frasier as Morrie (voice)
1993Undercover Blues as Muerte
1992In the Soup as Gregoire
1992The Public Eye as Sal
1992The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Amos (uncredited)
1992Prelude to a Kiss as Taylor
1992Beethoven as Vernon
1991Billy Bathgate as Lucky Luciano
1990Men Of Respect as Mal
1990Lifestories as Art Conforti
1990Quick Change as Johnny
1990Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler as Det. Patrick McGuire
1990Equal Justice as Frank Mirelli
1989Fear, Anxiety and Depression as Donny
1989The Feud as Harvey Yelton
1989Slaves of New York as Darryl
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest
1988LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988Monkey Shines as Dr. John Wiseman
1987thirtysomething
1987Wiseguy
1987Who's That Girl as 2nd Dock Worker
1987Kojak: The Price of Justice as 1st Tenant
1985The Equalizer as Assemblyman Phillip Wingate
1985Prizzi's Honor as Soldier
1984Miami Vice as Frank Mosca
1984Miami Vice as Steven DeMarco
1975Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
1956Tony Awards as Self
—Masterplan
—Sundance 20 as Himself
—Sequestered - Inside Conclave as Self









