Acting · Peekskill, New York, USA · Born November 11, 1960
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).
MovieA Sleigh of One's Own
2028
as Santa Claus
MovieThe Hunger Games Series
2026
as Caesar Flickerman
Masterplan
2026
as Roger
MovieThe Devil Wears Prada 2
2026
as Nigel
MovieThe Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere
2026
as Self
MoviePARASOCIAL
2025
as Self (archive footage)
MovieFountain of Youth
2025
as The Elder
TVTucci in Italy
2025
as Self - Host
MovieThe Electric State
2025
as Ethan Skate
MovieMichael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
2024
as Self - Audience Member
MovieConclave
2024
as Bellini
MovieDick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
2023
as Self
TVCitadel
2023
as Bernard Orlick
MovieWhitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022
as Clive Davis
TVInside Man
2022
as Jefferson Grieff
TVBe My Guest with Ina Garten
2022
as Self
MovieThe King's Man
2021
as United States Ambassador
TVMoley
2021
as Mish Mosh (voice)
TVLa Fortuna
2021
as Frank Wild
TVWhat If...?
2021
as Dr. Erskine (voice)
MovieWorth
2021
as Charles Wolf
MovieJolt
2021
as Dr. Ivan Munchin
TVStanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
2021
as Self - Host
MovieSupernova
2020
as Tusker
MovieRoald Dahl's The Witches
2020
as Mr. Stringer
MovieWalter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
2020
as Walter Winchell
TVCentral Park
2020
as Bitsy (voice)
TVSome Good News
2020
as Self
TVLimetown
2019
as Emile Haddock
TVThe Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
as Self - Guest
MovieNight Hunter
2019
as Commissioner Harper
MovieThe Silence
2019
as Hugh Andrews
MovieA Private War
2018
as Tony Shaw
MoviePatient Zero
2018
as The Professor
MovieThe Children Act
2018
as Jack Maye
MovieShow Dogs
2018
as Philippe (voice)
MovieSubmission
2018
as Ted Swenson
MovieTransformers: The Last Knight
2017
as Merlin
MovieJacques Pépin: The Art of Craft
2017
as Narrator
MovieBeauty and the Beast
2017
as Maestro Cadenza
TVFEUD
2017
as Jack Warner
MovieBattle at Versailles
2016
as Narrator (voice)
MoviePeter & Wendy
2015
as Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
MovieThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015
as Caesar Flickerman
MovieSpotlight
2015
as Mitchell Garabedian
TVThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
MovieLarry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
2015
as Publishing Executive
MovieA Little Chaos
2015
as Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
MovieThe Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
2015
as Self - Caesar Flickerman
TVThe Italian Americans
2015
as Self, Narrator
TVFortitude
2015
as DCI Morton
MovieWild Card
2015
as Baby
MovieBing Crosby: Rediscovered
2014
as Self - Narrator (voice)
MovieThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014
as Caesar Flickerman
MovieEvolution Within Extinction
2014
as Self
TVBoJack Horseman
2014
as Herb Kazzaz (voice)
MovieTransformers: Age of Extinction
2014
as Joshua Joyce
MovieMuppets Most Wanted
2014
as Ivan the Guard
MovieSurviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2014
as Self - Caesar Flickerman
TVLate Night with Seth Meyers
2014
as Self - Guest
TVThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self
MovieMr. Peabody & Sherman
2014
as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
MovieSome Velvet Morning
2013
as Fred
MovieThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013
as Caesar Flickerman
MovieThe Fifth Estate
2013
as James Boswell
MoviePercy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013
as Mr. D / Dionysus
TVThe Frame
2013
as Caesar Flickerman
MovieJack the Giant Slayer
2013
as Roderick
MovieBlackout
2013
MovieThe Company You Keep
2012
as Ray Fuller
MovieThe World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
as Self - Caesar Flickerman
MovieGambit
2012
as Martin Zaidenweber
MovieI'm Fast!
2012
as Train Engine
MovieThe Hunger Games
2012
as Caesar Flickerman
MovieMargin Call
2011
as Eric Dale
MovieCaptain America: The First Avenger
2011
as Dr. Abraham Erskine
MovieFight for Your Right Revisited
2011
as Father
MovieThe Making of Easy A
2010
as Self
MovieBurlesque
2010
as Sean
MovieEasy A
2010
as Dill
MovieSpace Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
2010
as Senator (voice)
MovieCasino Jack and the United States of Money
2010
as Jack Abramoff (voice)
MovieThe Lovely Bones
2009
as George Harvey
MovieJulie & Julia
2009
as Paul Child
TVWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
as Self - Guest
MovieThe Tale of Despereaux
2008
as Boldo (voice)
MovieWhat Just Happened
2008
as Scott Solomon
MovieBlind Date
2008
as Don
MovieSwing Vote
2008
as Martin Fox
MovieKit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008
as Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk
MovieSpace Chimps
2008
as Senator (voice)
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
TVThe Graham Norton Show
2007
as Self
MovieFour Last Songs
2007
as Larry
TV3 lbs
2006
as Douglas Hanson
MovieThe Hoax
2006
as Shelton Fisher
TV30 Rock
2006
as Henry Warren
MovieThe Devil Wears Prada
2006
as Nigel
Movie10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada
2006
as Self
MovieEdge of Outside
2006
as Self
MovieLucky Number Slevin
2006
as Det. Brikowski
MovieTimescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
2005
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRobots
2005
as Herb Copperbottom (voice)
TVRobot Chicken
2005
as Rich Uncle Pennybags / Party Host (voice)
TVAmerican Dad!
2005
as Lorenzo (voice)
MovieIrving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
2005
as Narrator
MovieShall We Dance?
2004
as Link
MovieThe Life and Death of Peter Sellers
2004
as Stanley Kubrick
MovieThe Terminal
2004
as Frank Dixon
MovieSpin
2003
as Frank Haley
MovieThe Core
2003
as Dr. Conrad Zimsky
MovieMaid in Manhattan
2002
as Jerry Siegel
MovieGene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
2002
as Narrator (voice)
MovieRoad to Perdition
2002
as Frank Nitti
TVMonk
2002
as David Ruskin
MovieBig Trouble
2002
as Arthur Herk
MovieSundance 20
2002
as Himself
MovieSidewalks of New York
2001
as Griffin
MovieAmerica's Sweethearts
2001
as Dave Kingman
MovieConspiracy
2001
as Adolf Eichmann
MovieThe Whole Shebang
2001
as Giovanni Bazinni
MovieTop Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker
2001
as Narrator
TVBull
2000
as Hunter Lasky
MovieJoe Gould's Secret
2000
as Joe Mitchell
TVThe Early Show
1999
as Self
MovieIn Too Deep
1999
as Preston D'Ambrosio
TVIndependent Lens
1999
MovieA Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
as Puck
MovieWinchell
1998
as Walter Winchell
MovieThe Alarmist
1998
as Heinrich Grigoris
MovieThe Impostors
1998
as Arthur
MovieMontana
1998
as Nicholas 'Nick' Roth
MovieDeconstructing Harry
1997
as Paul Epstein
MovieA Life Less Ordinary
1997
as Elliot Zweikel
TVThe View
1997
as Self
MovieThe Daytrippers
1997
as Louis D'Amico
MovieThe Eighteenth Angel
1997
as Todd Stanton
MovieSex and the Other Man
1996
as Arthur Wilkins
MovieBig Night
1996
as Secondo
MovieA Modern Affair
1996
as Peter Kessler
TVThe Rosie O'Donnell Show
1996
as Self - Guest
TVMurder One
1995
as Richard Cross
MovieKiss of Death
1995
as Frank Zioli
MovieJury Duty
1995
as Frank
MovieSomebody to Love
1994
as George
TVER
1994
as Kevin Moretti
MovieMrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
as Fred Hunter
MovieIt Could Happen to You
1994
as Eddie Biasi
MovieThe Pelican Brief
1993
as Khamel
TVFrasier
1993
as Morrie (voice)
MovieUndercover Blues
1993
as Muerte
MovieIn the Soup
1992
as Gregoire
MovieThe Public Eye
1992
as Sal
MovieThe Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
as Amos (uncredited)
MoviePrelude to a Kiss
1992
as Taylor
MovieBeethoven
1992
as Vernon
MovieBilly Bathgate
1991
as Lucky Luciano
MovieMen Of Respect
1990
as Mal
Lifestories
1990
as Art Conforti
MovieQuick Change
1990
as Johnny
MovieRevealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
1990
as Det. Patrick McGuire
TVEqual Justice
1990
as Frank Mirelli
MovieFear, Anxiety and Depression
1989
as Donny
MovieThe Feud
1989
as Harvey Yelton
MovieSlaves of New York
1989
as Darryl
TVLIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
as Self - Guest
MovieMonkey Shines
1988
as Dr. John Wiseman
TVthirtysomething
1987
TVWiseguy
1987
MovieWho's That Girl
1987
as 2nd Dock Worker
MovieKojak: The Price of Justice
1987
as 1st Tenant
TVThe Equalizer
1985
as Assemblyman Phillip Wingate
MoviePrizzi's Honor
1985
as Soldier
TVMiami Vice
1984
as Frank Mosca
TVJeopardy!
1984
as Self - Clue Presenter
TVAmerican Playhouse
1982
as Harvey Yelton
TVSaturday Night Live
1975
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
TVTony Awards
1956
as Self
Tucci in Great Britain
as Self
