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

The Hunger Games Not in library

The Hunger Games

2012

Captain America: The First Avenger Not in library

Captain America: The First Avenger

2011

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Not in library

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

2013

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 Not in library

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

2014

Beauty and the Beast Not in library

Beauty and the Beast

2017

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 Not in library

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

2015

The Devil Wears Prada Not in library

The Devil Wears Prada

2006

Spotlight Not in library

Spotlight

2015

Transformers: Age of Extinction Not in library

Transformers: Age of Extinction

2014

The Terminal Not in library

The Terminal

2004

Acting

2028 A Sleigh of One's Own as Santa Claus
2026 The Devil Wears Prada 2 as Nigel Kipling In Library
2025 The Electric State as Ethan Skate
2025 Fountain of Youth as The Elder
2025 PARASOCIAL as Self (archive footage)
2025 Tucci in Italy as Self - Host (5 episodes)
2024 Conclave as Bellini
2024 Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special as Self - Audience Member
2023 Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic as Self
2023 Citadel as Bernard Orlick (7 episodes)
2022 Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody as Clive Davis
2022 Inside Man as Jefferson Grieff (4 episodes)
2022 Be My Guest with Ina Garten as Self (1 episode)
2021 The King's Man as United States Ambassador
2021 Jolt as Dr. Ivan Munchin
2021 Worth as Charles Wolf
2021 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy as Self - Host (14 episodes)
2021 What If...? as Dr. Erskine (voice) (2 episodes)
2021 Moley as Mish Mosh (voice) (52 episodes)
2021 La Fortuna as Frank Wild (6 episodes)
2020 Supernova as Tusker
2020 Roald Dahl's The Witches as Mr Stringer
2020 Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip as Walter Winchell
2020 Central Park as Bitsy (voice) (39 episodes)
2020 Some Good News as Self (1 episode)
2019 Night Hunter as Commissioner Harper
2019 The Silence as Hugh Andrews
2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self - Guest (3 episodes)
2019 Limetown as Emile Haddock (10 episodes)
2018 Patient Zero as The Professor
2018 Submission as Ted Swenson
2018 The Children Act as Jack Maye
2018 Show Dogs as Philippe (voice)
2018 A Private War as Tony Shaw
2017 Beauty and the Beast as Maestro Cadenza
2017 Transformers: The Last Knight as Merlin
2017 FEUD as Jack Warner (8 episodes)
2016 Battle at Versailles as Narrator (voice)
2015 Wild Card as Baby
2015 A Little Chaos as Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
2015 Spotlight as Mitchell Garabedian
2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Caesar Flickerman
2015 Peter & Wendy as Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
2015 The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self - Caesar Flickerman
2015 Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant as Publishing Executive
2015 Fortitude as DCI Morton (11 episodes)
2015 The Italian Americans as Self, Narrator (4 episodes)
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self (1 episode)
2014 Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Self - Caesar Flickerman
2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction as Joshua Joyce
2014 Muppets Most Wanted as Ivan the Guard
2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Caesar Flickerman
2014 Evolution Within Extinction as Self
2014 Bing Crosby: Rediscovered as Self - Narrator (voice)
2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
2014 BoJack Horseman as Herb Kazzaz (voice) (11 episodes)
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self (1 episode)
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer as Roderick
2013 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as Mr. D / Dionysus
2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Caesar Flickerman
2013 The Fifth Estate as James Boswell
2013 Some Velvet Morning as Fred
2013 Blackout
2013 The Frame as Caesar Flickerman (1 episode)
2012 The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games as Self - Caesar Flickerman
2012 The Hunger Games as Caesar Flickerman
2012 The Company You Keep as Ray Fuller
2012 Gambit as Martin Zaidenweber
2012 I'm Fast! as Train Engine
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger as Dr. Abraham Erskine
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited as Father
2011 Margin Call as Eric Dale
2010 Burlesque as Sean
2010 Easy A as Dill
2010 Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back as Senator (voice)
2010 Casino Jack and the United States of Money as Jack Abramoff (voice)
2010 The Making of Easy A as Self
2009 The Lovely Bones as George Harvey
2009 Julie & Julia as Paul Child
2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest (1 episode)
2008 Swing Vote as Martin Fox
2008 Space Chimps as Senator (voice)
2008 Blind Date as Don
2008 Kit Kittredge: An American Girl as Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk
2008 What Just Happened as Scott Solomon
2008 The Tale of Despereaux as Boldo (voice)
2008 Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2007 Four Last Songs as Larry
2007 The Graham Norton Show as Self (5 episodes)
2006 Lucky Number Slevin as Det. Brikowski
2006 The Devil Wears Prada as Nigel
2006 Edge of Outside as Self
2006 The Hoax as Shelton Fisher
2006 10 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada as Self
2006 3 lbs as Douglas Hanson (8 episodes)
2006 30 Rock as Henry Warren (1 episode)
2005 Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood as Narrator
2005 Robots as Herb Copperbottom (voice)
2005 Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today as Narrator (voice)
2005 Robot Chicken as Rich Uncle Pennybags / Party Host (voice) (1 episode)
2005 American Dad! as Lorenzo (voice) (1 episode)
2004 The Terminal as Frank Dixon
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers as Stanley Kubrick
2004 Shall We Dance? as Link
2003 The Core as Dr. Conrad Zimsky
2003 Spin as Frank Haley
2002 Big Trouble as Arthur Herk
2002 Road to Perdition as Frank Nitti
2002 Maid in Manhattan as Jerry Siegel
2002 Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer as Narrator (voice)
2002 Sundance 20 as Himself
2002 Monk as David Ruskin (1 episode)
2001 Sidewalks of New York as Griffin
2001 America's Sweethearts as Dave Kingman
2001 The Whole Shebang as Giovanni Bazinni
2001 Conspiracy as Adolf Eichmann
2001 Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker as Narrator
2000 Joe Gould's Secret as Joe Mitchell
2000 Bull as Hunter Lasky (22 episodes)
1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck
1999 In Too Deep as Preston D'Ambrosio
1999 The Early Show as Self (1 episode)
1999 Independent Lens
1998 Montana as Nicholas 'Nick' Roth
1998 The Impostors as Arthur
1998 The Alarmist as Heinrich Grigoris
1998 Winchell as Walter Winchell
1997 Deconstructing Harry as Paul Epstein
1997 A Life Less Ordinary as Elliot Zweikel
1997 The Eighteenth Angel as Todd Stanton
1997 The Daytrippers as Louis D'Amico
1997 The View as Self (2 episodes)
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 (1 episode)
1995 Kiss of Death as Frank Zioli
1995 Jury Duty as Frank
1995 Murder One as Richard Cross (23 episodes)
1994 It Could Happen to You as Eddie Biasi
1994 Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle as Fred Hunter
1994 Somebody to Love as George
1994 ER as Kevin Moretti (10 episodes)
1993 Undercover Blues as Muerte
1993 The Pelican Brief as Khamel
1993 Frasier as Morrie (voice) (1 episode)
1992 Prelude to a Kiss as Taylor
1992 The Public Eye as Sal
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Amos (uncredited)
1992 Beethoven as Vernon
1992 In the Soup as Gregoire
1991 Billy Bathgate as Lucky Luciano
1990 Quick Change as Johnny
1990 Men Of Respect as Mal
1990 Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler as Det. Patrick McGuire
1990 Lifestories as Art Conforti (9 episodes)
1990 Equal Justice as Frank Mirelli (1 episode)
1989 The Feud as Harvey Yelton
1989 Fear, Anxiety and Depression as Donny
1989 Slaves of New York as Darryl
1988 Monkey Shines as Dr. John Wiseman
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark as Self - Guest (2 episodes)
1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice as 1st Tenant
1987 Who's That Girl as 2nd Dock Worker
1987 thirtysomething
1987 Wiseguy
1985 Prizzi's Honor as Soldier
1985 The Equalizer as Assemblyman Phillip Wingate (1 episode)
1984 Miami Vice as Frank Mosca (2 episodes)
1984 Miami Vice as Steven DeMarco (1 episode)
1975 Saturday Night Live as Self - Cameo (uncredited) (1 episode)
1956 Tony Awards as Self (1 episode)
Sequestered - Inside Conclave as Self
Masterplan as Roger

Directing

2017 Final Portrait Director
2008 Blind Date Director
2000 Joe Gould's Secret Director
1998 The Impostors Director
1996 Big Night Director

Writing

2017 Final Portrait Screenplay
2008 Blind Date Screenplay
1998 The Impostors Writer
1996 Big Night Writer

Production

2025 Tucci in Italy Executive Producer
2023 Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico Executive Producer
2021 Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy Executive Producer
2016 Paint It Black Executive Producer
2010 Saint John of Las Vegas Executive Producer
2003 The Mudge Boy Producer
1998 The Impostors Producer