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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).

Filmography

2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2

as Nigel Kipling

Movie
2025
Fountain of Youth

as The Elder

Movie
2025
The Electric State

as Ethan Skate

Movie
2024
Conclave

as Bellini

Movie
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches

as Mr Stringer

Movie
2017
Transformers: The Last Knight

as Merlin

Movie
2017
Beauty and the Beast

as Maestro Cadenza

Movie
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2

as Caesar Flickerman

Movie
2015
A Little Chaos

as Philippe, Duc d'Orleans

Movie
2015
Wild Card

as Baby

Movie
2014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

as Caesar Flickerman

Movie
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction

as Joshua Joyce

Movie
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

as Caesar Flickerman

Movie
2013
Jack the Giant Slayer

as Roderick

Movie
2012
The Hunger Games

as Caesar Flickerman

Movie
2011
Margin Call

as Eric Dale

Movie
2011
Captain America: The First Avenger

as Dr. Abraham Erskine

Movie
2010
Easy A

as Dill

Movie
2006
The Devil Wears Prada

as Nigel

Movie
2006
Lucky Number Slevin

as Det. Brikowski

Movie
2005
Robots

as Herb Copperbottom (voice)

Movie
2004
The Terminal

as Frank Dixon

Movie
2003
The Core

as Dr. Conrad Zimsky

Movie
2002
Maid in Manhattan

as Jerry Siegel

Movie
1993
The Pelican Brief

as Khamel

Movie
1992
Beethoven

as Vernon

Movie