Stanley Tucci Biography

Stanley Tucci (born January 11 or November 11, 1960; sources differ) is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009), and won an Emmy Award for his performance in Winchell. He also was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for The One And Only Shrek.

Early life

Tucci was born in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in nearby Katonah, the son of Joan (née Tropiano), a secretary and writer, and Stanley Tucci, Sr., an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. His parents, both of Italian descent, had roots in Calabria. He is the oldest of three children; his sister is actress Christine Tucci. Screenwriter Joseph Tropiano is a cousin. During the early 1970s, the family spent a year living in Florence, Italy. He attended John Jay High School, followed by SUNY Purchase, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982.

Career

Tucci earned his Actors' Equity card that same year when actress Colleen Dewhurst, the mother of Tucci's high-school friend, actor Campbell Scott, arranged for the two young men to have parts as soldiers in a Broadway play in which she was co-starring, The Queen and the Rebels, premiering September 30, 1982. His film debut was in Prizzi's Honor (1985). He performed at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1991 in a Molière play. Tucci is known for his work in films such as The Pelican Brief, Beethoven, Kiss of Death, Road to Perdition and Big Night, and in the television series Murder One as the mysterious Richard Cross. Big Night (1996), which he starred in, co-wrote with his cousin Joseph Tropiano, and co-directed with Scott, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film also featured his sister Christine and their mother, who wrote a cookbook for the film. It won him and Tropiano the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

He has been nominated three times for Golden Globes, and won twice " for his title role in Winchell (1998), and for his supporting role as Adolph Eichmann in Conspiracy (2001), both for HBO films. He also received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Winchell. He was nominated for Broadway's Tony Award as Best Actor in a Play for his role as Johnny in the 2002 revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.

In 2004, Caedmon Audio released an audiobook of Tucci reading Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions.

In July 2006, Tucci made an appearance on the USA Network TV series Monk, in a performance that earned him a 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor " Comedy Series. Tucci's TV series, the medical drama 3 lbs., debuted on CBS in the 10:00 pm EDT time slot on November 14, 2006. It was canceled on November 30, 2006 due to low ratings. He can be heard as the voice over in the AT&T Wireless "Raising the Bar" marketing campaign. Tucci also played Nigel in the screen adaption of The Devil Wears Prada alongside Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt and Anne Hathaway. In 2007, Tucci had a recurring role in medical drama ER. In 2009, Tucci again starred opposite Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia playing husband Paul Child to her Julia Child.

That same year, Tucci portrayed George Harvey, a pedophile and serial killer of young girls, in The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel, for which he received high critical praise and Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. To prepare for the role, he consulted with retired FBI profiler John Douglas.

In 2010, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub. Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in Captain America: The First Avenger.

On May 9, 2011, it was announced that Tucci would play Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games film (released in 2012). Tucci also played a lead role in Margin Call (2011), as a banker right before the financial crisis, appeared with Colin Firth in Gambit (2012), a remake of a 1966 film, played the lead human villain in Jack the Giant Slayer (2013), and had a supporting role as Dionysus (Mr. D) in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013). He will reprise his role in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

In July 2010, it was announced that Tucci will direct an upcoming comedy entitled Mommy & Me starring Meryl Streep and Tina Fey as mother and daughter. He is also expected to star in David Yates' psychological drama film Your Voice in My Head.

Tucci was co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York. His cookbook, The Tucci Cookbook, was released in autumn 2012. On September 24, 2013, Variety and Entertainment Weekly reported that Tucci will guest voice-star in the long-running adult animated series American Dad!, the episode slated to air as part of the show's 10th season (2013"14).

Personal life

Tucci's first wife was Kathryn Louise Spath-Tucci (1962"2009), also known as Kate Tucci, who died of breast cancer. She was a social worker and the former wife of actor and stage manager Alexander R. Scott, the elder son of actors Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott. She and Tucci married in 1995 and had three children: twins Isabel Concetta and Nicolo Robert (born in 2000) and Camilla (born in 2002). The couple also raised Spath-Tucci's two children from her previous marriage.

In 2011, Tucci became engaged to Felicity Blunt, an English literary agent and the elder sister of Tucci's The Devil Wears Prada co-star Emily Blunt, who introduced the couple several years after they worked together on Prada. Tucci and Blunt married in a civil service in summer 2012, followed by a larger ceremony at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29, 2012.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Prizzi's Honor	Soldier
1987	Who's That Girl	2nd Dock Worker
1988	Monkey Shines	Dr. John Wiseman
1989	Slaves of New York	Darryl
	Fear, Anxiety, & Depression	Donny
1990	The Feud	Harvey Yelton
	Quick Change	Johnny
1991	Men of Respect	Mal
	Billy Bathgate	Lucky Luciano
1992	In the Soup	Gregoire
	Beethoven	Vernon
	Prelude to a Kiss	Taylor
	The Public Eye	Sal
1993	Undercover Blues	Muerte
	The Pelican Brief	Khamel
1994	It Could Happen to You	Eddie Biasi
	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle	Fred Hunter
	Somebody to Love	George
1995	Jury Duty	Frank/Billy
	Kiss of Death	Frank Zioli
	Sex & the Other Man	Arthur
	A Modern Affair	Peter Kessler
1996	The Daytrippers	Louis D'Amico
	Big Night	Secondo	Writer/Director/Co-Producer Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best New Director Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best New Director Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Nominated " Deaiville Film Festivals Grand Special Prize Award Nominated " Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film Nominated " Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor Nominated " Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated " Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature
1997	Deconstructing Harry	Paul Epstein
	The Alarmist	Heinrich Grigoris
	A Life Less Ordinary	Elliot Zweikel
1998	The Eighteenth Angel	Todd Stanton
	Montana	Nicholas Roth
	The Impostors	Arthur	Writer/Director/Producer
	Winchell	Walter Winchell	TV Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated " Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Puck
	In Too Deep	Preston D'Ambrosio
2000	Joe Gould's Secret	Joe Mitchell	Director/Producer
2001	Sidewalks of New York	Griffin Risto
	America's Sweethearts	Dave Kingman
	The Whole Shebang	Giovanni Bazinni
	Conspiracy	Adolf Eichmann	TV Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated " Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated " Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2002	Big Trouble	Arthur Herk
	Road to Perdition	Frank Nitti
	Maid in Manhattan	Jerry Siegel
2003	The Core	Dr. Conrad Zimsky
	Spin	Frank Haley
2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers	Stanley Kubrick
	The Terminal	Frank Dixon
	Shall We Dance?	Link
2005	Robots	Herb Copperbottom	Voice Only
2006	Lucky Number Slevin	Det. Brikowski
	The Devil Wears Prada	Nigel
2007	Four Last Songs	Larry
	The Hoax	Shelton Fisher
2008	Blind Date	Don	Writer/Director
	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl	Mr. Berk
	Space Chimps	The Senator	Voice Only
	Swing Vote	Martin Fox
	What Just Happened	Scott Solomon
	The Tale of Despereaux	Boldo	Voice Only
2009	Julie & Julia	Paul Child
	The Lovely Bones	George Harvey	Nominated " Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated " Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor " Motion Picture Nominated " Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated " Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
2010	Easy A	Dill Penderghast	Nominated " Comedy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
	Burlesque	Sean
	Margin Call	Eric Dale	Nominated " Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger	Dr. Abraham Erskine	Nominated " Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2012	The Hunger Games	Caesar Flickerman
	Gambit	Zaidenweber
	The Company You Keep	Ray Fuller
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	Lord Roderick
	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Dionysus (Mr. D)
	The Fifth Estate	James Boswell	post production
	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire	Caesar Flickerman	post production
2014	Mr. Peabody & Sherman	Voice
	A Little Chaos		Filming
	Heat	Baby	Filming
	Transformers: Age of Extinction	Joshua	filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Crime Story	Zack Lowman	1 episode: "The Battle of Las Vegas"
1987	Kojak: The Price of Justice (1987)	1st Tenant	Unknown episodes
1988	The Street	Arthur Scolari	Unknown episodes
1986"1988	Miami Vice	Frank Mosca, Steven Demarco	3 episodes
1988	The Equalizer	Assymblyman Phillip Wingate	1 episode: "The Last Campaign"
1988"1989	Wiseguy	Rick Pinzolo	5 episodes
1989"1990	thirtysomething	Karl Draconis	2 episodes
1990	Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Stranger	Detective Patrick McGuire	Television movie
1990	Lifestories	Art Conforti	1 episode: "Art Conforti"
1990"1991	Equal Justice	Detective Frank Mirelli	3 episodes
1995"1996	Murder One	Richard Cross	23 episodes Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film Nominated " Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2000	Bull	Hunter Lasky	5 episodes
2004	Frasier	Morrie (caller)	1 episode: "Frasier-Lite"
2006	Monk	David Ruskin	1 episode: "Mr. Monk and the Actor" Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
2006	3 lbs.	Dr. Douglas Hanson	6 episodes
2007"2008	ER	Dr. Kevin Moretti	10 episodes Nominated " Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
2012	30 Rock	Henry Warren	1 episode: "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky"
2013	American Dad!	Guest voice-star	Season 10 episode