Stanley Tucci Jr. (/ˈtuːtʃi/ TOO-chee; Italian pronunciation: [ˈtuttʃi]; 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
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Nigel Kipling
2026
Fountain of Youth
The Elder
2025
Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special
Self - Audience Member
2024
Conclave
Bellini
2024
The King's Man
United States Ambassador
2021
Worth
Charles Wolf
2021
Jolt
Dr. Ivan Munchin
2021
Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
Self - Host · (14 episodes)
2021
Supernova
Tusker
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Mr Stringer
2020
Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip
Walter Winchell
2020
Night Hunter
Commissioner Harper
2019
The Silence
Hugh Andrews
2019
A Private War
Tony Shaw
2018
The Children Act
Jack Maye
2018
Show Dogs
Philippe (voice)
2018
Submission
Ted Swenson
2018
Transformers: The Last Knight
Merlin
2017
Battle at Versailles
Narrator (voice)
2016
Peter & Wendy
Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
2015
Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant
Publishing Executive
2015
The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1
Self (Caesar Flickerman)
2015
Bing Crosby: Rediscovered
Self - Narrator (voice)
2014
Blackout
2013
I'm Fast!
Train Engine
2012
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
3 LBS
Douglas Hanson · (8 episodes)
2006
The Hoax
Shelton Fisher
2006
Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today
Narrator (voice)
2005
Robots
Herb Copperbottom (voice)
2005
Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer
Narrator (voice)
2002
Monk
David Ruskin · (1 episode)
2002
The View
Self · (2 episodes)
1997
The Daily Show
Self · (1 episode)
1996
The Pelican Brief
Khamel
1993
In the Soup
Gregoire
1992
Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler
Det. Patrick McGuire
1990
Slaves of New York
Darryl
1989
thirtysomething
(2 episodes)
1987
Who's That Girl
2nd Dock Worker
1987
Kojak: The Price of Justice
1st Tenant
1987
Prizzi's Honor
Soldier
1985
Sequestered - Inside Conclave
Self
Tucci in Italy
Self - Host · (5 episodes)
2025
The Electric State
Ethan Skate
2025
Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic
Self
2023
Citadel
Bernard Orlick · (7 episodes)
2023
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
Clive Davis
2022
Inside Man
Jefferson Grieff · (4 episodes)
2022
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
Self · (1 episode)
2022
Moley
Mish Mosh (voice) · (52 episodes)
2021
La Fortuna
Frank Wild · (6 episodes)
2021
What If...?
Dr. Erskine (voice) · (2 episodes)
2021
Central Park
Bitsy (voice) · (39 episodes)
2020
Some Good News
Self · (1 episode)
2020
Limetown
Emile Haddock · (10 episodes)
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
(3 episodes)
2019
Patient Zero
The Professor
2018
Beauty and the Beast
Maestro Cadenza
2017
FEUD
Jack Warner · (8 episodes)
2017
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
Caesar Flickerman
2015
Spotlight
Mitchell Garabedian
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self · (1 episode)
2015
A Little Chaos
Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
2015
The Italian Americans
Narrator · (4 episodes)
2015
Fortitude
DCI Morton · (11 episodes)
2015
Wild Card
Baby
2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Caesar Flickerman
2014
Evolution Within Extinction
Self
2014
BoJack Horseman
Herb Kazzaz (voice) · (11 episodes)
2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Joshua Joyce
2014
Muppets Most Wanted
Ivan the Guard
2014
Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Self (Caesar Flickerman)
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self · (2 episodes)
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self · (1 episode)
2014
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
2014
Some Velvet Morning
Fred
2013
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Caesar Flickerman
2013
The Fifth Estate
James Boswell
2013
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Mr. D / Dionysus
2013
The Frame
Caesar Flickerman · (1 episode)
2013
Jack the Giant Slayer
Roderick
2013
The Company You Keep
Ray Fuller
2012
The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
Self (Caesar Flickerman)
2012
Gambit
Martin Zaidenweber
2012
The Hunger Games
Caesar Flickerman
2012
Honest Trailers
Caesar Flickerman (archive footage) · (2 episodes)
2012
Honest Trailers
Abraham Erskine (archive footage) · (1 episode)
2012
Margin Call
Eric Dale
2011
Captain America: The First Avenger
Dr. Abraham Erskine
2011
Fight for Your Right Revisited
Father
2011
The Making of Easy A
Self
2010
Burlesque
Sean
2010
Easy A
Dill
2010
Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back
Senator (voice)
2010
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Jack Abramoff (voice)
2010
The Lovely Bones
George Harvey
2009
Julie & Julia
Paul Child
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
2009
The Tale of Despereaux
Boldo (voice)
2008
What Just Happened
Scott Solomon
2008
Blind Date
Don
2008
Swing Vote
Martin Fox
2008
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk
2008
Space Chimps
Senator (voice)
2008
The Graham Norton Show
Self · (5 episodes)
2007
Four Last Songs
Larry
2007
30 Rock
Henry Warren · (1 episode)
2006
The Devil Wears Prada
Nigel
2006
Edge of Outside
Self
2006
Lucky Number Slevin
Det. Brikowski
2006
Robot Chicken
Rich Uncle Pennybags / Party Host (voice) · (1 episode)
2005
American Dad!
Lorenzo (voice) · (1 episode)
2005
Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood
Narrator
2005
Shall We Dance?
Link
2004
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Stanley Kubrick
2004
The Terminal
Frank Dixon
2004
Spin
Frank Haley
2003
The Core
Dr. Conrad Zimsky
2003
Maid in Manhattan
Jerry Siegel
2002
Road to Perdition
Frank Nitti
2002
Big Trouble
Arthur Herk
2002
Sidewalks of New York
Griffin
2001
America's Sweethearts
Dave Kingman
2001
Conspiracy
Adolf Eichmann
2001
The Whole Shebang
Giovanni Bazinni
2001
Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker
Narrator
2001
Bull
Hunter Lasky · (22 episodes)
2000
Bull
(1 episode)
2000
Joe Gould's Secret
Joe Mitchell
2000
The Early Show
Self · (1 episode)
1999
In Too Deep
Preston D'Ambrosio
1999
Independent Lens
(527 episodes)
1999
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Puck
1999
Winchell
Walter Winchell
1998
The Alarmist
Heinrich Grigoris
1998
The Impostors
Arthur
1998
Montana
Nicholas 'Nick' Roth
1998
Deconstructing Harry
Paul Epstein
1997
A Life Less Ordinary
Elliot Zweikel
1997
The Daytrippers
Louis D'Amico
1997
The Eighteenth Angel
Todd Stanton
1997
Sex and the Other Man
Arthur Wilkins
1996
Big Night
Secondo
1996
A Modern Affair
Peter Kessler
1996
The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1996
Murder One
Richard Cross · (23 episodes)
1995
Kiss of Death
Frank Zioli
1995
Jury Duty
Frank
1995
Somebody to Love
George
1994
ER
Kevin Moretti · (10 episodes)
1994
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Fred Hunter
1994
It Could Happen to You
Eddie Biasi
1994
Frasier
Morrie (voice) · (1 episode)
1993
Undercover Blues
Muerte
1993
The Public Eye
Sal
1992
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Amos (uncredited)
1992
Prelude to a Kiss
Taylor
1992
Beethoven
Vernon
1992
Billy Bathgate
Lucky Luciano
1991
Men Of Respect
Mal
1990
Lifestories
Art Conforti · (9 episodes)
1990
Quick Change
Johnny
1990
Equal Justice
Frank Mirelli · (1 episode)
1990
Fear, Anxiety and Depression
Donny
1989
The Feud
Harvey Yelton
1989
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Self - Guest · (1 episode)
1988
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
(1 episode)
1988
Monkey Shines
Dr. John Wiseman
1988
Wiseguy
(5 episodes)
1987
The Equalizer
Assemblyman Phillip Wingate · (1 episode)
1985
Miami Vice
Frank Mosca · (2 episodes)
1984
Miami Vice
Steven DeMarco · (1 episode)
1984
Saturday Night Live
Self - Cameo (uncredited) · (1 episode)
1975
Tony Awards
Self · (1 episode)
1956