Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci (/ˈtuːtʃi/; born November 11, 1960) is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director.[2][3]
He has won three Emmy Awards; two for his performances in Winchell and Monk, and one as a producer of Park Bench with Steve Buscemi. Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009). He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for The One and Only Shrek!.[4]
== Early life ==
Tucci was born in Peekskill, New York[5] and grew up in nearby Katonah.[6] His parents, Joan (née Tropiano), a secretary and writer, and Stanley Tucci, Sr.,[6][7]an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York,[8] both of Italian descent, had roots in Calabria.[9] Tucci is the oldest of three children;[6]his sister is actress Christine Tucci.[10] Screenwriter Joseph Tropiano is a cousin.[11] During the early 1970s, the family spent a year living in Florence, Italy.[9]
He attended John Jay High School,[6] where he played on the soccer team and baseball teams, although his main interest lay in the school's drama club, where he and fellow actor and high school buddy, Campbell Scott, son of actor George C. Scott, gave well-received performances at many of John Jay's drama club productions. Tucci then attended SUNY Purchase, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982.[6] Among his classmates at SUNY Purchase was fellow acting student, Ving Rhames. It was Tucci who gave Rhames, born Irving, the "Ving" nickname by which he is now known.[12]
== Career ==
Tucci earned his Actors' Equity card 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,[6]The Queen and the Rebels, premiering September 30, 1982. His film debut was in Prizzi's Honor (1985). He performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1991 in a Molière play.[13] 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 Adolf 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 Awardas 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 on November 14, 2006, but canceled that November 30 due to low ratings. He provides the voiceover in the AT&T Wireless "Raising the Bar" marketing campaign.[14] In 2007, he had a recurring role in medical drama ER.[15]
In 2009, Tucci portrayed George Harvey, a serial killer of young girls, in The Lovely Bones, Peter Jackson's adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel, for which he received Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. To prepare for the role, he consulted with retired FBI profiler John Douglas.[16] The following year, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub.[17] Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger.[18] He has appeared in such films as The Devil Wears Prada (2006) and Julie & Julia (2009), both opposite Meryl Streep, and as Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games and its sequels, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2. In 2013, he played the role of the Ancient Greek God Dionysus in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
Tucci then portrayed Kinetic Solutions Incorporated CEO Joshua Joyce in Transformers: Age of Extinction and then played wizard Merlin in its 2017 sequel Transformers: The Last Knight.
Tucci was co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York.[19]His cookbook, The Tucci Cookbook, was released in Autumn 2012.[9] 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).[20][21] In January 2015, Tucci was cast as one of the leading roles in Screen Gems horror-thriller film Patient Zero,[22] along with Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer.[23]
Tucci played the role of the composer Maestro Cadenza in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast.
Tucci played the husband of Dame Fiona Maye, a British High Court judge, opposite Emma Thompson in The Children Act, based on the novel by Ian McEwan (2017).
== Personal life ==
Tucci's first wife, Kathryn "Kate" Tucci (b. 1962), died of breast cancer in 2009.[24][25] She was a social worker and former wife of actor and stage manager Alexander R. Scott, the elder son of actors Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott.[26] She and Tucci married in 1995 and had three children.[27]The couple also raised Kate's two children from her previous marriage.[6][27]Tucci left his wife in 2002 and had an affair with the actress Edie Falco, with whom he was appearing on Broadway in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune but the affair ended and he returned to his wife and children.[28]
In 2011, Tucci became engaged to Felicity Blunt, an English literary agent. She is the elder sister of actress Emily Blunt, who co-starred with Tucci in The Devil Wears Prada and introduced the couple several years later at her own wedding.[29] Tucci and Blunt married in a civil ceremony in summer 2012,[30]followed by a larger observance at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29, 2012.[31] The couple live in Barnes, London[32] and have a son, Matteo Oliver (b. January 2015)[33] and a daughter, Emilia Giovanna (b. April 2018).[34]
On September 12, 2016, Tucci, as well as Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Peter Capaldi, Douglas Booth, Neil Gaiman, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Kit Harington, and Jesse Eisenberg, featured in a video from the United Nations'refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness to the global refugee crisis. The video, titled "What They Took With Them", has the actors reading a poem, written by Jenifer Toksvig and inspired by primary accounts of refugees, and is part of UNHCR's #WithRefugees campaign, of which also includes a petition to governments to expand asylum to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education.[35][36]
== 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 	
1989	Fear, Anxiety & Depression 	Donny 	
1990	The Feud 	Harvey Yelton 	
1990	Quick Change 	Johnny 	
1990	Men of Respect 	Mal 	
1991	Billy Bathgate 	Lucky Luciano 	
1992	In the Soup 	Gregoire 	
1992	Beethoven 	Vernon 	
1992	Prelude to a Kiss 	Taylor 	
1992	The Public Eye 	Sal 	
1993	Undercover Blues 	Muerte 	
1993	The Pelican Brief 	Khamel 	
1994	It Could Happen to You 	Eddie Biasi 	
1994	Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle 	Fred Hunter 	
1994	Somebody to Love 	George 	
1995	Jury Duty 	Frank/Billy 	
1995	Kiss of Death 	Frank Zioli 	
1995	Sex & the Other Man 	Arthur 	
1996	A Modern Affair 	Peter Kessler 	
1996	The Daytrippers 	Louis D'Amico 	
1996	Big Night 	Secondo 	Also writer, director and co-producer
1997	Deconstructing Harry 	Paul Epstein 	
1997	The Alarmist 	Heinrich Grigoris 	
1997	A Life Less Ordinary 	Elliot Zweikel 	
1998	The Eighteenth Angel 	Todd Stanton 	
1998	Montana 	Nicholas Roth 	
1998	The Impostors 	Arthur 	Also writer, director and producer
1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream 	Puck 	
1999	In Too Deep 	Preston D'Ambrosio 	
2000	Joe Gould's Secret 	Joe Mitchell 	Also director and producer
2001	Sidewalks of New York 	Griffin Risto 	
2001	America's Sweethearts 	Dave Kingman 	
2001	The Whole Shebang 	Giovanni Bazinni 	
2001	Conspiracy 	Adolf Eichmann 	
2002	Big Trouble 	Arthur Herk 	
2002	Road to Perdition 	Frank Nitti 	
2002	Maid in Manhattan 	Jerry Siegel 	
2003	The Core 	Dr. Conrad Zimsky 	
2003	Spin 	Frank Haley 	
2004	The Life and Death of Peter Sellers 	Stanley Kubrick 	
2004	The Terminal 	Frank Dixon 	
2004	Shall We Dance? 	Link 	
2005	Robots 	Herb Copperbottom (voice) 	
2006	Lucky Number Slevin 	Det. Brikowski 	
2006	The Devil Wears Prada 	Nigel Kipling 	
2006	The Hoax 	Shelton Fisher 	
2007	Four Last Songs 	Larry 	
2007	Blind Date 	Don 	Also writer and director
2008	Kit Kittredge: An American Girl 	Mr. Berk 	
2008	Space Chimps 	The Senator (voice) 	
2008	Swing Vote 	Martin Fox 	
2008	What Just Happened 	Scott Solomon 	
2008	The Tale of Despereaux 	Boldo (voice) 	
2009	Julie & Julia 	Paul Child 	
2009	The Lovely Bones 	George Harvey 	
2010	Easy A 	Dill Penderghast 	
2010	Burlesque 	Sean 	
2011	Margin Call 	Eric Dale 	
2011	Captain America: The First Avenger 	Abraham Erskine 	
2012	The Hunger Games 	Caesar Flickerman 	
2012	Gambit 	Zaidenweber 	
2012	The Company You Keep 	Ray Fuller 	
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer 	Lord Roderick 	
2013	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters 	Dionysus (Mr. D) 	
2013	The Fifth Estate 	James Boswell 	
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 	Caesar Flickerman 	
2013	Some Velvet Morning 	Fred 	
2014	The Wind Rises 	Giovanni Battista Caproni (voice)	
2014	Mr. Peabody & Sherman 	Leonardo da Vinci(voice) 	
2014	Muppets Most Wanted 	Ivan the Guard 	Cameo
2014	Transformers: Age of Extinction 	Joshua Joyce 	
2014	Wild Card 	Baby 	
2014	A Little Chaos 	Philippe I, Duke of Orléans 	
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 	Caesar Flickerman 	
2015	Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant	Publishing Executive 	
2015	Spotlight 	Mitchell Garabedian 	
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 	Caesar Flickerman 	
2017	Final Portrait 	 	Writer and director
2017	Beauty and the Beast 	Maestro Cadenza 	
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight 	Merlin 	
2017	The Children Act (My Lady) 	Jack 	
2017	Submission 	Ted Swenson 	
2018	Show Dogs 	Philippe (voice) 	
2018	Patient Zero 	The Professor 	
2018	A Private War 	Tony Shaw 	
2018	Nomis 	Commissioner Harper 	
2018	The Silence 	 	Post-production
=== Television ===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1987 	Crime Story 	Zack Lowman 	Episode: "The Battle of Las Vegas"
1987 	Kojak: The Price of Justice 	1st Tenant 	Television movie
1988 	The Street 	Arthur Scolari 	Unknown episodes
1986 	Miami Vice 	Steven Demarco 	Episode: "Baby Blues"
1987–88	Miami Vice 	Frank Mosca 	2 episodes
1988 	The Equalizer 	Assemblyman Phillip Wingate 	Episode: "The Last Campaign"
1988–89	Wiseguy 	Rick Pinzolo 	5 episodes
1989–90	thirtysomething 	Karl Draconis 	2 episodes
1990 	Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Stranger	Detective Patrick McGuire 	Television movie
1990 	Lifestories 	Art Conforti 	Episode: "Art Conforti"
1991 	Equal Justice 	Detective Frank Mirelli 	3 episodes
1995–96	Murder One 	Richard Cross 	22 episodes
1998 	Winchell 	Walter Winchell 	Television movie
2000 	Bull 	Hunter Lasky 	5 episodes
2001 	Conspiracy 	Adolf Eichmann 	Television movie
2004 	Frasier 	Morrie (caller) 	Episode: "Frasier-Lite"
2006 	Monk 	David Ruskin 	Episode: "Mr. Monk and the Actor"
2006 	3 lbs. 	Dr. Douglas Hanson 	6 episodes
2007–08	ER 	Dr. Kevin Moretti 	10 episodes
2012 	30 Rock 	Henry Warren 	Episode: "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky"
2012 	Robot Chicken 	Rich Uncle Pennybags/Party Host (voices)	Episode: "Butchered in Burbank"
2013 	American Dad! 	Lorenzo (voice) 	Episode: "Permanent Record Wrecker"
2014–15	BoJack Horseman 	Herb Kazzaz (voice) 	8 episodes
2015 	Fortitude 	DCI Eugene Morton 	9 episodes
2015 	The Italian Americans 	Narrator 	4 episodes
2015 	Peter & Wendy 	Captain Hook/Fit Surgeon/Mr. Darling 	Television movie
2017 	Feud: Bette and Joan 	Jack L. Warner 	6 episodes
== Awards and nominations ==
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Stanley Tucci