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

• 2028A Sleigh of One's Own — Santa Claus
• 2026Masterplan — Roger
• 2026The Devil Wears Prada 2 — Nigel
• 2025Fountain of Youth — The Elder
• 2025The Electric State — Ethan Skate
• Tucci in Italy — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2024Conclave — Bellini
• Citadel — Bernard Orlick
• Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico — Executive Producer
• Inside Man — Jefferson Grieff
• 2022Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody — Clive Davis
• 2021Jolt — Dr. Ivan Munchin
• La Fortuna — Frank Wild
• Moley — Mish Mosh (voice)
• Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2021The King's Man — United States Ambassador
• What If...? — Dr. Erskine (voice)
• 2021Worth — Charles Wolf
• Central Park — Bitsy (voice)
• 2020Roald Dahl's The Witches — Mr. Stringer
• 2020Supernova — Tusker
• 2020Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip — Walter Winchell
• Limetown — Emile Haddock
• 2019Night Hunter — Commissioner Harper
• 2019The Silence — Hugh Andrews
• 2018A Private War — Tony Shaw
• 2018Patient Zero — The Professor
• 2018Show Dogs — Philippe (voice)
• 2018Submission — Ted Swenson
• 2018The Children Act — Jack Maye
• 2017Beauty and the Beast — Maestro Cadenza
• FEUD — Jack Warner
• 2017Final Portrait — Director, Screenplay
• 2017Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft — Narrator
• 2017Transformers: The Last Knight — Merlin
• 2016Battle at Versailles — Narrator (voice)
• 2016Paint It Black — Executive Producer
• 2015A Little Chaos — Philippe, Duc d'Orleans
• Fortitude — DCI Morton
• 2015Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant — Publishing Executive
• 2015Peter & Wendy — Captain Hook/Mr. Darling/Dr. Wylie
• 2015Spotlight — Mitchell Garabedian
• 2015The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 — Caesar Flickerman
• The Italian Americans — Self, Narrator
• 2015Wild Card — Baby
• BoJack Horseman — Herb Kazzaz (voice)
• 2014Mr. Peabody & Sherman — Leonardo da Vinci (voice)
• 2014Muppets Most Wanted — Ivan the Guard
• 2014The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 — Caesar Flickerman
• 2014Transformers: Age of Extinction — Joshua Joyce
• 2013Blackout
• 2013Jack the Giant Slayer — Roderick
• 2013Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters — Mr. D / Dionysus
• 2013Some Velvet Morning — Fred
• 2013The Fifth Estate — James Boswell
• The Frame — Caesar Flickerman
• 2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Caesar Flickerman
• 2012Gambit — Martin Zaidenweber
• 2012I'm Fast! — Train Engine
• 2012The Company You Keep — Ray Fuller
• 2012The Hunger Games — Caesar Flickerman
• 2011Captain America: The First Avenger — Dr. Abraham Erskine
• 2011Fight for Your Right Revisited — Father
• 2011Margin Call — Eric Dale
• 2010Burlesque — Sean
• 2010Casino Jack and the United States of Money — Jack Abramoff (voice)
• 2010Easy A — Dill
• 2010Saint John of Las Vegas — Executive Producer
• 2010Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back — Senator (voice)
• 2009Julie & Julia — Paul Child
• 2009The Lovely Bones — George Harvey
• 2008Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
• 2008Blind Date — Don, Director, Screenplay
• 2008Kit Kittredge: An American Girl — Mr. Jefferson Jasper Rene Berk
• 2008Space Chimps — Senator (voice)
• 2008Swing Vote — Martin Fox
• 2008The Tale of Despereaux — Boldo (voice)
• 2008What Just Happened — Scott Solomon
• 2007Four Last Songs — Larry
• 3 lbs — Douglas Hanson
• 30 Rock — Henry Warren
• 2006Lucky Number Slevin — Det. Brikowski
• 2006The Devil Wears Prada — Nigel
• 2006The Hoax — Shelton Fisher
• American Dad! — Lorenzo (voice)
• 2005Irving Thalberg: Prince of Hollywood — Narrator
• Robot Chicken — Rich Uncle Pennybags / Party Host (voice)
• 2005Robots — Herb Copperbottom (voice)
• 2005Timescapes: A Multimedia Portrait of New York, 1609-Today — Narrator (voice)
• 2004Shall We Dance? — Link
• 2004The Life and Death of Peter Sellers — Stanley Kubrick
• 2004The Terminal — Frank Dixon
• 2003Spin — Frank Haley
• 2003The Core — Dr. Conrad Zimsky
• 2003The Mudge Boy — Producer
• 2002Big Trouble — Arthur Herk
• 2002Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer — Narrator (voice)
• 2002Maid in Manhattan — Jerry Siegel
• Monk — David Ruskin
• 2002Road to Perdition — Frank Nitti
• 2001America's Sweethearts — Dave Kingman
• 2001Conspiracy — Adolf Eichmann
• 2001Sidewalks of New York — Griffin
• 2001The Whole Shebang — Giovanni Bazinni
• 2001Top Hat and Tales: Harold Ross and the Making of the New Yorker — Narrator
• Bull — Hunter Lasky
• 2000Joe Gould's Secret — Joe Mitchell, Director
• 1999A Midsummer Night's Dream — Puck
• 1999In Too Deep — Preston D'Ambrosio
• 1998Montana — Nicholas 'Nick' Roth
• 1998The Alarmist — Heinrich Grigoris
• 1998The Impostors — Arthur, Writer, Director, Producer
• 1998Winchell — Walter Winchell
• 1997A Life Less Ordinary — Elliot Zweikel
• 1997Deconstructing Harry — Paul Epstein
• 1997The Daytrippers — Louis D'Amico
• 1997The Eighteenth Angel — Todd Stanton
• 1996A Modern Affair — Peter Kessler
• 1996Big Night — Secondo, Director, Writer
• 1996Sex and the Other Man — Arthur Wilkins
• 1995Jury Duty — Frank
• 1995Kiss of Death — Frank Zioli
• Murder One — Richard Cross
• ER — Kevin Moretti
• 1994It Could Happen to You — Eddie Biasi
• 1994Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — Fred Hunter
• 1994Somebody to Love — George
• Frasier — Morrie (voice)
• 1993The Pelican Brief — Khamel
• 1993Undercover Blues — Muerte
• 1992Beethoven — Vernon
• 1992In the Soup — Gregoire
• 1992Prelude to a Kiss — Taylor
• 1992The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag — Amos (uncredited)
• 1992The Public Eye — Sal
• 1991Billy Bathgate — Lucky Luciano
• Equal Justice — Frank Mirelli
• Lifestories — Art Conforti
• 1990Men Of Respect — Mal
• 1990Quick Change — Johnny
• 1990Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Strangler — Det. Patrick McGuire
• 1989Fear, Anxiety and Depression — Donny
• 1989Slaves of New York — Darryl
• 1989The Feud — Harvey Yelton
• 1988Monkey Shines — Dr. John Wiseman
• 1987Kojak: The Price of Justice — 1st Tenant
• 1987Who's That Girl — 2nd Dock Worker
• Wiseguy
• thirtysomething
• 1985Prizzi's Honor — Soldier
• The Equalizer — Assemblyman Phillip Wingate
• Miami Vice — Frank Mosca, Steven DeMarco
• American Playhouse — Harvey Yelton
• Tucci in Great Britain — Self, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (29)

• 2026The Devil Wears Prada 2 Red Carpet World Premiere — Self
• 2025PARASOCIAL — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Michael McIntyre's 25th Year Stand-Up Special — Self - Audience Member
• 2023Dick Van Dyke: 98 Years of Magic — Self
• Be My Guest with Ina Garten — Self
• Some Good News — Self
• The Kelly Clarkson Show — Self - Guest
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self, Self - Guest
• 2015The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 — Self - Caesar Flickerman
• 2014Bing Crosby: Rediscovered — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2014Evolution Within Extinction — Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Guest
• 2014Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — Self - Caesar Flickerman
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• 2012The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games — Self - Caesar Flickerman
• 2010The Making of Easy A — Self
• Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 200610 Most Excellent Things: The Devil Wears Prada — Self
• 2006Edge of Outside — Self
• 2002Sundance 20 — Self
• Independent Lens — Self - Host
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self
• The Rosie O'Donnell Show — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self - Guest
• Jeopardy! — Self - Clue Presenter
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited)
• Tony Awards — Self