Stanley Tucci is an Academy Award nominated actor known for his versatility as an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, countless television shows and more than a dozen plays on and off Broadway.
Tucci reached his widest audience yet in the role of Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games franchise. A box office sensation and critical success, the fourth and final installment of the series (Mocking Jay) was released on November 20, 2015.
Recently Tucci can be seen in the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning CNN travel and food series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. In this beloved series, he travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines. You can also find him inCitadel, an action-packed spy TV mini-series and The Inside Man, a BBC and Netflix four-part miniseries created by Steven Moffat about a prisoner on death row in the US and a woman trapped in a cellar under an English vicarage, who cross paths in the most unexpected way. Additionally, Tucci starred opposite Naomi Ackie and Nafessa Williams in the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, where he plays legendary record exec Clive Davis. Coming up for Tucci, you can find him in Conclave, a conspiracy thriller where he stars alongside Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini and The Electric State, directed by the Russo brothers, a film based on adaptation of the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag and is set in a retro-futuristic past, where an orphaned teenager traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.
Acclaimed for his work in all mediums, Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, SAG Award and received a Broadcast Film Critics nomination for his performance in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. He also won an Emmy and Golden Globe for his starring role as the fast-talking tabloid tattler Walter Winchell in the Paul Mazurksy-directed TV movie Winchell. He received another Golden Globe for his brilliant portrayal of Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann in HBO’s Conspiracy.
With so many accolades for his performances on the screen, it is no surprise that his work as writer, producer and director are also widely celebrated. Big Night, Stanley Tucci’s first pursuit as co-director, co-screenwriter and actor on the same film, earned him numerous honors, including The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, Recognition of Excellence by the National Board of Review, an Independent Spirit Award, The Critics’ Prize at the 1996 Deauville Film Festival, and honors from The New York Film Critics and The Boston Society of Film Critics.
Following this success, he directed and co-starred as famed New Yorker staff writer Joseph Mitchell in Joe Gould’s Secret, opposite Ian Holm in the title role; executive produced Behind the Sun, starring Rodrigo Santoro; co-wrote, directed, and starred in Blind Date (a remake of the 1996 Theo Van Gogh film); and produced the Ivan Kavanagh horror film, The Canal.
Tucci’s additional film credits in front of the camera include The Kings Man, Supernova, The Witches, Jolt, A Private War, The Silence, Night Hunter, Spotlight, Patient Zero, Show Dogs, Final Portrait, Feud, The Children’s Act, Beauty and the Beast, Transformers: The Last Knight, A Little Chaos, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Wild Card, Muppets Most Wanted, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Some Velvet Morning, The Fifth Estate, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, The Company You Keep, Jack the Giant Slayer, Captain America: The First Avenger, Margin Call, Burlesque, Easy A, Julie & Julia, The Tale of Despereaux, Kit Kitteredge: An American Girl, Swing Vote, What Just Happened, The Devil Wears Prada, Shall We Dance, The Terminal, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Spin, Road to Perdition, America’s Sweethearts, Sidewalks of New York, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Alarmist, Deconstructing Harry, The Daytrippers, Big Trouble, A Life Less Ordinary, Kiss of Death, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, It Could Happen to You, The Pelican Brief, Prelude to A Kiss, In the Soup, Billy Bathgate and Slaves of New York.
His work on television includes Central Park, La Fortuna, Limetown, BoJack Horseman, American Masters, Feud, Fortitude, American Dad, Robot Chicken, 30 Rock, Metropolis, Fortitude, Bull, Equal Justice, Wiseguy, The Equalizer, thirtysomething and The Street. He also played Captain Hook in ITV’s two-hour drama, Peter & Wendy, alongside Laura Fraser and Paloma Faith. Tucci received Emmy nominations for his work in Murder One and ER, and an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Monk.
Tucci made his directorial debut on Broadway with a revival of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor starring Tony Shalhoub. The production received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play.
Stanley’s theater work includes Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Execution of Hope, The Iceman Cometh, Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Misanthrope. He has also performed in a number of off-Broadway plays at Yale Repertory Theater and SUNY Purchase, where he first studied acting.
The Tucci Cookbook, released in October 2012, appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers List. His second cookbook, The Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends, was released on October 28, 2014. The family-focused cookbook includes recipes from Tucci’s traditional Italian roots as well as those of his British wife, Felicity Blunt. He just released his third cookbook in October 2021, Taste: My Life Through Food, an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen and an instant New York Times Bestseller.
Although Stanley currently resides in London, he continues to serve on the Board of Directors of The Food Bank for New York City.
Stanley Tucci is an Academy Award nominated actor known for his versatility as an actor, writer, director, and producer. He has appeared in over 100 films, countless television shows and more than a dozen plays on and off Broadway.
Tucci reached his widest audience yet in the role of Caesar Flickerman in The Hunger Games franchise. A box office sensation and critical success, the fourth and final installment of the series (Mocking Jay) was released on November 20, 2015.
Recently Tucci can be seen in the critically acclaimed, Emmy Award-winning CNN travel and food series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy. In this beloved series, he travels across Italy to discover the secrets and delights of the country’s regional cuisines. You can also find him inCitadel, an action-packed spy TV mini-series and The Inside Man, a BBC and Netflix four-part miniseries created by Steven Moffat about a prisoner on death row in the US and a woman trapped in a cellar under an English vicarage, who cross paths in the most unexpected way. Additionally, Tucci starred opposite Naomi Ackie and Nafessa Williams in the Whitney Houston biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, where he plays legendary record exec Clive Davis. Coming up for Tucci, you can find him in Conclave, a conspiracy thriller where he stars alongside Ralph Fiennes, John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini and The Electric State, directed by the Russo brothers, a film based on adaptation of the illustrated novel by Simon Stålenhag and is set in a retro-futuristic past, where an orphaned teenager traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.
Acclaimed for his work in all mediums, Tucci was nominated for an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, SAG Award and received a Broadcast Film Critics nomination for his performance in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. He also won an Emmy and Golden Globe for his starring role as the fast-talking tabloid tattler Walter Winchell in the Paul Mazurksy-directed TV movie Winchell. He received another Golden Globe for his brilliant portrayal of Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann in HBO’s Conspiracy.
With so many accolades for his performances on the screen, it is no surprise that his work as writer, producer and director are also widely celebrated. Big Night, Stanley Tucci’s first pursuit as co-director, co-screenwriter and actor on the same film, earned him numerous honors, including The Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, Recognition of Excellence by the National Board of Review, an Independent Spirit Award, The Critics’ Prize at the 1996 Deauville Film Festival, and honors from The New York Film Critics and The Boston Society of Film Critics.
Following this success, he directed and co-starred as famed New Yorker staff writer Joseph Mitchell in Joe Gould’s Secret, opposite Ian Holm in the title role; executive produced Behind the Sun, starring Rodrigo Santoro; co-wrote, directed, and starred in Blind Date (a remake of the 1996 Theo Van Gogh film); and produced the Ivan Kavanagh horror film, The Canal.
Tucci’s additional film credits in front of the camera include The Kings Man, Supernova, The Witches, Jolt, A Private War, The Silence, Night Hunter, Spotlight, Patient Zero, Show Dogs, Final Portrait, Feud, The Children’s Act, Beauty and the Beast, Transformers: The Last Knight, A Little Chaos, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Wild Card, Muppets Most Wanted, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Some Velvet Morning, The Fifth Estate, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, The Company You Keep, Jack the Giant Slayer, Captain America: The First Avenger, Margin Call, Burlesque, Easy A, Julie & Julia, The Tale of Despereaux, Kit Kitteredge: An American Girl, Swing Vote, What Just Happened, The Devil Wears Prada, Shall We Dance, The Terminal, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Spin, Road to Perdition, America’s Sweethearts, Sidewalks of New York, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Alarmist, Deconstructing Harry, The Daytrippers, Big Trouble, A Life Less Ordinary, Kiss of Death, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, It Could Happen to You, The Pelican Brief, Prelude to A Kiss, In the Soup, Billy Bathgate and Slaves of New York.
His work on television includes Central Park, La Fortuna, Limetown, BoJack Horseman, American Masters, Feud, Fortitude, American Dad, Robot Chicken, 30 Rock, Metropolis, Fortitude, Bull, Equal Justice, Wiseguy, The Equalizer, thirtysomething and The Street. He also played Captain Hook in ITV’s two-hour drama, Peter & Wendy, alongside Laura Fraser and Paloma Faith. Tucci received Emmy nominations for his work in Murder One and ER, and an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for Monk.
Tucci made his directorial debut on Broadway with a revival of Ken Ludwig’s Lend Me a Tenor starring Tony Shalhoub. The production received a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play.
Stanley’s theater work includes Frankie & Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Execution of Hope, The Iceman Cometh, Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Misanthrope. He has also performed in a number of off-Broadway plays at Yale Repertory Theater and SUNY Purchase, where he first studied acting.
The Tucci Cookbook, released in October 2012, appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers List. His second cookbook, The Tucci Table: Cooking with Family and Friends, was released on October 28, 2014. The family-focused cookbook includes recipes from Tucci’s traditional Italian roots as well as those of his British wife, Felicity Blunt. He just released his third cookbook in October 2021, Taste: My Life Through Food, an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen and an instant New York Times Bestseller.
Although Stanley currently resides in London, he continues to serve on the Board of Directors of The Food Bank for New York City.
