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Stanley Tucci
Tucci at the 2017 Berlin Film Festival
Born (1960-11-11) November 11, 1960 (age 64)
Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Alma materSUNY Purchase
Occupation(s)Actor, writer, producer, director
Years active1982–present
Spouse(s)
Kathryn Spath-Tucci
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(m. 1995; died 2009)​

Felicity Blunt
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(m. 2012)​
Children5
RelativesChristine Tucci (sister)
Emily Blunt (sister-in-law)

Stanley Tucci (/ˈtuːtʃi/; born November 11, 1960) is an American character actor, writer, producer, and film director.[1][2]

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!.[3]

Early life

Tucci was born in Peekskill, New York,[4] and grew up in nearby Katonah,[5] the son of Joan (née Tropiano), a secretary and writer, and Stanley Tucci, Sr.,[5][6] an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York.[7] His parents, both of Italian descent, had roots in Calabria.[8] He is the oldest of three children;[5] his sister is actress Christine Tucci.[9] Screenwriter Joseph Tropiano is a cousin.[10] During the early 1970s, the family spent a year living in Florence, Italy.[8]

He attended John Jay High School,[5] where he played on the John Jay soccer team and baseball teams; though 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. He then attended SUNY Purchase, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982.[5] Among his classmates at SUNY Purchase was fellow acting student, Ving Rhames. It was Tucci who gave Rhames, born Irving, the "Ving" the nickname by which he is now known.[11]

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,[5] 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.[12] 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.

Tucci at the James Beard Awards in May 2009

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 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 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.[13] In 2007, he had a recurring role in medical drama ER.[14]

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.[15] The following year, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub.[16] Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger.[17] 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 with Transformers: Age of Extinction castmates Melanie Specht and Greg Matthew Anderson in August 2014

Tucci was co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York.[18] His cookbook, The Tucci Cookbook, was released in Autumn 2012.[8] 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).[19][20] In January 2015, Tucci was cast as one of the leading roles in Screen Gems horror-thriller film Patient Zero,[21] along with Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer.[22]

Tucci played the role of the composer Maestro Cadenza in the live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast.

Personal life

Tucci's first wife, Kathryn "Kate" Tucci (b. 1962), died of breast cancer in 2009.[23][24] 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.[25] She and Tucci married in 1995 and had three children.[26] The couple also raised Kate's two children from her previous marriage.[5][26]

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.[27] Tucci and Blunt married in a civil ceremony in summer 2012,[28] followed by a larger observance at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29, 2012.[29]

After moving their home from New York to London, on October 19, 2014, Tucci and Blunt announced that they were expecting their first child together.[30] On January 25, 2015, Blunt gave birth to the couple's son, Matteo Oliver.[31] On March 22, 2018, the couple revealed that they were expecting their second child together.[32]

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.[33][34]

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 Sperm Bank Technician
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 Jack
2017 Submission Ted Swenson
2018 Patient Zero Post-production
2018 Show Dogs Philippe (voice) Post-production
2018 Nomis Commissioner Harper Post-production
TBA A Private War Tony Shaw

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 Party Host (voice) 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

Published works

  • Tucci, Stanley (October 9, 2012). The Tucci Cookbook. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-1451661255.[35]
  • Tucci, Stanley; Blunt, Felicity (2014). The Tucci Table: Cooking With Family and Friends. Gallery Books. ISBN 978-1476738567.

References

  1. ^ "The 10 Best Character Actors In Movies Right Now3. Stanley Tucci". Complex. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  2. ^ "Terry talks with character actor STANLEY TUCCI". Npr.org. Retrieved October 22, 2017.
  3. ^ "Stanley Tucci". Grammy.com. May 14, 2017. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  4. ^ "Peekskill > Prominent Peekskill People". Peekskill Arts Council. 2007. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Kahn, Toby (January 22, 1996). "Touch of Evil". People. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Staudter, Thomas (April 2, 2000). "Film Screening to Benefit Peekskill Theater". The New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  7. ^ Tucci, Joan Tropiano, and Gianni Scappin with Mimi Shanley Taft, Cucina & Famiglia: Two Italian Families Share Their Stories, Recipes, and Traditions, New York: William Morrow, 1999, ISBN 0-688-15902-8
  8. ^ a b c Bruni, Frank (October 2, 2012). "Hollywood Ending, With Meatballs". The New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  9. ^ "Stanley Tucci Biography (1960–)". FilmReference.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  10. ^ "A 'Big Night' for Food Fans". The Washington Post. September 25, 1996. Retrieved August 8, 2012.
  11. ^ "Ving Rhames". Biography.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  12. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on February 7, 2013. Retrieved 2013-03-07. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  13. ^ Elliott, Stuart (2007). "AT&T Prepares to 'De-Brand' the Cingular Wireless Name". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 11, 2018.
  14. ^ "Stanley Tucci". TVGuide.com. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  15. ^ James, Susan Donaldson. "The Lovely Bones: Serial Killers Elude as Ordinary Neighbors" December 18, 2009. http:// www.abcnews.com.
  16. ^ Cohen, Patricia (February 17, 2010). "Stanley Tucci, Director". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  17. ^ Stanley Tucci joins 'Captain America'. Heatvisionblog.com (October 31, 2012).
  18. ^ "Stanley Tucci Biography". TVGuide.com. Retrieved December 10, 2012.
  19. ^ "Kim Kardashian 'American Dad': Reality Star to Play Alien on Comedy". Variety. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  20. ^ Hibberd, James. "Kim Kardashian to play alien on 'American Dad' | Inside TV | EW.com". Insidetv.ew.com. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  21. ^ Miska, Brad. "Stanley Tucci Becomes 'Patient Zero'". DC. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  22. ^ Fleming Jr., Mike. "Stanley Tucci Nabs Villain Role In 'Patient Zero'". Deadline. Retrieved January 23, 2015.
  23. ^ "Kathryn Louise Spath-Tucci Obituary". Tributes.com. Archived from the original on June 19, 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  24. ^ "Stanley Tucci's Wife Dies of Cancer", OfficialWire, May 7, 2009
  25. ^ "Miss Spath Plans To Marry In Fall". The New York Times. February 27, 1983.
  26. ^ a b "Stanley Tucci Interview". Long Island Press. September 18, 2010. Archived from the original on April 10, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  27. ^ "Stanley Tucci Is Engaged to Emily Blunt's Sister Felicity!". Us Weekly. November 2, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  28. ^ "Stanley Tucci Marries Felicity Blunt". People. August 8, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012.
  29. ^ "Anne Hathaway's Dream Wedding - More Weddings". People. October 15, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2013.
  30. ^ Webber, Stephanie (October 19, 2014). "Stanley Tucci, Felicity Blunt Expecting First Child: 'It's Incredible". Us Weekly. Retrieved November 22, 2014.
  31. ^ "Stanley Tucci and wife Felicity Blunt welcome baby son Matteo Oliver". Daily Mail. January 29, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
  32. ^ Peckham, Tina Smithers (March 23, 2018). "Stanley Tucci's Wife Felicity Blunt Is Pregnant With Baby No. 2". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  33. ^ "2016 Stories - #WithRefugees". Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  34. ^ "What They Took With Them - #WithRefugees". September 7, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
  35. ^ Bruni, Frank (October 2, 2012). "Hollywood Ending, With Meatballs". The New York Times.
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