Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci
Tucci at the 18th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival 2010.
Born	January 11 or November 11, 1960; sources differ Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Alma mater	State University of New York at Purchase (B.A., 1982)
Occupation	Actor, writer, producer, director
Years active	1985–present
Spouse(s)	Kathryn Spath-Tucci (1995–2009; her death) Felicity Blunt (2012–present)
Children	3
Relatives	Christine Tucci (sister) Emily Blunt (sister-in-law) John Krasinski (brother-in-law)

Stanley Tucci (born January 11 or November 11, 1960; sources differ)^[1] is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009), and won an Emmy Award for his performance in Winchell. He also was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for The One And Only Shrek.

Career

Tucci earned his Actors' Equity card in the year that 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,^[2] The Queen and the Rebels, premiering September 30, 1982. His film debut was in Prizzi's Honor (1985). He performed at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1991 in a Molière play.^[3] 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 Adolph 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.

Tucci at the James Beard Awards in May 2009.

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.^{[citation needed]} In 2007, he had a recurring role in medical drama ER.

In 2009, Tucci portrayed George Harvey, a pedophile and 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.^[4] The following year, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub.^[5] Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger.^[6] Through 2013 he has continued to appear in such films as The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia, both opposite Meryl Streep, The Hunger Games and its sequel, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.

Tucci was co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York.^[7] 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).^[9][10]

Personal life

Stanley Tucci's first wife was Kathryn Tucci (1962–2009), also known as Kate Tucci, who died of breast cancer.^[11][12] She was a social worker and the former wife of actor and stage manager Alexander R. Scott, the elder son of actors Colleen Dewhurst and George C. Scott.^[13] She and Tucci married in 1995 and had three children: twins Isabel Concetta and Nicolo Robert (born in 2000) and Camilla (born in 2002). The couple also raised Spath-Tucci's two children from her previous marriage.^[14]

In 2011, Tucci became engaged to Felicity Blunt, an English literary agent and the elder sister of Tucci's The Devil Wears Prada co-star Emily Blunt, who introduced the couple several years after they worked together on Prada.^[15] Tucci and Blunt married in a civil service in summer 2012,^[16] followed by a larger ceremony at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29, 2012.^[17]

Filmography

References

External links

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• Stanley Tucci at the Internet Movie Database
• Stanley Tucci at the Internet Broadway Database