Stanley Tucci

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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

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
Fear, Anxiety, & Depression Donny
1990 The Feud Harvey Yelton
Quick Change Johnny
1991 Men of Respect Mal
Billy Bathgate Lucky Luciano
1992 In the Soup Gregoire
Beethoven Vernon
Prelude to a Kiss Taylor
The Public Eye Sal
1993 Undercover Blues Muerte
The Pelican Brief Khamel
1994 It Could Happen to You Eddie Biasi
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle Fred Hunter
Somebody to Love George
1995 Jury Duty Frank/Billy
Kiss of Death Frank Zioli
Sex & the Other Man Arthur
A Modern Affair Peter Kessler
1996 The Daytrippers Louis D'Amico
Big Night Secondo Writer/Director/Co-Producer
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best New Director
Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay
New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best New Director
Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award
Nominated – Deaiville Film Festivals Grand Special Prize Award
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best First Film
Nominated – Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated – Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Dramatic Feature
1997 Deconstructing Harry Paul Epstein
The Alarmist Heinrich Grigoris
A Life Less Ordinary Elliot Zweikel
1998 The Eighteenth Angel Todd Stanton
Montana Nicholas Roth
The Impostors Arthur Writer/Director/Producer
Winchell Walter Winchell TV
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
1999 A Midsummer Night's Dream Puck
In Too Deep Preston D'Ambrosio
2000 Joe Gould's Secret Joe Mitchell Director/Producer
2001 Sidewalks of New York Griffin Risto
America's Sweethearts Dave Kingman
The Whole Shebang Giovanni Bazinni
Conspiracy Adolf Eichmann TV
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie
Nominated – Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Television Film
2002 Big Trouble Arthur Herk
Road to Perdition Frank Nitti
Maid in Manhattan Jerry Siegel
2003 The Core Dr. Conrad Zimsky
Spin Frank Haley
2004 The Life and Death of Peter Sellers Stanley Kubrick
The Terminal Frank Dixon
Shall We Dance? Link
2005 Robots Herb Copperbottom Voice Only
2006 Lucky Number Slevin Det. Brikowski
The Devil Wears Prada Nigel
2007 Four Last Songs Larry
The Hoax Shelton Fisher
2008 Blind Date Don Writer/Director
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl Mr. Berk
Space Chimps The Senator Voice Only
Swing Vote Martin Fox
What Just Happened Scott Solomon
The Tale of Despereaux Boldo Voice Only
2009 Julie & Julia Paul Child
The Lovely Bones George Harvey Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Nominated – Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role
2010 Easy A Dill Penderghast Nominated – Comedy Film Award for Best Supporting Actor
Burlesque Sean
Margin Call Eric Dale Nominated – Gotham Award for Best Ensemble Cast
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger Dr. Abraham Erskine Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor
2012 The Hunger Games Caesar Flickerman
Gambit Zaidenweber
The Company You Keep Ray Fuller
2013 Jack the Giant Slayer Lord Roderick
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Dionysus (Mr. D)
The Fifth EstateJames Boswell
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Caesar Flickerman
2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman Voice
Muppets Most Wanted
A Little Chaos Filming
Heat Baby Filming
Transformers: Age of Extinction Joshua [18] post-production
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 Caesar Flickerman Filming
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1987 Crime Story Zack Lowman 1 episode: "The Battle of Las Vegas"
1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (1987) 1st Tenant Unknown episodes
1988 The Street Arthur Scolari Unknown episodes
1986–1988 Miami Vice Frank Mosca, Steven Demarco 3 episodes
1988 The Equalizer Assymblyman Phillip Wingate 1 episode: "The Last Campaign"
1988–1989 Wiseguy Rick Pinzolo 5 episodes
1989–1990 thirtysomething Karl Draconis 2 episodes
1990 Revealing Evidence: Stalking the Honolulu Stranger Detective Patrick McGuire Television movie
1990 Lifestories Art Conforti 1 episode: "Art Conforti"
1990–1991 Equal Justice Detective Frank Mirelli 3 episodes
1995–1996 Murder One Richard Cross 23 episodes
Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
2000 Bull Hunter Lasky 5 episodes
2004 Frasier Morrie (caller) 1 episode: "Frasier-Lite"
2006 Monk David Ruskin 1 episode: "Mr. Monk and the Actor"
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
2006 3 lbs. Dr. Douglas Hanson 6 episodes
2007–2008 ER Dr. Kevin Moretti 10 episodes
Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
2012 30 Rock Henry Warren 1 episode: "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky"
2013 American Dad! Guest voice-star Season 10 episode

References

  1. "Stanley Tucci Biography (1960–)". FilmReference.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012.  For example, Biography.com and Rovi's AllMovie.com give November 11, while Playbill, Rovi's AllMusic.com, and the book The Great Dictators by Angela Baldassare (Guernica Editions, 1999, p. 104) give January 11, 1960.
  2. Kahn, Toby (January 22, 1996). "Touch of Evil". People. Retrieved December 10, 2012. 
  3. http://www.yalerep.org/press/r_history/index2.html
  4. James, Susan Donaldson. "The Lovely Bones: Serial Killers Elude as Ordinary Neighbors" December 18, 2009. www.abcnews.com.
  5. Cohen, Patricia (February 17, 2010). "Stanley Tucci, Director". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010. 
  6. Stanley Tucci joins 'Captain America'. Heatvisionblog.com (October 31, 2012).
  7. "Stanley Tucci Biography". TVGuide.com. Retrieved December 10, 2012. 
  8. Bruni, Frank (October 2, 2012). "Hollywood Ending, With Meatballs". The New York Times. Retrieved December 10, 2012. 
  9. "Kim Kardashian ‘American Dad’: Reality Star to Play Alien on Comedy". Variety. Retrieved 2013-09-25. 
  10. Hibberd, James. "Kim Kardashian to play alien on 'American Dad' | Inside TV | EW.com". Insidetv.ew.com. Retrieved 2013-09-25. 
  11. Kathryn Louise Spath-Tucci Obituary - South Salem, New York. Tributes.com.
  12. "Stanley Tucci's Wife Dies of Cancer", OfficialWire, May 7, 2009
  13. Miss Spath Plans To Marry In Fall. The New York Times.(1983-02-27).
  14. "Stanley Tucci Interview". Long Island Press. September 18, 2010. 
  15. "Stanley Tucci Is Engaged to Emily Blunt's Sister Felicity!". Us Weekly. November 2, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2013. 
  16. "Stanley Tucci Marries Felicity Blunt". People. August 8, 2012. Retrieved August 24, 2012. 
  17. "Anne Hathaway's Dream Wedding - More Weddings". People. October 15, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2013. 
  18. Transformers 4 Casting Sheet Reveals Crosshairs, Drift, Dinobots, Human Characters - Transformers News - TFW2005

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