Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci
Biographical Information
Full Name	Stanley Tucci, Jr.
Occupation	Actor • Writer • Producer • Director
Date of Birth	November 11, 1960 (age 63)
Origin	Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Years Active	1982–present
Series Information
Character(s)	Jack Warner
Season(s)	Bette and Joan
Show Status	Starring

“	To play somebody as, kind of despicable as Jack Warner, is a great pleasure.	”
—Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, producer, and film director. 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, Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2. Tucci was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009), and he won two Emmy Awards for his performances in Winchell and Monk.

He is starring in the first season of Feud as Jack Warner.

Early Life

Tucci was born in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in nearby Katonah. He is the son of Joan Tropiano, a secretary and writer, and Stanley Tucci, Sr., an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York. Stanley is the oldest of three children, his sister being fellow actress Christine Tucci, and screenwriter Joseph Tropiano is a cousin. Stanley's parents, both of Italian descent, had roots in Calabria, Italy, and during the early 1970s, the family spent a year living in Florence, Italy. Stanley attended John Jay High School in Cross River, New York, and Purchase State College in Purchase, New York, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982.

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, The Queen and the Rebels, premiering September 30, 1982. Tucci's official film debut was in Prizzi's Honor (1985), and he later performed at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1991 in a Molière play.

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 Campbell 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 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. In addition, he was nominated for a 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 audio-book of Tucci reading Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions. In July 2006, Tucci made an appearance on the USA TV series Monk, in a performance that earned him a 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series. Shortly after, Tucci starred in the TV medical drama 3 lbs., which debuted on CBS on November 14, 2006, but was cancelled that November 30th due to low ratings. In 2007, Tucci had a recurring role in the medical drama, ER. He also provided the voice over in the AT&T "Raising the Bar" marketing campaign.

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. The following year, Tucci directed a revival of the Ken Ludwig play Lend Me a Tenor on Broadway, starring Tony Shalhoub. In 2011, Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in Captain America: The First Avenger. Most notably, 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, Catching Fire, Mockingjay – Part 1 and Mockingjay – Part 2.

Tucci was also the co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York. It has since been sold and the menu changed to more traditional Italian-American cuisine. Tucci's cookbook, The Tucci Cookbook, was released in Autumn 2012. 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). In January 2015, Tucci was cast as one of the leading roles in Screen Gems horror-thriller film Patient Zero, along with Matt Smith and Natalie Dormer. Currently, he is starring in the FX drama anthology series, Feud, as former Warner Bros. President, Jack L. Warner.

Personal Life

Tucci's first wife, Kathryn "Kate" Tucci (b. 1962), died of breast cancer in 2009. 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. She and Tucci married in 1995 and had three children together: twins Nicolo Robert and Isabel Concetta, who were born in Manhattan on January 21, 2000, and daughter Camilla Tucci, born in 2002. They also raised Kate's two children from her previous marriage. The couple legally separated in February 2003, during which Tucci had a brief relationship with Edie Falco from April 2003 until March 2004. However, in 2005, Tucci and Kate reconciled after Kate discovered she had breast cancer, and the pair remained together until her death in 2009. Tucci stated afterwards that he was not in the room with Kate when she passed, as he knew it would be so devastating that he wouldn’t be able to take care of the kids after.

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 at her wedding to John Krasinski, several years after they worked together on Prada. Tucci and Blunt married in a civil ceremony in summer 2012, followed by a larger observance at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29, 2012. 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. On January 25, 2015, Blunt gave birth to the couple's son, Matteo Oliver. The family currently resides in the leafy London suburb of Barnes (UK).

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, were 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.

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 & 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 & producer
1999	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Puck
1999	In Too Deep	Preston D'Ambrosio
2000	Joe Gould's Secret	Joe Mitchell	Also director & producer
2001	Sidewalks of New York	Griffin Risto
2001	America's Sweethearts	Dave Kingman
2001	The Whole Shebang	Giovanni Bazinni
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
2006	The Hoax	Shelton Fisher
2007	Four Last Songs	Larry
2007	Blind Date	Don	Also writer & 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	Dr. 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	Beauty and the Beast	Maestro Cadenza
2017	Patient Zero		Filming
2017	Transformers: The Last Knight	Joshua Joyce	Post-Production
2017	Final Portrait		Post-Production; Writer and director

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 film
2000	Bull	Hunter Lasky	5 episodes
2001	Conspiracy	Adolf Eichmann	Television film
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	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 film
2017	FEUD: Bette and Joan	Jack Warner

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Trivia

• He is a close friend of actress Meryl Streep.
• He has worked with 9 directors who have won a Best Director Oscar: John Huston, Robert Benton, Woody Allen, Danny Boyle, Sam Mendes, Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Peter Jackson, and Robert Redford.
• After his freshman year in college, Tucci was a maintenance man at a county park in Westchester, New York, having to clean the toilets, which didn’t have running water.
• He almost got hit by a bus after first moving to London, England.

External Links

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