Like many another contemporary movie and TV favorite, Stanley Tucci is a graduate of the drama department at SUNY-Purchase. Tucci made his film bow in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, after which he specialized in playing lowlifes and scuzzbags, despite his offscreen credentials as a loyal friend and loving family man. Some of his more memorable appearances were as Rick Pinzolo in TV's Wiseguy (1987-1989), a minor-league thug named Vernon in Beethoven (1992), and a Middle-Eastern assassin in The Pelican Brief (1993). Tucci acquired a fan following of sorts for his slimy year-long role of Richard Cross on the weekly TV series Murder One (1995).
In 1996, Tucci broke loose from his established screen persona by playing an ambitious Italian-American restaurateur in Big Night, the most delightfully "gastronomic" film since Like Water for Chocolate. The art-house favorite was a sheer labor of love for Tucci, who served as its producer, co-wrote its script with his cousin Joe Tropiano, and shared directorial duties with his friend Campbell Scott. Tucci again directed two years later with The Impostors, a farcical comedy that cast him and longtime friend Oliver Platt as two stowaways on an ocean liner. Unlike Big Night, however, the film did not do well with audiences or critics. After starring in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1998) as Puck and In Too Deep (1999) as a police supervisor, Tucci again stepped behind the camera, this time to direct Joe Gould's Secret (2000). A historical drama about an eccentric man (Ian Holm) living on the streets of Greenwich Village, it received a very enthusiastic reception at the 2000 Sundance Festival, where it premiered. The early 2000s seemed to be a winning period for the versatile actor, with Tucci also taking home the Best Supporting Actor in a television movie award for his role in Conspiracy (2001). That same year he appeared in America's Sweethearts as an intense movie mogul. He continued doing solid work even when the finished films were sometimes lacking. He played in the Jennifer Lopez hit Maid in Manhattan, Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition, the American remake of Shall We Dance?, and landed his largest role in a major Hollywood production when Steven Spielberg cast him as the ambitious, officious manager of The Terminal. Tucci lent his voice to the animated film Robots in 2005, and the next year earned solid notices for his work as a fashion magazine editor loyal to the diva editor in chief Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada.
The highly-respected character actor continued to work steadily in a variety of projects, but a pair of high-profile supporting roles in 2009 earned him strong reviews and awards consideration. As the husband to Julia Child in Julie & Julia, Tucci got to work opposite Meryl Streep yet again in another box-office hit, but it was his creepy turn as a child killer in the big screen adaptation of The Lovely Bones that earned him Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globe, and Academy Award nominations.
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Gambit
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2013 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
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Jack the Giant Killer
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2013 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
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Mommy and Me
Director, Executive Producer |
2013 | NOT YET RELEASED | ||
| 2013 | NOT YET RELEASED | |||
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The Hunger Games
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2012 | |||
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Margin Call
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2011 | |||
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Burlesque
Actor |
2010 | |||
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Easy A
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2010 | |||
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Julie & Julia
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2009 | |||
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Saint John of Las Vegas
Executive Producer |
2009 | |||
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The Lovely Bones
Actor |
2009 | |||
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Blind Date
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2008 | |||
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Space Chimps
Voice |
2008 | |||
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Swing Vote
Actor |
2008 | |||
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The Tale of Despereaux
Voice |
2008 | |||
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What Just Happened
Actor |
2008 | |||
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ER: Season 14
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2007 | |||
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The Hoax
Actor |
2007 | |||
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3 Lbs [TV Series]
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2006 | |||
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Four Last Songs
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2006 | |||
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Lucky Number Slevin
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2006 | |||
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The Devil Wears Prada
Actor |
2006 | |||
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Robots
Voice |
2005 | |||
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Shall We Dance?
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2004 | |||
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Spin
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2004 | |||
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The Terminal
Actor |
2004 | |||
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The Core
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2003 | |||
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The Mudge Boy
Executive Producer |
2003 | |||
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Big Trouble
Actor |
2002 | |||
| 2002 | ||||
| 2002 | ||||
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Maid in Manhattan
Actor |
2002 | |||
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Road to Perdition
Actor |
2002 | |||
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America's Sweethearts
Actor |
2001 | |||
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Conspiracy
Actor |
2001 | |||
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Sidewalks of New York
Actor |
2001 | |||
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The Whole Shebang
Actor |
2001 | |||
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Bull [TV Series]
Actor |
2000 | |||
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Joe Gould's Secret
Actor, Director, Producer |
2000 | |||
| 2000 | ||||
| 1999 | ||||
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In Too Deep
Actor |
1999 | |||
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Montana
Actor |
1998 | |||
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The Impostors
Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1998 | |||
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Winchell
Actor |
1998 | |||
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A Life Less Ordinary
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Deconstructing Harry
Actor |
1997 | |||
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The Alarmist
Actor |
1997 | |||
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The Eighteenth Angel
Actor |
1997 | |||
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Big Night
Actor, Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter |
1996 | |||
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The Daytrippers
Actor |
1996 | |||
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A Modern Affair
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Jury Duty
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Kiss of Death
Actor |
1995 | |||
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Sex and the Other Man
Actor |
1995 | |||
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It Could Happen to You
Actor |
1994 | |||
| 1994 | ||||
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Somebody to Love
Actor |
1994 | |||
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The Pelican Brief
Actor |
1993 | |||
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Undercover Blues
Actor |
1993 | |||
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Beethoven
Actor |
1992 | |||
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In the Soup
Actor |
1992 | |||
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Prelude to a Kiss
Actor |
1992 | |||
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The Public Eye
Actor |
1992 | |||
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Billy Bathgate
Actor |
1991 | |||
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Men of Respect
Actor |
1991 | |||
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Quick Change
Actor |
1990 | |||
| 1990 | ||||
| 1989 | ||||
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Slaves of New York
Actor |
1989 | |||
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The Feud
Actor |
1989 | |||
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Monkey Shines
Actor |
1988 | |||
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Who's That Girl?
Actor |
1987 | |||
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Prizzi's Honor
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