1. Stanley Tucci made his film debut in John Huston's Prizzi's Honor, before taking supporting roles in films such as Deconstructing Harry, Road to Perdition, and The Terminal.
64 Facts About Stanley Tucci
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Stanley Tucci was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing a sinister neighbor in The Lovely Bones.
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Stanley Tucci made his directorial debut with the comedy Big Night, which he co-wrote and starred in.
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Stanley Tucci played Stanley Kubrick in the HBO film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.
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Since 2020, Stanley Tucci has voiced Bitsy Brandenham in the Apple TV+ animated series Central Park.
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From 2021 to 2022, he hosted the CNN food and travel documentary series Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy for which he won two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series.
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Stanley Tucci was born on November 11,1960, in Peekskill, New York, and grew up in nearby Katonah, New York.
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Stanley Tucci is the oldest of three children, including his sister, actress Christine Stanley Tucci.
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Stanley Tucci attended John Jay High School, in Lewisboro, New York where he played on the soccer and baseball teams, although his main interest lay in the school's drama club, where he and fellow actor and high school friend, Campbell Scott, son of actors George C Scott and Colleen Dewhurst, gave well-received performances at many of John Jay's drama club productions.
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Stanley Tucci then attended State University of New York at Purchase, where he majored in acting and graduated in 1982.
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In 1982, Stanley Tucci earned his Actors' Equity card when actress Colleen Dewhurst, the mother of Stanley 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 which premiered on September 30,1982.
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Around this time, Stanley Tucci worked as a model, with his most notable work being a television commercial for Levi's 501 jeans.
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In 1985, Stanley Tucci made his film debut as a Soldier in John Huston's black comedy crime film Prizzi's Honor starring Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner.
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In 1992, Stanley Tucci acted in the family comedy Beethoven and the romantic fantasy Prelude to a Kiss.
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Stanley Tucci continued to take roles in films such as the legal thriller The Pelican Brief starring Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts, and the romantic comedy It Could Happen to You with Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda.
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From 1995 to 1996, Stanley Tucci starred in the television series Murder One as the mysterious Richard Cross.
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Stanley Tucci received his first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for his performance in the series, specifically for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
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In 1996, Stanley Tucci co-wrote, co-directed the comedy-drama film Big Night.
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Stanley Tucci starred alongside Tony Shalhoub and co-wrote the screenplay with his cousin Joseph Tropiano and directed the film with friend Campbell Scott.
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That same year Stanley Tucci acted in the independent drama The Daytrippers which was written and directed by Greg Mottola.
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In 1998, Stanley Tucci wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in the comedy film The Impostors.
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Shortly thereafter, Stanley Tucci starred in the HBO biographical television film Winchell in which Stanley Tucci portrayed columnist Walter Winchell.
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Stanley Tucci received a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination for his performance in the film.
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In 2000, Stanley Tucci directed, produced and starred in the drama film Joe Gould's Secret, based on a 1964 biographical essay about Gould by The New Yorker reporter Joseph Mitchell.
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In 2001, Stanley Tucci starred in the HBO television war film Conspiracy as Adolf Eichmann.
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In 2002, Stanley Tucci returned to the stage by starring in the revival of Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.
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Stanley Tucci received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance in the play.
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Stanley Tucci reunited with Hanks in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal.
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That same year Stanley Tucci appeared in Shall We Dance.
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Stanley Tucci was a guest caller in an episode of Frasier.
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Also that year, Caedmon Audio released an audiobook of Stanley Tucci reading Kurt Vonnegut's 1973 novel Breakfast of Champions.
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In 2005, Stanley Tucci had his first voice role in the animated film Robots, which features other notable actors' voices such as Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, and Robin Williams.
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In 2006, Stanley Tucci had a major role in the comedy film The Devil Wears Prada, opposite Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt.
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Stanley Tucci portrays Nigel Kipling, a loyal confidant of Miranda Priestly.
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Scott of The New York Times declaring, "Mr Stanley Tucci, has never been better".
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Also in 2006, Stanley Tucci made an appearance on the television series Monk, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.
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Stanley Tucci returned to broadcast television by starring in the drama series 3 lbs, which premiered on November 14,2006.
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In 2009, Stanley Tucci portrayed George Harvey, a serial killer of young girls, in The Lovely Bones starring Saoirse Ronan.
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Furthermore, Stanley Tucci had a supporting role in the teen coming-of-age romantic comedy film Easy A starring Emma Stone.
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That same year Stanley Tucci starred alongside Cher and Christina Aguilera in Burlesque.
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Stanley Tucci was a co-owner of the Finch Tavern restaurant in Croton Falls, New York.
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Stanley Tucci played Henry Warren Chang in the 30 Rock episode "Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky" in 2012.
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In 2013, Stanley Tucci played the role of the Ancient Greek God Dionysus in Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.
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Stanley Tucci portrayed Philippe I, Duke of Orleans in Alan Rickman's biographical costume romance drama A Little Chaos starring Kate Winslet.
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Also in 2015, Stanley Tucci starred in the British series Fortitude as DCI Eugene Morton.
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In 2017, Stanley Tucci directed and wrote the drama film Final Portrait.
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Stanley Tucci returned to the Transformers film series by portraying Merlin in Transformers: The Last Knight.
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Also in 2017, Stanley Tucci starred in the miniseries Feud as Warner Bros.
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Feud received critical acclaim and Stanley Tucci received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.
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In 2018, Stanley Tucci starred the independent films Patient Zero, A Private War and Night Hunter.
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In 2019, Stanley Tucci starred in the drama series Limetown, based on the podcast of the same name.
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In 2020, Stanley Tucci began voicing the character Bitsy Brandenham in the animated series Central Park.
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In 2020, Stanley Tucci starred in the British drama film Supernova opposite Colin Firth.
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Firth and Stanley Tucci are such reliable stalwarts that we tend not to regard their presence too closely in films these days: Almost invariably, they fulfill our expectations of their refined gravitas.
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In 2021, Tucci hosted the culinary travel series, Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy, a six-part original CNN series following the actor on a food tour of Italy.
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Stanley Tucci acted in the title role in the BBC One thriller series Inside Man.
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In 2023, Stanley Tucci acted in the Amazon Prime Video series Citadel starring Priyanka Chopra and Richard Madden.
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In 2024, Stanley Tucci played a major role in the Edward Berger film Conclave alongside Ralph Fiennes, which premiered at the 51st Telluride Film Festival.
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Stanley Tucci married Kathryn Spath was born on 1962, died 2009 and in 1995.
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Stanley Tucci was a social worker, former wife of actor and stage manager Alexander R Scott, and former sister-in-law of Tucci's high school friend Campbell Scott.
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Stanley Tucci had an affair in 2002 with actress Edie Falco, with whom he was appearing on Broadway in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, but the affair ended, and he returned to his wife and children.
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On May 21,2021, Stanley Tucci received a Doctorate Honoris Causa in Humane Letters from the American University of Rome, in Rome, Italy, for his lifelong contribution to the arts and humanities.
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In September 2021, Stanley Tucci revealed that he had been diagnosed with oropharyngeal cancer three years earlier.
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Stanley Tucci had received treatment after a tumor was found at the base of his tongue, and said it was unlikely that the tumor would return.