Stanley Tucci is an American actor, director, screenwriter and producer. Three-time winner of the Emmy Award and nominee for an Oscar. Best known for the films The Devil Wears Prada, Julia and Julia: Cooking for Prescription Happiness, Lovely Bones, and The Hunger Games franchise. During his career, he participated in more than one hundred and twenty projects.
Childhood and youth
Stanley Tucci was born on November 11, 1960 in the city of Peekskill, New York. Both actor parents have Italian roots. Stanley lived in Italian Florence for about a year with his family.
In high school, Tucci was actively involved in sports, was a member of the football and baseball teams, but was primarily fond of the theater. In school, he met Campbell Scott, the son of an Oscar-winning actor, George C. Scott. Subsequently, they will together shoot the comedy "Big Night."
After graduating from high school, Stanley Tucci entered one of the public colleges of the University of New York, where he studied theater skills with Wing Rhames, the future star of the films Pulp Fiction and Mission Impossible. It was Tucci who advised the actor to change the name Irving to a shorter and more sonorous - Wing.
Carier start
The first work for Tucci was a Broadway production, in which Campbell Scott's mother took part. She helped her son and his friend get a job in the theater. Later, Stanley began working on television, appearing in small roles in the popular projects "Miami Police: Department of Morals" and "Equalizer."
The first role of Stanley Tucci on the big screen was the episodic appearance in the crime comedy "The Prizzi Family Honor". In subsequent years, he appeared in films such as Billy Bathgate, Beethoven, and In the Soup. He also starred in the first season of the series "One Murder."
Most Notable Roles
In 1996, Stanley Tucci directed the film "Big Night" according to his own script, and Campbell Scott was the second director. Tucci played a major role in the film, along with Tony Shalub, Scott appeared in a small but vibrant role as a car salesman. The comedy received excellent reviews from critics and today is included in many lists of the best films of all time.
In the next few years, Stanley Tucci appeared in vivid supporting roles in Woody Allen's comedy "Tearing down Harry" and Danny Boyle's fantasy melodrama "Life is Worse than Usual." He continued to work actively, starring in several films every year and sometimes appearing in the series as a guest star.
In 2002, Tucci appeared in the role of the famous mafia Frank Nitti in the crime drama "Cursed Path". Two years later, he played one of the central roles in the comedy Steven Spielberg "Terminal".
In many ways, “The Devil Wears Prada” became a breakthrough film for Stanley Tucci, where he fully demonstrated his talent as a character actor. In 2009, he played the role of the husband of the character Meryl Streep in the tragicomedy "Julia and Julia: Cooking Prescription Happiness", also this year he appeared as the main villain in Peter Jackson's "Cute Bones". For this work, he was awarded the first Oscar nomination.
In subsequent years, Stanley appeared in several blockbusters, including The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters, Jack the Giant Vanquisher, and the fourth film in the Transformers series. A few years later it was announced that he would return in the fifth part of the franchise, but for a long time the fans could not understand who the actor would play. As a result, according to a photo of Stanley Tucci from the set, it became clear that he reincarnated as Merlin.
The actor continues to act actively to this day, he recently appeared in the new project of the Disney studio Beauty and the Beast. He also played the leading roles in the first seasons of the series Fortitude and Feud.
Personal life
In 1995, Stanley Tucci married Katherine, a social worker and ex-wife of Campbell's brother Scott. Three children were born in the marriage, in addition, the couple raised two children from their previous brother Katherine. In 2009, Stanley's wife passed away from breast cancer.
In 2012, after a year of engagement, the actor married Felicity Blunt, the elder sister of the famous Hollywood actress Emily Blunt. The couple has two children, at the moment the family lives in London.
Stanley Tucci is fond of cooking, he was a co-owner of the restaurant and even published a cookbook of his own authorship. He is actively involved in charity work and took part in refugee assistance campaigns.