Stanley Tucci Biography (2)
Tucci has remained plenty active since 2004, taking on roles in five different films. The most recent, Fox Animation's feature, Robots, was released in March 2005. In it, Tucci offered his voice for the Herb Copperbottom character. The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, in which he played the role of renowned director Stanley Kubrick, premiered on HBO in December of 2004. The Stephen Hopkins drama starred Stephen Gry, John Lithgow and Miriam Margolys and tied for the most Emmy nominations with 16 bids. Tucci starred opposite Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez in the romantic comedy Shall We Dance, which opened in October 2004 and was directed by Peter Chelsom. Also released in October was the James Redford film Spin, with Dana Delany and Ruben Blades. The story is based on an orphaned boy raised by a Hispanic family in the 1950's. Tucci also worked alongside Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, released in June 2004. The story is about an Eastern European immigrant (Hanks) who becomes a resident of a New York airport terminal when a war breaks out and erases his country from the map, voiding his passport.
In 2002 Tucci received critical acclaim for his work in Fox and DreamWorks' Road to Perdition, co-starring Tom Hanks, Jude Law and Paul Newman. The Sam Mendes directed film, about a hit man who takes things personally after his wife and son are murdered, was released in theaters in July 2002. Stanley can also be seen in the ever-popular Disney comedy Big Trouble, co-starring Tim Allen, Rene Russo, Omar Epps, Janeane Garofalo and Jason Lee, among others. The Barry Sonnenfeld-directed film, about the lives of several Miami denizens intersecting with hilarious and dangerous results, opened in April 2002.
Tucci also graced screens in Paramount Classics' Sidewalks of New York, written and directed by Edward Burns and starring Heather Graham and Brittany Murphy and Sony's America's Sweethearts, opposite Julia Roberts, John Cusack, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Billy Crystal. He also appeared alongside Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth in the highly acclaimed HBO drama, Conspiracy, a film for which Tucci earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Made-for-TV movie or Miniseries.
Tucci's multiple talents have led to a very diverse career. Not only an accomplished and gifted actor, he is a writer, director and producer. His most recent directorial effort was USA Films' Joe Gould's Secret, which starred Ian Holm as bohemian writer 'Joe Gould' and Tucci as 'Joseph Mitchell,' the famed writer for The New Yorker. The film, set in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1940s, tells the story of the strange meeting and long lasting friendship between Gould and Mitchell, as well as the stories Mitchell wrote about Gould and his life.
Big Night, Tucci's first effort as co-director, co-screenwriter and actor on the same film, earned him numerous accolades, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, a recognition of Excellence by the National Board of Review, an Independent Spirit Award, The Critics Prize at the 1996 Deauville Film Festival and honors from the New York Film Critics and the Society of Film Critics.
Tucci's second project, The Imposters, a film that he wrote, directed, co-produced and in which he starred, was an Official Selection at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival and was purchased later that year by Fox Searchlight Pictures. The 1930s farce stars Tucci and Oliver Platt as a pair of out-of-work actors who find themselves aboard a cruise ship passengered by Steve Buscemi, Billy Connolly, Alfred Molina, Lili Taylor and Hope Davis.
Tucci's previous film credits include Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Alarmist, A Life Less Ordinary, The Daytrippers, Kiss of Death, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, It Could Happen to You, The Pelican Brief, Prelude to a Kiss, Billy Bathgate, In the Soup, and Slaves of New York.
In 2002, Tucci won a Golden Globe Award for his brilliant portrayal of Lt. Colonel Adolf Eichmann in the television film entitled, Conspiracy. This was the dramatic recreation of the Wannsee Conference where the Nazi Final Solution phase of the Holocaust was devised. He also received a Golden Globe, as well as an Emmy Award for his portrayal of Walter Winchell, a founder of American gossip, in the HBO original film, Winchell. His performance as the fast-talking tattler, whose exposure of secrets and scandals turned political, left audiences and critics alike singing his praises. Winchell, directed by Paul Mazursky, provided Tucci with one of the juiciest roles of his diverse career.
Tucci's work on television includes his appearance as a re-occurring guest star on TNT's Bull. He played 'Hunter Lasky,' a charming, conniving, power-player, one of Wall Street's best negotiation 'sharks.' His other television credits include appearances on Equal Justice, Wiseguy, The Equalizer, Thirtysomething, and The Street. Tucci also starred as 'Richard Cross' in the Steven Bochco drama Murder One, a performance for which he earned an Emmy Nomination.
Tucci, no stranger to the theater, has appeared in many plays including Execution of Hope, The Iceman Cometh, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and The Misanthrope. He also performed in a number of off-Broadway plays, at Yale Repertory Theater and SUNY Purchase, where he first studied acting.
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