Stanley Tucci Biography (4)

Stanley Tucci is currently dazzling Broadway audiences in a revival of Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune opposite Edie Falco. He recently co-starred in Sam Mendes' The Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, the comedy Big Trouble and Edward Burns' Sidewalks of New York. Last year he appeared in Revolution Studios' America's Sweethearts opposite Julia Roberts and John Cusack, released by Columbia Pictures.

Tucci earned both an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Made-for-TV-Movie or Miniseries in the highly acclaimed HBO drama, Conspiracy, in which he appeared alongside Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth. He had previously won a Best Actor Emmy and Golden Globe for his portrayal of Walter Winchell in the HBO original film Winchell.

Not only is Tucci an accomplished and gifted actor, he is a writer, director, and producer as well. His most recent directorial effort was Joe Gould's Secret starring Ian Holm as bohemian writer Joe Gould, and Tucci as Joseph Mitchell, the famed writer for The New Yorker. Big Night, Tucci's first effort as co-director, co-screenwriter and actor, 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, as well as honors from the New York Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics.

Tucci's second project, The Imposters, which he wrote, directed, co-produced and in which he starred, was an Official Selection at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Previous film credits include Woody Allen's Deconstructing Harry, William Shakespeare's A Midsummer's 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.

Tucci's work on television includes a recurring guest starring role on TNT's Bull, as well as 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 that earned him an Emmy nomination.

On Broadway, Tucci has appeared in numerous plays, including Execution of Hope, The Iceman Cometh, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and The Misanthrope. He has also performed in a number of off-Broadway plays, at Yale Repertory Theater and at SUNY Purchase, where he first studied acting.

Tucci recently finished work on The Core opposite Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank and Delroy Lindo.

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