Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci married his first wife Kathryn “Kate” in 1995 and had three children with her, twins Nicolo Robert and Isabel Concetta (Born January 21, 2000) and Camilla (2002). A social worker, she also had two children from her previous marriage to actor and stage manager Alexander R. Scott. Kate passed away from breast cancer on April 27, 2009.

Actress Emily Blunt had introduced her elder sister, British literary agent Felicity Blunt, to Tucci a few years after they worked together in ‘The Devil Wears Prada’. They initially married in a civil ceremony in the summer of 2012 and later in a traditional wedding at Middle Temple Hall in London on September 29. Blunt gave birth to their son, Matteo Oliver, on January 25, 2015. The family resides in the leafy London suburb of Barnes, London, UK.

Tucci joined Neil Gaiman, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and others in a UNHCR video to pledge their support and help raise awareness for the global refugee crisis.

Born on November 11, 1960, in Peekskill, New York, Stanley Tucci grew up in Katonah, one of the three hamlets within the town of Bedford, Westchester County, New York. He is the oldest child and only son of Joan (née Tropiano) and Stanley Tucci Sr. He has two sisters, actress Christine Tucci and artist Gina Tucci.

His father was an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York while his mother was a secretary and a writer. Both of his parents were of Italian ancestry and the family spent a year in the 1970s in Florence, Italy.

After graduating from John Jay High School in Cross River, he enrolled at the State University of New York at Purchase. He graduated in 1982 with a degree in acting.

After receiving his Actor’s Equity card for the play ‘The Queen and the Rebels’ (premiered September 30, 1982), in which Stanley Tucci starred alongside his childhood friend actor Campbell Scott and his mother Colleen Dewhurst, he performed in a Molière play at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1991.

Following the release of his debut film ‘Prizzi's Honor’, Tucci appeared in several films, including ‘’Who’s That Girl’ (1987), ‘Slaves of New York’ (1989), ‘Men of Respect’ (1990), ‘Beethoven’ (1992), ‘The Pelican Brief’ (1993), ‘It Could Happen to You’ (1994), and ‘Sex & the Other Man’ (1995).

His first television appearance was in an episode of NBC’s crime-drama ‘Crime Story’ in 1987. He played recurring roles in ‘Miami Vice’ (1986, 1987-88), ‘Wiseguy’ (1988-89), ‘thirtysomething’ (1989-90), and ‘Equal Justice’ (1991). In the first season of the legal drama ‘Murder One’ (1995-96), Tucci portrayed Richard Cross, a charming but morally ambiguous philanthropist.

He acted, wrote, directed, and produced the comedy-drama film ‘Big Night’ (1996). This was one of his many collaborations with Tony Shalhoub, in whose show ‘Monk’, he would guest-star a decade later and win an Emmy.

He was cast as Puck in Michael Hoffman’s cinematic adaptation of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ (1999) and as German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann in the 2001 BBC/HBO war film ‘Conspiracy’.

Stanley Tucci is best known for his work in the TV film ‘Winchell.’ Directed by Paul Mazursky, the film is based on the biography ‘Walter Winchell: His Life and Times’ by Herman Klurfel and depicts the early days of the tabloid gossip columnist and radio broadcaster’s career as he goes toe-to-toe with a propagandist against the backdrop of political and social turmoil in the US in the years leading up to the World War II.

Tucci received universal critical acclaim for his performance, with Variety’s Ray Richmond writing that “Tucci is simply brilliant in conveying Winchell’s public blend of charisma and sanctimony”.