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Stanley Tucci
Biography Filmography Links Contact Galleries Birthdate: 11 January 1960 Like many another contemporary movie
and TV favorite, Stanley Tucci is a graduate of the drama department at
SUNY-Purchase. Tucci made his film bow in 1985's Prizzi's Honor, after
which he specialized in playing lowlifes and scuzzbags, despite his offscreen
credentials as a loyal friend and loving family man. Some of his more
memorable appearances were as Rick Pinzolo in TV's Wiseguy (1987-1989),
a minor-league thug named Vernon in Beethoven (1992), and a Middle-Eastern
assassin in The Pelican Brief (1993). Tucci acquired a fan following of
sorts for his slimy year-long role of Richard Cross on the weekly TV series
Murder One (1995). In 1996, Tucci broke loose from his established
screen persona by playing an ambitious Italian-American restaurateur in
Big Night, the most delightfully "gastronomic" film since Like
Water for Chocolate. The art-house favorite was a sheer labor of love
for Tucci, who served as its producer, co-wrote its script with his cousin
Joe Tropiano, and shared directorial duties with his friend Campbell Scott.
Tucci again directed two years later with The Impostors, a farcical comedy
that cast him and longtime friend Oliver Platt as two stowaways on an
ocean liner. Unlike Big Night, however, the film did not do well with
audiences or critics. After starring in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1998)
as Puck and In Too Deep (1999) as a police supervisor, Tucci again stepped
behind the camera, this time to direct Joe Gould's Secret (2000). A historical
drama about an eccentric man (Ian Holm) living on the streets of Greenwich
Village, it received a very enthusiastic reception at the 2000 Sundance
Festival, where it premiered. The early 2000s seemed to be a winning period
for the versatile actor, with Tucci also taking home the Best Supporting
Actor in a television movie award for his role in Conspiracy (2001). ~
Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Core, The (2003) .... Dr. Conrad Zimsky
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