![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Director, Actor Born: January 11, 1960 in Peekskill, NY Biography: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... Full Biography
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