Stanley Tucci Bio, Age, Family, Height, Wife, First Wife, Children, Searching for Italy, Movies, Net worth

Stanley Tucci Biography

A native of Peekskill, New York, Stanley Tucci is an American actor, screenwriter,  author,  television producer, film producer, and former model. He is known for being the host of CNN’s reality series, Searching for Italy, a travel and cooking show. Tucci is also known for the production of  Park Bench with Steve Buscemi, a web series.

Stanley Tucci Age and Birthday

Born on November 11, 1960, Tucci is 61 years old as of  March 2022. He was born in Peekskill, New York. Tucci celebrates his birthday on the 11th of November each year.

Stanley Tucci Family | Parents

Tucci was born in Peekskill, New York to his parents; to Joan his mother, and Stanley Tucci, Sr., his father.  His family lived in Florence, Italy for a year in the 1970s when Tucci was young.  Tucci’s father was an art teacher at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York while his mother Joan was a secretary and writer. His parents are of Italian descent, with roots in Calabria. Moreover, Tucci has two siblings among them a sister named Christine Tucci who is an actress.

Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci

Stanley Tucci Height

Tucci stands at a height measurement of 5 feet 8 inches tall, an equivalent of 1.721 meters. He maintains a good weight relative to his height.

Stanley Tucci Wife

Tucci is married to his wife Felicity Blunt, who is a British literary agent and older sister to actress Emily Blunt. Stanley and Felicity first met at the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, spending most of the night there talking to then Tucci’s wife Kate Spath. The pair tied the knot in September 2012. Moreover, Tucci and his wife Felicity share two children; a son Matteo, born in January 2015, and a daughter Emilia, born in April 2018.

Besides, people are interested to know Tucci’s and his Wife’s age difference. There is a 20-year age difference between Stanley Tucci and his wife Felicity Blunt. Tucci was born on November 11, 1960, while his wife Felicity was born on January 8, 1981.

Stanley Tucci First Wife

Tucci married his first wife Katherine Louise Spath, popularly known as Kate Spath in 1995. Spath was a social worker and the ex-wife of Alexander Scott who was the older brother of Stanley’s friend Campell Scott. Moreover, Tucci and his first wife Kate had three children together. Tucci also raised Kate’s two children from her previous marriage with Alexander Scott.

Besides, Tucci left Kate for Edie Falco in 2002, however, the relationship ended with Tucci going back to Kate. Kate Spath passed away in 2009 after a long battle with breast cancer.

Stanley Tucci Children

Tucci has five children; four daughters and a son. Two with his wife Felicity Blunt and three with his late first wife Kate Spath.  Tucci’s children with Kate Spath are daughters Isabel, Camilla, and Nicolo while Tucci’s children with wife Felicity Blunt are son Matteo (born in January 2015), and daughter Emilia (born in April 2018).

Stanley Tucci Movies and TV Shows

Tucci is an actor, screenwriter, voice actor, film and television producer, author, and former model.  As an actor, he has appeared in a number of films and TV shows. He made his acting debut at a very young age with John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor (1985). Some of Tucci’s notable films include:

  • The Imposters (1998)
  • The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
  • The Lovely Bones (2009)
  • Julie &  Julia (2009)
  • Easy A ( 2010)
  • Captain America: The First Avenger (2010)
  • Spotlight (2015)
  • Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  • Beauty and the Beast (2017)
  • Final Portrait (2017)
  • The Children Act (2017)
  •  Supernova (2020)
  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
  • A Little Chaos (2014)
  • Transformers Age of Extinction (2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015)
  • Spotlight (2015)
  • Final Portrait (2017)
  • Beauty and the Beast (2017)
  • Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
  • The Children Act (2017)
  • A Private War (2018)
  • Supernova (2020)
  • Worth (2021)
  • Jolt (2021)
  • I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022

While Some of Tucci’s  TV shows  include:

  • Murder One (1995-96)
  • Winchell (1998)
  • Conspiracy (2001)
  • 3 lbs (2006)
  • Feud (2017)
  • Limetown (2018)
  • The Hunger Games (2012-2015)
  • Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (2021-)

Moreover, as a voice actor, Tucci had roles in:

  • Central Park– Bitsy Brandenham voice
  • Robot Chicken- Rich Uncle Pennybags
  • The Wind Rises-Giovanni Battista Caproni

Stanley Tucci Books

Tucci is a writer and he has authored a number of books including:

  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • The Tucci Table: Cooking With Family and Friends
  • The Tucci Cookbook

Tucci Awards

Some of the awards Tucci has received are:

  • Emmy Award- Winchell (1998) for Outstanding lead actor and Emmy Award – Monk
  • Emmy Award- producer of Park Bench with Steve Buscemi
  • Golden Globe Award- for best actor -Miniseries or Television Film in Winchell.

Stanley Tucci Searching for Italy

Tucci is the host of Searching for Italy a CNN travel show that focuses on exploring the food of six of Italy’s best-loved places: Naples and the Amalfi Coast, Rome, Bologna, Milan, Tuscany, and Sicily.  While its focus is on food, the show also touches on the history, culture, and politics of Italy.

Tucci lived in Italy for a year when his father, a high school teacher, took a one-year sabbatical in 1972 to study figure-drawing sculpture in Florence and the family came along with him.  For a year, Stanley went to an Italian school while his dad studied art. He says the experience “changed everything,” ” First of all, that trip helped  inform my aesthetic, two, it made me appreciate a European lifestyle and sensibility.”

New episodes of the show premiered on March 13, 2022, on CNN. Watch the show on Sundays at 9 pm on CNN.

 Stanley Tucci Net worth

Tucci has an estimated net worth of $30 million in 2022.  He has amassed his big fortune through his career as an actor, writer, film producer and director, and as well as screenwriter. His estimated annual salary is $6 million.

Instagram

Stanley is active on Instagram. His Instagram handle is @stanleytucci with 1.2 million followers as of March 2022.