Stanley Tucci is an American actor, writer, film producer and film director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Lovely Bones (2009), and won an Emmy Award for his performance in Winchell. He also was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, for The One And Only Shrek.

Tucci played Dr. Abraham Erskine in 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger. Through 2013 he has continued to appear in such films as The Devil Wears Prada and Julie & Julia, The Hunger Games and its sequel, and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.