Michael Stuhlbarg

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Michael Stuhlbarg (born July 5, 1968) is an American actor.

In the 2009 dark comedy film A Serious Man, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, Larry Gopnik came to fame as a struggling university professor Larry Gopnik.

Stuhlbarg has appeared in several films and television series starring real life figures, including George Yeaman in Lincoln (2012), Lew Wasserman in Hitchcock (2012), Andrew G. Robinson in Trumbo (2015), and Arnold Rothstein in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010-2013).

Men in Black 3 (2012), Blue Jasmine (2013), Arrival (2016), and Doctor Strange (2016), as well as the third season of the anthology television series Fargo (2017), are among the notable supporting roles.

Stuhlbarg appeared in Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water, and The Post in 2017, all three of whom were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Stuhlbarg received multiple accolades in the support actor category for his film "call Me By Your Name."

He appeared in the Hulu miniseries The Looming Tower, for which he was given a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.

Stuhlbarg has appeared in numerous productions, including the 2005 debut of The Pillowman on Broadway, for which he received a Drama Desk Award and a Tony Award nomination.

Early life

Stuhlbarg was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Susan and Mort Stuhlbarg, both philanthropists. He was born as a Reform Jew. "It's more of a spiritual resonance than to Judaism in particular," he said. Stuhlbarg attended The Juilliard School in New York City, where he served as a member of the Drama Division's Group 21 (1988–1992). In 1992, he graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Stuhlbarg has also performed at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania, the British American Drama Academy at Oxford, and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain at the University of London. He also studied mime with Marcel Marceau. Stuhlbarg was married to Mai-Linh Lofgren.

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Career

Stuhlbarg began his work in stage performances. Stuhlbarg played Charles VII of France in a 1993 production, but UPI critic Frederick M. Winship thought that Stuhlbarg was miscast in the film. In a Richard II production, he portrayed the title character the following year. As a theater critic, David Richards dubbed Stuhlbarg a "promising young actor," but I'd prefer to believe it wasn't his fault." He appeared in Old Wicked Songs, the two character play. Stuhlbarg received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actor in a large corporation production in 1996 for his role in Long Day's Journey into Night. Stuhlbarg appeared in several roles, including Thomas Cranmer, in a 1997 Henry VIII production.

Stuhlbarg made his film debut in Renée Zellweger's 1998 film A Price Above Rubies. Stuhlbarg performed Ernst Ludwig, a German who is later revealed to be a Nazi during the production of the musical Cabaret in 1999. Stuhlbarg appeared in a 2000 version of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale both Time and Clown; New York Press critic Jonathan Kalb praised his "endearing stutter and hopping gait." Stuhlbarg played a Jewish Hungarian who becomes a Sonderkommando in the Nazi Germany Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, directed by Tim Blake Nelson (2001). Stuhlbarg had appeared in the same production by Nelson in 1996. Stuhlbarg gave a critically acclaimed role in the 2005 Broadway production of the Martin McDonagh play The Pillowman after appearances in productions of Cymbeline, Twelfth Night, and The Persians. He played Michal, a physically handicapped man who has suffered years of violence from his parents, and gained 50 pounds for the role. "Both the innocence and ugliness of Michal," Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised Stuhlbarg for "boldly and expertly" capturing "both the innocence and ugliness of Michal." Stuhlbarg received his first Tony Award nomination for his role in a Play, as well as his first Tony Award nomination for his work.

Stuhlbarg appeared in the plays Measure for Pleasure and The Voysey Inheritance in 2006. From 2006 to 2007, he appeared on Aaron Sorkin's television show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, which aired for one season. His first film appearance of 2008 was the independent drama Afterschool, in which he played a "sanctimonious" high school principal and he appeared as a lawyer in Ridley Scott's Body of Lies. Stuhlbarg also appeared Prince Hamlet in Oskar Eustis' production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Delacorte Theater in 2008. Stuhlbarg was portrayed as the lead character in the Coen brothers' film A Serious Man in August of that year. In October 2009, the dark comedy, in which he portrayed struggling Jewish university professor Larry Gopnik, was released. "Much of the movie's popularity comes from the way Michael Stuhlbarg plays the role," Chicago Sun-Times analyst Roger Ebert said. He doesn't play Gopnik as a sad-sack or a loser, a whiner, or a depressive, but as a hopeful man who can't explain what's going on around him. For his role in the film, he was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. Stuhlbarg appeared in the comedy "There's No Place Like Mode" of the comedy film Ugly Betty, his previous publication of 2009.

In Terence Winter's HBO crime drama series Boardwalk Empire, beginning in September 2010, Stuhlbarg portrayed organized crime boss Arnold Rothstein. After the show's fourth season in 2013, the character was written off. After having previously directed Stuhlbarg in the short film The Key to Reserva (2007), Martin Scorsese produced the pilot episode of the show. René Tabard, a film historian, was played by Stuhlbarg in Scorsese's historical adventure film Hugo (2011). Stuhlbarg appeared in Men in Black 3 (2012) as Griffin, an alien with clairvoyant skills who assists Agent J (played by Will Smith and Josh Brolin) and K (played by Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin) on their mission. After seeing Stuhlbarg's script and notebook packed with "tiny scribbles, notes, diagrams," he said, "It made me wonder if I had really cast an alien." All his little notes made sense to Michael. They were frightening and indecipherable to me later this year. Stuhlbarg briefly appeared as a hitman alongside his Boardwalk Empire co-star Michael Pitt in Martin McDonagh's dark comedy Seven Psychopaths. Lincoln's third release of 2012 was the historical drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln. In the film, he portrayed Democratic congressman George Yeaman, representative of Kentucky. Lew Wasserman, the Alfred Hitchcock biopic, was his last release of the year, with Stuhlbarg portraying talent agent and studio executive Lew Wasserman. Stuhlbarg played a dentist in Woody Allen's comedy-drama Blue Jasmine (2013), starring Cate Blanchett, depicting Blanchett as a dentist who makes inappropriate sexual advances to Blanchett's character.

In the 2014 film Pawn Sacrifice, starring Tobey Maguire as Fischer, Stuhlbarg played chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer. Stuhlbarg portrayed computer scientist Andy Hertzfeld, who was a member of the original Mac team, in Danny Boyle's 2015 Steve Jobs biopic. He appeared in two other biographical films in the year (such as Bryan Cranston), Trumbo, based on screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's life, star John G. Robinson, who was accused of having links to the Communist Party during the Hollywood blacklist, and Stuhlbarg was playing a supporting role in Don Cheadle's Miles Ahead, based on Miles Davis's life. Stuhlbarg appeared in the science fiction film Arrival (2016), as the trio of Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker attempted to translate messages from an extraterrestrial craft. Stuhlbarg played Nicodemus West, a coworker and competitor of the titular character in Doctor Strange's Benedict Cumberbatch's animated version. Miss Sloane, Stuhlbarg, the year's best-selling book, was included in his final release of the year as an Irish lobbying group fighting against gun control. Brian Truitt of USA Today praised his "superb" appearance and named him "One of the best in Hollywood right now" in Hollywood.

Stuhlbarg played Sy Feltz, Ewan McGregor's loyal and faithful business partner to Emmit Stussy's character in the third season of the crime anthology television series Fargo. In April 2017, the season premiered. Samuel Perlman, an archaeology professor whose son Elio (played by Timothée Chalamet), develops a friendship with his father's assistant (played by Armie Hammer in the romantic drama Call Me by Your Name) in November. Perlman's "sense of compassion and love and compassion" as well as a wealth of knowledge and culture. Perlman's consoling address in the film was characterized by Huffington Post writer Nell Minow as "one of the most touching scenes ever shot." Stuhlbarg was required to speak Russian to play Dr. Robert Hoffstetler, a Soviet spy, in Guillermo del Toro's fantasy drama The Shape of Water, which was released in December 2017 to critical and box office success. In Steven Spielberg's political thriller The Washington Post and The Times starred Tom Hanks and Meryl St. St. George, and it depicts the unveiling of the Pentagon Papers by journalists from The Washington Post and The Times, his final appearance of 2017 and second appearance of December. With his appearances in Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water, and The Washington, he became the sixth actor to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture in the same year.

Stuhlbarg was supposed to appear in Gore's domestic partner Howard Austen in the film Gore, starring Kevin Spacey as Vidal, but the film was suspended from release during post-production due to continuing sexual assault allegations against Spacey. Richard A. Clarke, the czar of the Looming Tower in 2018, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

Stuhlbarg played Jimmy Baxter, the mob boss of a prominent organized crime family in New Orleans, in the miniseries Your Honor (2020).

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