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BIO
Michael Stuhlbarg had long been a lauded actor in the New York theatre world, but it wasn’t until he played Larry Gopnik in the Coen Brothers’ A Serious Man that he earned serious recognition from the film community including a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture. His other films include Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water, Miss Sloane, Doctor Strange, Arrival, Jobs, Trumbo, Miles Ahead, Pawn Sacrifice, Lincoln, Blue Jasmine, Cut Bank, Hitchcock, Men in Black 3, Hugo, Body of Lies, The Grey Zone, Cold Souls, and The Key to Reserva. Recent work includes Shirley, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Bones & All, and The Instigators. He played New York City mob boss Arnold Rothstein on HBO’s award-winning “Boardwalk Empire,” has recurred on Amazon’s “Transparent,” appeared in season three of FX’s “Fargo,” Hulu’s “The Looming Tower” (Emmy nomination), Netflix/Channel 4’s “Traitors,” Hulu’s “Dopesick”(Emmy nomination), HBO Max’s “The Staircase,” and Showtime’s “Your Honor.” In 2005, he was a Tony Award nominee and Drama Desk Award winner for Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman. He was also honored with the New Dramatists Charles Bowden Actor Award and the Elliot Norton Boston Theatre Award, the latter for his performance in Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Other Broadway credits: National Actors Theatre’s Saint Joan, Three Men on a Horse, Timon of Athens, The Government Inspector, Ronald Harwood’s Taking Sides, Sam Mendes’ revival of Cabaret, and Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love. New York Shakespeare Festival: Twelfth Night, Richard II, Hamlet in Oskar Eustis’ production of Hamlet, Tim Blake Nelson’s Socrates. Other Off-Broadway credits: The Voysey Inheritance (Obie and Callaway Awards, Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Cymbeline, Old Wicked Songs, Measure For Pleasure (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), and The Grey Zone. BFA from The Juilliard School. He also studied at UCLA, at the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania’s Chekhov Studies unit, at the British-American Drama Academy at Balliol and Keble Colleges in Oxford, and, on a full scholarship, with Marcel Marceau.
STAGE CREDITS
Movies
[ 1998 ] Young Hsid
[ 1999 ] Robert, Ross
[ 2001 ] Cohen
[ 2008 ] FerrisAttorney
[ 2008 ] Mr. Burke
[ 2009 ] Hedge Fund Consultant
[ 2009 ] Larry Gopnik
[ 2011 ] Rene Tabard
[ 2012 ] George Yeaman
[ 2012 ] Griffin
[ 2012 ] Lew Wserman
[ 2012 ] Tommy
[ 2013 ] Dr. Flicker
[ 2014 ] Derby Milton
[ 2014 ] Paul Marshall
[ 2015 ] Andy Hertzfeld
[ 2015 ] Edward G. Robinson
[ 2015 ] Harper
[ 2016 ] Agent Halpern
[ 2016 ] Dr. Nicodemus West
[ 2016 ] Pat Connors
[ 2017 ] Abe Rosenthal
[ 2017 ] Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
[ 2017 ] Mr. Perlman
[ 2020 ] Stanley Hyman
[ 2021 ] April's Father
[ 2022 ] Dr. Nic West Michael Stühlbarg
[ 2022 ] Jake
[ 2024 ] Mr. Besegai
[ 2025 ] Schiller
[ 2025 ] Frederik Olsson
[ 2026 ]
TV Shows
Arnold Rothstein
Jerry
Chaim
Jimmy Baxter
Awards and Nominations
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots
Michael Stuhlbarg, Patriots
Michael Stuhlbarg, Socrates
winner
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Voysey Inheritance
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Voysey Inheritance
Michael Stuhlbarg, Measure for Pleasure
winner
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Pillowman
winner
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Pillowman
Michael Stuhlbarg, The Pillowman
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Michael Stuhlbarg has appeared on Broadway in 9 shows.
Michael Stuhlbarg has not appeared in the West End.
Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for Patriots, Distinguished Performance (Drama League Awards) for Patriots, Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Play (Outer Critics Circle Awards) for Patriots, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for Patriots, Distinguished Performance Award (Drama League Awards) for Socrates, Performance (Obie Awards) for The Voysey Inheritance, Outstanding Lead Actor (The Lortels) for The Voysey Inheritance, Outstanding Lead Actor (The Lortels) for Measure for Pleasure, Best Featured Actor in a Play (BroadwayWorld Awards) for The Pillowman , Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Drama Desk Awards) for The Pillowman and Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Tony Awards) for The Pillowman.
Michael Stuhlbarg has won the Obie Award for Performance for The Voysey Inheritance, the BroadwayWorld Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Pillowman, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, also for The Pillowman.
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