Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg has long been a lauded actor in the New York theater world, but it wasn't until he played Larry Gopnik, the lead role 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.

Stuhlbarg's other films include: Denis Villeneuve's Arrival; Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle; Trumbo with Bryan Cranston; Miles Ahead with Don Cheadle; Edward Zwick's Pawn Sacrifice; Steven Spielberg's Lincoln; Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine; Cut Bank; Hitchcock; Men in Black 3; Martin Scorsese's Hugo; Ridley Scott's Body of Lies; Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone; Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls; and Martin Scorsese's short homage to Alfred Hitchcock, The Key to Reserva.
Stuhlbarg played the role of New York City mob boss Arnold Rothstein on HBO's award-winning series Boardwalk Empire and has recurred on the Amazon series Transparent.

In 2005, Stuhlbarg was a Tony Award nominee and a Drama Desk Award winner for his performance in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman. He has also been 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. The actor's other Broadway credits include the National Actors Theatre productions of Saint Joan, Three Men on a Horse, Timon of Athens, and The Government Inspector; Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides; Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret; and Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.

Stuhlbarg has also worked numerous times with the New York Shakespeare Festival. His critically acclaimed credits include Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, the title role in Richard II, and Hamlet in Oskar Eustis' production of the famous tragedy, for which he won a Drama League Award.

Other Off-Broadway credits include David Warren's staging of The Voysey Inheritance, for which he received Obie and Callaway Awards and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination; Cymbeline, reprising his role in a U.K. stint of the production; Old Wicked Songs (Drama League Award recipient); Measure For Pleasure (Lucille Lortel Award nomination); and The Grey Zone.

Stuhlbarg received his 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 Baliol and Keble Colleges in Oxford, and, on a full scholarship, with French actor and mime Marcel Marceau.

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