Michael Stuhlbarg Biography
Born: July 05, 1968
Date of Birth: July 5, 1968
Michael 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 Marcel Marceau.
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, The Government Inspector, Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides, Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret and Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love.
Stuhlbarg's New York Shakespeare Festival stage credits include Twelfth Night, as Aguecheek, and Richard II, in the lead role. He has starred in a host of off-Broadway productions, playing the title roles in Oskar Eustis' staging of Hamlet, for which he won a Drama League Award; and David Warren's staging of The Voysey Inheritance, for which he received Obie, Callaway, and Lucille Lortel Award nominations. He has also starred off-Broadway in such shows as Cymbeline, reprising his role in a U.K. stint of the production; The Waverly Gallery; Old Wicked Songs, for which he was a Drama League Award recipient; and The Grey Zone.
When the latter show's playwright Tim Blake Nelson adapted and directed a feature film version, Mr. Stuhlbarg appeared in the movie as well, playing a different role than he had in the stage version. His other films include Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio; Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies; Antonio Campos' Afterschool, which was showcased at the 2008 New York and Cannes International Film Festivals, and Sophie Barthes' Cold Souls, with Paul Giamatti and David Strathairn. For his work in Ethan and Joel Coen's A Serious Man, he received a Golden Globe nomination.
He reteamed with Scorsese, co-starring in the prohibition series Boardwalk Empire. He has also made guest appearances on such television series as Damages and, most memorably, Ugly Betty.
In recent years, he landed the role of Griffin in the sequel Men in Black 3 (2012), followed by a role in the Woody Allen drama Blue Jasmine (2013), in the thriller Cut Bank (2015), and in the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead (2015).
Stuhlbarg then went on to be seen in the space drama Arrival (2016) starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner, the Marvel reboot Doctor Strange (2016) starring Benedict Cumberbatch, and the action thriller Miss Sloane (2016) starring Jessica Chastain. His latest credits include roles in films such as Call Me by Your Name (2017), the sci-fi/romance The Shape of Water (2017) and drama The Post (2018).
Filmography:
Call Me by Your Name (2017)The Shape of Water (2017)
Miss Sloane (2016)
Doctor Strange (2016)
Arrival (2016)
Miles Ahead (2015)
Cut Bank (2015)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Trumbo (2015)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Second Season (2012)
Men in Black 3 (2012)
Hugo (2011)
Cold Souls (2009)
A Serious Man (2009)
Body of Lies (2008)
The Grey Zone (2002)