Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg

Born: July 5, 1968
in Long Beach, California, USA
Michael Stewart Stuhlbarg (born July 5, 1968) is an American actor. He rose to prominence as troubled university professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 dark comedy film A Serious Man, directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Stuhlbarg has appeared in numerous films and television series portraying real life figures, such as George Yeaman in Lincoln (2012), Lew Wasserman in Hitchcock (2012), Andy Hertzfeld in Steve Jobs (2015), Edward G. Robinson in Trumbo (2015), Abe Rosenthal in The Post (2017), Stanley Edgar Hyman in Shirley (2020), Arnold Rothstein in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010–2013), Richard A. Clarke in The Looming Tower (2018), and as Richard Sackler in Dopesick (2021). His performance in The Looming Tower earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie. Stuhlbarg's other notable supporting roles include Hugo (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012), Blue Jasmine (2013), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Arrival (2016), and Doctor Strange (2016), the third season of the anthology television series Fargo (2017), as well as on the Showtime series Your Honor (2020-present).

In 2017, Stuhlbarg appeared in the films Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, and The Post, all three of which were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. For Call Me By Your Name, Stuhlbarg received multiple film critics' award nominations in the supporting actor category. On stage, Stuhlbarg has acted in numerous productions including the 2005 debut of The Pillowman on Broadway, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award nomination.

Movies for Michael Stuhlbarg...

Rothko
Title: Rothko
Released: October 25, 2024
Type: Movie
Kate Rothko, the daughter of revered U.S. painter Mark Rothko, is drawn into a protracted legal battle with her father's estate executors and gallery directors, in a fight to honor his legacy.
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The Instigators
Title: The Instigators
Character: Mr. Besegai
Released: August 2, 2024
Type: Movie
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.
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Bones and All
Title: Bones and All
Character: Jake
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
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Title: The Staircase
Character: David Rudolf
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: TV
An exploration of the life of Michael Peterson, his sprawling North Carolina family, and the suspicious death of his wife, Kathleen Peterson.
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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Title: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Character: Dr. Nicodemus 'Nic' West
Released: May 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to confront a mysterious new adversary.
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Title: Dopesick
Character: Richard Sackler
Released: October 13, 2021
Type: TV
The story of how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. Look into the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of "one percenter" Big Pharma Manhattan.
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Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Title: Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.
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American Oz
Title: American Oz
Character: L. Frank Baum (voice)
Released: April 19, 2021
Type: Movie
Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published, Baum was 44 years old and had spent much of his life in restless pursuit of success.
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Title: Your Honor
Character: Jimmy Baxter
Released: December 6, 2020
Type: TV
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato is forced to confront his own deepest convictions when his son is involved in a hit and run that embroils an organized crime family.
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Shirley
Title: Shirley
Character: Stanley Hyman
Released: September 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
Title: Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
Character: Self
Released: June 19, 2020
Type: Movie
What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied under Moni Yakim at Juilliard, United States' greatest performing arts school. This compelling portrait of the master teacher - the sole remaining founder of the school's legendary Drama Division - takes us inside the drama classes where Moni and his wife Mina pour their love and passion into preparing the next generation of actors for the spotlight.
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Title: Traitors
Character: Rowe
Released: February 17, 2019
Type: TV
1945 London. Feef is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.
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Title: The Looming Tower
Character: Richard Clarke
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: TV
While Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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The Post
Title: The Post
Character: Abe Rosenthal
Released: December 22, 2017
Type: Movie
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
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The Shape of Water
Title: The Shape of Water
Character: Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
Released: December 1, 2017
Type: Movie
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
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Call Me by Your Name
Title: Call Me by Your Name
Character: Mr. Perlman
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.
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Miss Sloane
Title: Miss Sloane
Character: Pat Connors
Released: November 25, 2016
Type: Movie
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
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Arrival
Title: Arrival
Character: Agent Halpern
Released: November 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
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Doctor Strange
Title: Doctor Strange
Character: Dr. Nicodemus West
Released: October 25, 2016
Type: Movie
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
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Miles Ahead
Title: Miles Ahead
Character: Harper Hamilton
Released: January 22, 2016
Type: Movie
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
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Trumbo
Title: Trumbo
Character: Edward G. Robinson
Released: October 27, 2015
Type: Movie
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Steve Jobs
Title: Steve Jobs
Character: Andy Hertzfeld
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
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Pawn Sacrifice
Title: Pawn Sacrifice
Character: Paul Marshall
Released: September 16, 2015
Type: Movie
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
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Carvalho's Journey
Title: Carvalho's Journey
Character: Narrator
Released: July 28, 2015
Type: Movie
Carvalho's Journey is a feature length documentary about Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897) a pioneering American Jewish artist and daguerreotypist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Produced for national broadcast on PBS, film festivals and wide educational distribution, the film tells the saga of Carvalho's extraordinary trip across the west as the first photographer to accompany an exploring expedition to the West. Visually ambitious and extensively researched, the film features interviews with scholars and writers, rare archival materials, original landscape cinematography and re-creations of the daguerreotype process to weave together a compelling narrative of the expansion of the American continent as seen through the eyes of a pioneering American artist.
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The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Title: The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 2014
Type: Movie
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.
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Cut Bank
Title: Cut Bank
Character: Derby Milton
Released: October 4, 2014
Type: Movie
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...
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The 50 Year Argument
Title: The 50 Year Argument
Character: Narration
Released: June 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for over 50 years. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such icons as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review’s West Village offices.
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Title: Fargo
Character: Sy Feltz
Released: April 15, 2014
Type: TV
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Title: Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
Character: Jerome Robbins (voice)
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Of all the great ballerinas, Tanaquil Le Clercq may have been the most transcendent. With a body unlike any before hers, she mesmerized viewers and choreographers alike. With her elongated, race-horse physique, she became the new prototype for the great George Balanchine. Because of her extraordinary movement and unique personality on stage, she became a muse to two of the greatest choreographers in dance, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She eventually married Balanchine, and Robbins created his famous version of Afternoon of a Faun for her. She had love, fame, adoration, and was the foremost dancer of her day until it suddenly all stopped. At the age of 27, she was struck down by polio and paralyzed. She never danced again. The ballet world has been haunted by her story ever since.
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Blue Jasmine
Title: Blue Jasmine
Character: Dr. Flicker
Released: August 1, 2013
Type: Movie
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.
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Hitchcock
Title: Hitchcock
Character: Lew Wasserman
Released: November 22, 2012
Type: Movie
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel "Psycho." When the studio refuses to back the picture, Hitchcock decides to pay for it himself in exchange for a percentage of the profits. His wife, Alma Reville, has serious reservations about the film but supports him nonetheless. Still, the production strains the couple's marriage.
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Lincoln
Title: Lincoln
Character: George Yeaman
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
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Seven Psychopaths
Title: Seven Psychopaths
Character: Tommy
Released: October 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
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Men in Black 3
Title: Men in Black 3
Character: Griffin
Released: May 23, 2012
Type: Movie
Agents J and K are back...in time. J has seen some inexplicable things in his 15 years with the Men in Black, but nothing, not even aliens, perplexes him as much as his wry, reticent partner. But when K's life and the fate of the planet are put at stake, Agent J will have to travel back in time to put things right. J discovers that there are secrets to the universe that K never told him - secrets that will reveal themselves as he teams up with the young Agent K to save his partner, the agency, and the future of humankind.
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Hugo
Title: Hugo
Character: René Tabard
Released: November 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
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Title: Boardwalk Empire
Character: Arnold Rothstein
Released: September 19, 2010
Type: TV
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
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Goldstar, Ohio
Title: Goldstar, Ohio
Character: The Interviewer
Released: March 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.
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Afterschool
Title: Afterschool
Character: Mr. Burke
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
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A Serious Man
Title: A Serious Man
Character: Larry Gopnik
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
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Cold Souls
Title: Cold Souls
Character: Hedge Fund Consultant
Released: August 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by extracting souls. He enlists their services—only to discover that his soul is the shape and size of a chickpea.
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Body of Lies
Title: Body of Lies
Character: Ferris' Attorney
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – watches Ferris. At the other end of that real-time link is the CIA’s Ed Hoffman, strategizing events from thousands of miles away. And as Ferris nears the target, he discovers trust can be just as dangerous as it is necessary for survival.
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The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Title: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Character: Edward Teller
Released: March 24, 2008
Type: Movie
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the bomb brought the war to an end, in spite of his renown and his enormous achievement, America turned on him - humiliated and cast him aside. The question the film asks is, "Why?"
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The Key to Reserva
Title: The Key to Reserva
Character: Louis Bernard
Released: December 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.
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Title: Damages
Character: Dr. Bernard Herschenfeld
Released: July 24, 2007
Type: TV
Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn and Todd A. Kessler. The plot revolves around the brilliant, ruthless lawyer Patty Hewes and her protégée, recent law school graduate Ellen Parsons. Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm take on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The first two seasons center around the law firm Hewes & Associates. Later seasons center more on Patty and Ellen's relationship as Ellen begins to distance herself from Hewes & Associates and begins an independent career.
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Title: Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
Character: Jerry
Released: September 18, 2006
Type: TV
A behind-the-scenes look at a fictional sketch-comedy TV show.
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Title: Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Character: Marcel Costas
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
The third installment of the “Law & Order” franchise takes viewers deep into the minds of its criminals while following the intense psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve its crimes.
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The Grey Zone
Title: The Grey Zone
Character: Cohen
Released: September 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
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The Hunley
Title: The Hunley
Character: Wicks
Released: July 11, 1999
Type: Movie
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a story of heroism in the face of adversity, the Hunley being the first submersible to sink an enemy boat in time of war. It also relates the human side of the story relating the uncommon and extaordinary temperament of the 9 men who led the Hunley into history and died valiantly accomplishing this feat.
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A Price Above Rubies
Title: A Price Above Rubies
Character: Young Hassid
Released: March 26, 1998
Type: Movie
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her life.
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Title: Law & Order
Character: Timothy Pace
Released: September 13, 1990
Type: TV
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Title: Hollywood Insider
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Gore
Title: Gore
Character: Howard Austen
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man spends a summer in Italy where he meets his idol, Gore Vidal, who teaches him about life, love, and politics.