Join us for a 90-minute Career Retrospective with actor Michael Stuhlbarg moderated by Richard Ridge (BroadwayWorld).
Michael Stuhlbarg has long been a lauded actor in the New York theatre 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 Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture.
Up next, Michael can be seen in MGM/Amazon’s After the Hunt alongside Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, Chloe Sevigny, and Ayo Edebiri. The film marks Stuhlbarg’s fourth collaboration with director Luca Guadagnino. He plays “Frederik Olsson,” whose wife “Alma Olsson” (Julia Roberts) finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a student levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Some of Stuhlbarg’s other films include Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name; Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water; Miss Sloane with Jessica Chastain; Marvel’s Doctor Strange; Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival; Jobs, directed by Danny Boyle; Trumbo with Bryan Cranston; Miles Ahead with Don Cheadle; Ed Zwick’s Pawn Sacrifice; Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln;
He played the role of New York City mob boss, Arnold Rothstein, on HBO’s award-winning series Boardwalk Empire, has recurred on the Amazon series Transparent, Season Three of the FX Series Fargo, Hulu’s The Looming Tower, for which he earned an Emmy Nomination, the Netflix/Channel 4 Limited Series Traitors, written by Bash Doran, the Hulu Limited Series, Dopesick, for which he earned a second Emmy Nomination, the HBO Max Limited Series The Staircase, and the Showtime Limited Series, Your Honor.
In 2005, Michael 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. Most recently, he was in the Broadway production of Peter Morgan’s Patriots (Tony Award Nomination, Outer Critics Circle Nomination, Drama League Nomination, Drama Desk Nomination), playing the lead role of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky.
Mr. Stuhlbarg has 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 and most recently as the title role in Tim Blake Nelson’s Socrates. Other off-Broadway credits include David Warren’s staging of The Voysey Inheritance (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.
Mr. Stuhlbarg received his BFA from The Juilliard School. He also studied at UCLA, the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania’s Chekhov Studies unit, the British-American Drama Academy at Balio and Keble Colleges in Oxford, and, on a full scholarship, with Marcel Marceau.
Run time: 90 minutes
