Michael Stuhlbarg
Michael Stuhlbarg ( born July 5, 1968 in Long Beach, California) is an American actor.
Life
Stuhlbarg grew up in Long Beach and played as a child theater. From 1986 to 1988 he studied at the Department of Theatre at UCLA, then at the Juilliard School in New York, where he also received his degree.
Since the early 1990s at New York's Broadway theater he plays. For his portrayal of Edmund Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night, a production of the American Repertory Theater in 1996, he received an Elliot Norton Award. In John Crowley's successful staging of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman at the Booth Theatre in 2005, he played opposite Billy Crudup, Jeff Goldblum and Zeljko Ivanek. For this work, Stuhlbarg was nominated in 2005 for the Tony Award as Best Supporting Actor.
Since the mid- 2000s, he in addition to his theater work intensified television and film roles. He stepped in episodes of Law & Order and Ugly Betty to 2009 and played a major role in the pilot episode of HBO's Boardwalk Empire, directed by Martin Scorsese, with whom he had worked at the Hitchcock spoof The Key to Reserva in 2007. In the cinema he was, after a few minor roles, first seen in 2009 in a leading role. In A Serious Man by the Coen Brothers he plays Larry Gopnik, a Jewish physics professor in Minneapolis in 1967 His performance earned him, among others, the Satellite Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
In early 2011 Stuhlbarg played character roles in the two 3D productions Hugo Cabret (again directed by Martin Scorsese ) and Men in Black 3