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Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg (/ˈstuːlˌbɑːrɡ/ STOOL-barg; born July 5, 1968) is an American actor. He is known as a character actor, having portrayed a variety of roles in film, television, and theatre. He has received several awards, including nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. He rose to prominence as tr... more

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 since become known as a character actor and 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), and Stanley Edgar Hyman in Shirley (2020). His other supporting roles include Hugo (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012), Blue Jasmine (2013), Pawn Sacrifice (2014), Arrival (2016), Call Me by Your Name and The Shape of Water (both 2017), and Bones and All (2022). He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, appearing as Nicodemus West in Doctor Strange (2016) and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).

On television, he portrayed Arnold Rothstein in HBO's Boardwalk Empire (2010–2013), Richard A. Clarke in The Looming Tower (2018), and Richard Sackler in Dopesick (2021), receiving Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie nominations for the latter two. He also acted in FX's Fargo (2017), Showtime's Your Honour (2020–2023), and HBO's The Staircase (2022). On stage, Stuhlbarg has acted in numerous productions, including the 2005 debut of Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman on Broadway, for which he won a Drama Desk Award and received a Tony Award nomination. He returned to Broadway playing Boris Berezovsky in Peter Morgan's Patriots (2024) and received a second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Play.

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(2016)

Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

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.

Runtime:

116 min

Director:

Denis Villeneuve

Cast:

Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker

8.0

94%

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Call Me by Your Name

(2017)

Drama, Romance

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

Runtime:

132 min

Director:

Luca Guadagnino

Cast:

Timothée Chalamet, Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Armie Hammer

7.9

95%

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Hugo

(2011)

Adventure, Drama, Family

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,...

Runtime:

126 min

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Cast:

Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jude Law

7.5

94%

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The Shape of Water

(2017)

Drama, Fantasy, Romance

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.

Runtime:

123 min

Director:

Guillermo del Toro

Cast:

Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Michael Shannon, Sally Hawkins

7.4

92%

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Lincoln

(2012)

Drama, History

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 mome...

Runtime:

149 min

Director:

Steven Spielberg

Cast:

Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader

7.4

90%

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Blue Jasmine

(2013)

Drama

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.

Runtime:

99 min

Director:

Woody Allen

Cast:

Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K.

7.3

91%

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Seven Psychopaths

(2012)

Comedy, Crime

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

Runtime:

110 min

7.2

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Body of Lies

(2008)

Action, Drama, Thriller

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 event...

Runtime:

128 min

Director:

Ridley Scott

Cast:

Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong, Ali Suliman, Simon McBurney

7.1

55%

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

(2022)

Action, Adventure, Fantasy

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.

Runtime:

126 min

Cast:

Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benedict Cumberbatch

6.9

73%

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A Serious Man

(2009)

Comedy, Drama

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.

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cast:

Michael Stuhlbarg, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind, Richard Kind, Fred Melamed

7.1

89%

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Men in Black 3

(2012)

Action, Comedy, Science Fiction

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 the...

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Cast:

Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emma Thompson

6.8

68%

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The Post

(2017)

Drama, History

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.

Runtime:

116 min

Cast:

Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Alison Brie

7.2

88%

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Trumbo

(2015)

Drama

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Runtime:

124 min

Director:

Jay Roach

Cast:

Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Elle Fanning, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K.

7.5

73%

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Hitchcock

(2012)

Drama

Follow the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous horror-thriller film, Psycho, and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Sacha Gervasi

Cast:

Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, James D'Arcy, Jessica Biel

6.8

62%

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Pawn Sacrifice

(2015)

Drama, Thriller

American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.

Runtime:

115 min

Director:

Edward Zwick

Cast:

Tobey Maguire, Lily Rabe, Peter Sarsgaard, Liev Schreiber, Sophie Nélisse

7.0

72%

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The Grey Zone

(2001)

Drama, War

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Runtime:

108 min

Director:

Tim Blake Nelson

Cast:

David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Natasha Lyonne

7.0

69%

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The Key to Reserva

(2007)

Comedy, Thriller

Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock himself, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.

Runtime:

10 min

Director:

Martin Scorsese

Cast:

Kelli O'Hara, Simon Baker, Martin Scorsese, Michael Stuhlbarg, Christopher Denham

7.9

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Afterschool

(2008)

Drama, Mystery

A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

Runtime:

107 min

Director:

Antonio Campos

Cast:

Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Emory Cohen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rosemarie DeWitt

6.1

80%

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Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

(2014)

Documentary, Drama

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 ...

Runtime:

91 min

Cast:

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7.3

90%

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