Michael Stuhlbarg Biography
Michael Stuhlbarg is an American award-winning Actor best known for starring in A Serious Man (2009), Lincoln (2012), Hitchcock (2012), Steve Jobs (2015), and Trumbo (2015). He rose to fame after starring in the TV series The Staircase (2022).
Michael Stuhlbarg Career
Stewart Stuhlbarg was born in California, in Long Beach. He first went to UCLA and then got his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Juilliard School in New York City. His other schools were the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania, the British American Drama Academy at Baliol and Keble Colleges at Oxford, the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain in London, and the National High School Institute “Cherub” Program at Northwestern University. He got a grant to study with Marcel Marceau while he was at UCLA.
Stuhlbarg was mainly a theater actor in the 1990s and early 2000s. He worked on Broadway in shows like Cabaret, Taking Sides, Saint Joan, The Government Inspector, and Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, which earned him a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and his first nomination for a Tony Award. Off-Broadway, he has played the lead parts in Hamlet and Richard II with the New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as the title role in David Mamet’s version of The Voysey Inheritance, which won him an OBIE.
Stuhlbarg’s first major movie part was as Laurence Gopnik in A Serious Man by Joel and Ethan Coen. For this role, he was nominated for his first Golden Globe. He got his first big TV part in Martin Scorsese and HBO’s period drama Boardwalk Empire, where he played Arnold Rothstein, a figure in organized crime. He was most recently in the critically praised FX show Fargo. In 2018, he will be in The Looming Tower on Hulu.
In the past few years, Stuhlbarg has continued to be in a lot of big movies, such as Arrival, Steve Jobs, Blue Jasmine, Hugo, Seven Psychopaths, Men in Black III, Trumbo, Lincoln, Miss Sloane, Doctor Strange, Miles Ahead, and Pawn Sacrifice. He is in three movies this season: Call Me By Your Name by Luca Guadinino and James Ivory, The Shape of Water by Guillermo del Toro, and The Post by Steven Spielberg.
2012 saw the historical drama Lincoln, which starred Daniel Day-Lewis as President Abraham Lincoln and was directed by Steven Spielberg. As Democratic Congressman George Yeaman from Kentucky, he played the part in the movie. Stuhlbarg played talent agent and studio boss Lew Wasserman in the Alfred Hitchcock biopic Hitchcock, which was his last movie of the year. In Danny Boyle’s 2015 movie about Steve Jobs, Stuhlbarg played Andy Hertzfeld, a computer scientist who worked on the first Mac.
In that same year, he was in two more biographical movies. Trumbo, which was based on the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (played by Bryan Cranston), Stuhlbarg played actor Edward G. Robinson, who was accused of having ties to the Communist Party during the Hollywood blacklist. He also had a supporting role in Miles Ahead, which was based on the life of Miles Davis and starred Don Cheadle.
Stuhlbarg was supposed to play Gore Vidal’s partner Howard Austen in the documentary Gore, which starred Kevin Spacey as Vidal. However, the movie was pulled from theaters during post-production because Spacey was being accused of sexual misconduct. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for his role as counter-terrorism leader Richard A. Clarke in the 2018 miniseries The Looming Tower. He was nominated for a second Primetime Emmy Award for his part as Richard Sackler in the miniseries Dopesick in 2021. From 2020 to 2023, Stuhlbarg played Jimmy Baxter on the TV show Your Honor. Baxter was the boss of a well-known New Orleans crime family.
Michael Stuhlbarg Age
Stuhlbarg was born on July 5, 1968, in Long Beach, California, United States. He is 56 years old as of 2024, and he celebrates his birthday on the 5th of July every year.
Michael Stuhlbarg Height and Weight
Stuhlbarg stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.72m) and weighs 75kgs (165 lbs).
Michael Stuhlbarg Family
Susan and Mort Stuhlbarg are Stuhlbarg’s parents. They raised their son in Long Beach, California. where he was born. His dad had been a salesman before he made a lot of money making security products. He was brought up as a Reform Jew. He said, “It’s more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.” Stuhlbarg got his training at The Juilliard School in New York City. From 1988 to 1992, he was in Group 21 in the Play Division.
Michael Stuhlbarg Wife
Stuhlbarg has been married to Mai-Linh Lofgren since 2013 but they do not have any children yet. However, more information will be updated when available.
Michael Stuhlbarg Net Worth
Stuhlbarg has an estimated net worth of about $10 Million – $20 Million which he has earned through his career as an actor.
Michael Stuhlbarg Salary
Stuhlbarg earns a salary of about $100,000-$500,000.
Michael Stuhlbarg The Staircase
Stuhlbarg plays the role of David Rudolf Michael’s lawyer in the miniseries The Staircase. Michael gets David Rudolf as his defense lawyer to go to court with him. He gets arrested after the grand jury charges him with killing Kathleen. At the same time, attorneys Freda Black and Jim Hardin meet with Candace and Lori and show them Kathleen’s autopsy report and pictures they found in Michael’s office and on his computer. This gives them a reason to believe that Kathleen killed herself in a fight with Michael after finding the pictures.
Michael Stuhlbarg Bones And All
When Stuhlbarg shows up as Jake for the first time, he says that he knows more about Lee than he is saying. In a strong resemblance to George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead, Jake shows up on the side of a field dressed as a farmer. There are more similarities than just that; Lee is slowly becoming aware that both Jake and his partner, Brad (David Gordon Green), like to eat.
This movie’s great script by David Kajganich does a great job of avoiding talking about these “flesh eaters” and how they see themselves. This movie by Stuhlbarg shows how hard it is for these cannibals to tell other people who they are; if they tell the wrong person, they might be seen as a threat. Lee, Maren, Jake, and Brad all sit around and talk while a fire burns. The younger couple starts to notice that their new friends aren’t a normal couple, even by cannibal standards.
Stuhlbarg is so enticing in this role that it seems like Jake has been waiting a long time to tell another young couple this secret. When Maren responds with disgust, it forces her to deal with the problems she’s been having with Lee. She is afraid of turning into the monster her father thought she was, and she is mad at Lee for eating a family member.
Michael Stuhlbarg Doctor Strange
Stuhlbarg plays the role of Nicodemus West in the film Doctor Strange. Nicodemus West was born with heterochromia and learned and worked as a doctor and surgeon for most of his life. He had admired Dr. Stephen Strange for a long time and was happy to be able to help him fix his hands after the terrible accident. West was not able to fix Strange’s nerves of the hand.
Strange led him to Kamar-Taj, where he too started to learn from the Ancient One. West quits his training early because he thinks he can fix everyone with his new skills, but because he is still learning, he kills a cancer patient by accident. He finally gets the job as CEO of Timely Pharmaceuticals, but they tell him they won’t let him use magic again. He finally tells Strange who he is when he steals a special elixir that could hurt Timely Pharmaceuticals’ business.
They use their magic to fight, but Strange easily beats West. West dies when he loses his strength for a short time and falls off the Pharmaceuticals building. In the live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe movies Doctor Strange and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Nicodemus “Nic” West can be seen. This version is a disputing surgeon to Dr. Stephen Strange who is just there to make things fun and isn’t trying to do anything bad.
Michael Stuhlbarg Joaquin Phoenix
Although Stuhlbarg and Phoenix look a lot alike, they are not connected. Joaquin Rafael Phoenix is an actor from the United States. He has won several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, for playing dark and unusual characters in independent films and period plays.
Michael Stuhlbarg Movies and TV Shows
- The Staircase
- Dopesick
- Your Honor
- Traitors
- The Looming Tower
- Fargo
- Bones and All
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Beckett
- Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
- Shirley
- The Post