Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg
Stuhlbarg in 2018
Born	(1968-07-05) July 5, 1968 (age 56) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Education	University of California, Los Angeles Juilliard School (BFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1992–present
Spouse	Mai-Linh Lofgren ​ (m. 2013)​

Michael Stuhlbarg (/ˈstuːlˌbɑːrɡ/ STOOL-barg; born July 5, 1968)^[1] is an American actor. He is known as a character actor having portrayed a variety of roles on stage and screen. He has received nominations for two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and two Tony Awards.

He rose to prominence playing a troubled university professor in the Joel and Ethan Coen's dark comedy film A Serious Man (2009). Stuhlbarg has portrayed 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). He has also acted in Hugo (2011), Men in Black 3 (2012), Blue Jasmine (2013), 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 playing Nicodemus West in Doctor Strange (2016) and its 2022 sequel.

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 Honor (2020–2023), and HBO's The Staircase (2022).

On stage, Stuhlbarg made his Broadway debut in the revival of the George Bernard Shaw play Saint Joan (1993). He earned Tony Award nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Play for his role a traumatized man in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman (2005) and Best Actor in a Play for his portrayal of Boris Berezovsky in Peter Morgan's Patriots (2024).