Biography
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 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...
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Complete Filmography

Judy
2026
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everythi...

After the Hunt
2025
as Frederik Olsson
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and ...

The Amateur
2025
as Schiller
After his life is turned upside down when his wife is killed in a London terrorist attack, a brilliant but introverted CIA decoder takes matters into ...

The Instigators
2024
as Mr. Besegai
Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. But when it goes awry, they team up with an unusual accomplice — Rory's therapist — ...

Bones and All
2022
as Jake
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. ...

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
2022
as Dr. Nic West
Doctor Strange, with the help of mystical allies both old and new, traverses the mind-bending and dangerous alternate realities of the Multiverse to c...

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
2021
as Self - Narrator (voice)
In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in...

American Oz
2021
as L. Frank Baum (voice)
Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when Th...

Shirley
2020
as Stanley Hyman
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020
as Self
What do Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Patti LuPone and Alex Sharp have in common? They are but a few of the extraordinary actors who have studied und...

The Post
2017
as Abe Rosenthal
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 ...

The Shape of Water
2017
as Dr. Robert Hoffstetler
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 amphi...

Call Me by Your Name
2017
as Mr. Perlman
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's...

Miss Sloane
2016
as Pat Connors
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Arrival
2016
as Agent Halpern
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 ...

Doctor Strange
2016
as Dr. Nicodemus West
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to de...

Miles Ahead
2016
as Harper Hamilton
An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Trumbo
2015
as Edward G. Robinson
The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklist...

Steve Jobs
2015
as Andy Hertzfeld
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital...

Pawn Sacrifice
2015
as Paul Marshall
American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
Carvalho's Journey
2015
as Narrator
Carvalho's Journey is a feature length documentary about Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1897) a pioneering American Jewish artist and daguerreotypist bo...

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire
2014
as Self
A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

Cut Bank
2014
as Derby Milton
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But hi...

The 50 Year Argument
2014
as Narration
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review of Books, America’s leading journal of ideas for ...

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
2014
as Jerome Robbins (voice)
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 ch...

Blue Jasmine
2013
as Dr. Flicker
After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger...

Hitchcock
2012
as Lew Wasserman
Following his great success with "North by Northwest," director Alfred Hitchcock makes a daring choice for his next project: an adaptation of Robert B...

Lincoln
2012
as George Yeaman
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 p...

Seven Psychopaths
2012
as Tommy
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved...

Men in Black 3
2012
as Griffin
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 ...

Hugo
2011
as René Tabard
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 statio...

Goldstar, Ohio
2010
as The Interviewer
Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.

A Serious Man
2009
as Larry Gopnik
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....

Afterschool
2009
as Mr. Burke
A prep-school student accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.

Cold Souls
2009
as Hedge Fund Consultant
Paul is agonising over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya' and, paralysed by anxiety, stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-t...

Body of Lies
2008
as Ferris' Attorney
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, sc...

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008
as Edward Teller
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a national hero, the brilliant scientist who during WWII led the scientific team that created the atomic bomb. But after the...

The Key to Reserva
2007
as Louis Bernard
Finding an unfinished script written by Alfred Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese attempts to recreate it himself as Hitchcock would have.

Solidarity
2005
as Paweł
Set in 1982 communist Poland, a couple celebrates their wedding anniversary with their closest friends. But a simple accident creates an unexpected an...

The Grey Zone
2001
as Cohen
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excr...

The Invention of Love
2001
as Alfred William Pollard
An esoteric play portraying the life of poet A. E. Housman focusing specifically on his personal life and love for a college classmate.

The Hunley
1999
as Wicks
CSS Hunley tells the incredible true story of the crew of the manually propelled submarine CSS Hunley, during the siege of Charleston of 1864. It is a...

A Price Above Rubies
1998
as Young Hassid
About a young woman who is married to a devout Jew and the problems that trouble their marriage because of the woman wanting something more out of her...