Michael Stuhlbarg

Michael Stuhlbarg

1968-07-05 Long Beach, California, USA 43 Credits

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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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Judy

Judy

2026

Acting

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

After the Hunt

2025

as Frederik Olsson

Acting

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

The Amateur

2025

as Schiller

7.0
Acting

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

The Instigators

2024

as Mr. Besegai

6.2
Acting

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

Bones and All

2022

as Jake

7.0
Acting

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

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2022

as Dr. Nic West

7.3
Acting

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

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

2021

as Self - Narrator (voice)

6.4
Acting

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

American Oz

2021

as L. Frank Baum (voice)

8.0
Acting

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

Shirley

2020

as Stanley Hyman

6.1
Acting

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

Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy

2020

as Self

Acting

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

The Post

2017

as Abe Rosenthal

7.0
Acting

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

The Shape of Water

2017

as Dr. Robert Hoffstetler

7.2
Acting

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

Call Me by Your Name

2017

as Mr. Perlman

8.1
Acting

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

Miss Sloane

2016

as Pat Connors

7.4
Acting

An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.

Arrival

Arrival

2016

as Agent Halpern

7.6
Acting

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

Doctor Strange

2016

as Dr. Nicodemus West

7.4
Acting

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

Miles Ahead

2016

as Harper Hamilton

6.4
Acting

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Trumbo

Trumbo

2015

as Edward G. Robinson

7.2
Acting

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

Steve Jobs

2015

as Andy Hertzfeld

6.8
Acting

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

Pawn Sacrifice

2015

as Paul Marshall

6.7
Acting

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

Carvalho's Journey

2015

as Narrator

Acting

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

The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire

2014

as Self

Acting

A behind the scenes look at the series as a whole, interviews with cast, crew and creators on the whole journey.

Cut Bank

Cut Bank

2014

as Derby Milton

5.7
Acting

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

The 50 Year Argument

2014

as Narration

6.6
Acting

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

Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq

2014

as Jerome Robbins (voice)

6.4
Acting

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

Blue Jasmine

2013

as Dr. Flicker

7.0
Acting

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

Hitchcock

2012

as Lew Wasserman

6.6
Acting

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

Lincoln

2012

as George Yeaman

6.9
Acting

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

Seven Psychopaths

2012

as Tommy

6.8
Acting

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

Men in Black 3

2012

as Griffin

6.5
Acting

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

Hugo

2011

as René Tabard

7.2
Acting

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

Goldstar, Ohio

2010

as The Interviewer

Acting

Four families and a chief of police recount the day marine casualty officers came to their respective small towns in Ohio.

A Serious Man

A Serious Man

2009

as Larry Gopnik

6.7
Acting

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

Afterschool

2009

as Mr. Burke

5.4
Acting

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

Cold Souls

Cold Souls

2009

as Hedge Fund Consultant

6.0
Acting

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

Body of Lies

2008

as Ferris' Attorney

6.6
Acting

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

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

2008

as Edward Teller

5.9
Acting

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

The Key to Reserva

2007

as Louis Bernard

7.2
Acting

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

Solidarity

Solidarity

2005

as Paweł

Acting

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

The Grey Zone

2001

as Cohen

6.6
Acting

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

The Invention of Love

2001

as Alfred William Pollard

Acting

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

The Hunley

1999

as Wicks

6.1
Acting

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

A Price Above Rubies

1998

as Young Hassid

5.4
Acting

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...