Maria Tucci
Biography
Tucci made her Broadway debut in 1963, in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. She has fourteen Broadway credits. Principal roles include Rose Delle Rose opposite Maureen Stapleton in the 1966 production of The Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams. In 1967, she starred as Alexandra Giddens in a revival of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, with Anne Bancroft as her mother. In 1969, she was a replacement for Jane Alexander in The Great White Hope. In 1988, she starred in a revival of The Night of the Iguana as Hannah Jelkes. In 2009, she appeared in the production of Mary Stuart as Hanna.
Tucci began appearing in film in 1969. Her first credits were in Robert Frank's Me and My Brother and a CBS Playhouse production titled Shadow Game. She played Lisa in Sidney Lumet's 1983 film Daniel. In Gus Van Sant's 1995 film To Die For she portrayed Angela Maretto.
She was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play in 1967 for her performance in The Rose Tattoo. She played Koula in the 2015 mini-series The Slap. She also won an OBIE award for her performance as Phaedo in "Talk" by Carl Hancock Rux at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.
Filmography

Marcella
2025
as Marcella Hazan (voice)

Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
2022
as Self

Today's Man
2006
as Self

To Die For
1995
as Angela Maretto

Sweet Nothing
1995
as Monika's Mother
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989
as Self

Touch and Go
1986
as Dee Dee

Daniel
1983
as Lise Lewin

Enormous Changes at the Last Minute
1983
as Alexandra
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The Land of Hope
1976
as Lea Gianni

Beyond the Horizon
1975
as Ruth Atkins

Shadow Game
1969
as Carmen

Me and My Brother
1969