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Michael S. Stuhlbarg (born July 5, 1968) is a Californian theatre, film, and television actor.

This book is your ultimate resource for Michael Stuhlbarg. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Michael Stuhlbarg's Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Michael Stuhlbarg, A Serious Man, Afterschool, Arnold Rothstein, Blue Jasmine, Boardwalk Empire, Boardwalk Empire (season 1), Boardwalk Empire (season 2), Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor, Cold Souls, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play, Hitchcock (film), Hugo (film), Lew Wasserman, Lincoln (2012 film), London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009, Men in Black 3, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Seven Psychopaths, The Pillowman 113…and more pages!

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Contents

Articles Michael Stuhlbarg A Serious Man Afterschool Arnold Rothstein Blue Jasmine Boardwalk Empire Boardwalk Empire (season 1) Boardwalk Empire (season 2) Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Cold Souls Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Hitchcock (film) Hugo (film) Lew Wasserman Lincoln (2012 film) London Film Critics Circle Awards 2009 Men in Black 3 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Seven Psychopaths The Pillowman

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Michael Stuhlbarg

Born

Michael Stuhlbarg Michael S. Stuhlbarg July 5, 1968 Long Beach, California, U.S.

Alma mater

Occupation

Years active

The Juilliard School (BFA 1992)

Actor

1996–present

[1] [1][2] Michael S. Stuhlbarg(born July 5, 1968) is an American theatre, film, and television actor.

Early life [3] [4] Stuhlbarg was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Susan and Mort Stuhlbarg. He was raised in Reform [2] [5] Judaism. He trained at The Juilliard School in New York City, where he was a member of the Drama Division's [6] Group 21(1988–graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992.1992). Stuhlbarg

He also studied acting at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Vilnius Conservatory in Lithuania, the British American Drama Academy at Oxford, and the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain at the University of [7] London. He studied mime with Marcel Marceau at the World Centre.

Career Stuhlbarg became a theater actor appearing in several productions including award winning performances inOld Wicked Songsin 1996,Long Day's Journey into Nightin 1997 and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured [8] Actor in a Play forThe Pillowmanin 2005 (for which he also received his first Tony Award nomination). He has appeared in a number of television shows includingLaw & Order,Ugly BettyandThe American Experience. He currently plays organized crime boss Arnold Rothstein in the HBO seriesBoardwalk Empire.

His film credits had been limited to a handful of minor roles, including a lawyer in Ridley Scott'sBody of Liesand a [8] hedge fund consultant in Sophie Barthes'Cold Soulshis first lead role in the Coen brothers' 2009 dark, until comedyA Serious Man, as the troubled 1960s university professor Larry Gopnik for which he was a Golden [5] Globe-nominee.

Filmography

Year

1998

2001

2006

2006–2007

2006–2010

2008

Title

A Price Above Rubies

The Grey Zone

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

The American Experience

Law & Order

Role

Young Hassid

Cohen

Marcel Costas

Jerry

Various Roles

Timothy Pace

Television program Season 5, Episode 11: "Slither"

Television program 2 episodes

Documentary television program 4 episodes

Television program Season 18, Episode 15: "Bogeyman"

Notes

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2008

2009

2010–present

2011

2012

2013

Afterschool

Body of Lies

Cold Souls

A Serious Man

Ugly Betty

Boardwalk Empire

Hugo

Men in Black 3

Seven Psychopaths

Lincoln

Hitchcock

[9] Blue Jasmine

References

Mr. Burke

Ferris' Attorney

Hedge Fund Consultant

Larry Gopnik

Heinrich

Arnold Rothstein

Ren Tabard

Griffin

Tommy

George Yeaman

Lew Wasserman

Independent Spirit Awards - Robert Altman Award Santa Barbara International Film Festival - Virtuoso Award Satellite Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actor–Motion Picture Musical or Comedy Nominated—Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast Nominated—London Film Critics Circle Award for Actor of the Year Nominated—San Diego Film Critics Society Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble

Television program 1 episode

Television program 22 episodes Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series (2010, 2011)

[1] According to the State of California.California Birth Index, 1905–1995. Center for Health Statistics, California Department of Health Services, Sacramento, California. Searchable at http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/39461 [2] Wloszczyna, Susan (October 11, 2009). "Michael Stuhlbarg: Coen brothers get their 'Serious Man'" (http:/ /www.usatoday.com/life/ movies/news/2009-10-08-michael-stuhlbarg_N.htm). USA Today. . Retrieved December 16, 2009. [3] "Michael Stuhlbarg" (http://www2.broadway.com/buzz/michael-stuhlbarg/). Broadway.com. . Retrieved September 16, 2009. [4] http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/michael-stuhlbarg/bio/298785 [5] Grosz, Christy (September 13, 2009). "The Coens found Michael Stuhlbarg to be 'A Serious Man'" (http:/ /www.latimes.com/ entertainment/news/la-ca-stuhlbarg13-2009sep13,0,4584210.story). Los Angeles Times. . Retrieved September 14, 2009. [6] "Alumni News" (http://www.juilliard.edu/alumni/news/news_decades/2007-2008/0709/index.php). The Juilliard School. September 2007. . [7] "Michael Stuhlbarg" (http://business.highbeam.com/3907/article-1G1-55811284/michael-stuhlbarg).Back Stage. September 3, 1999. . [8] "Cast and Crew–Michael Stuhlbarg" (http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/a_serious_man/castncrew/ ?member=michael_stuhlbarg). FilmInFocus.com. . Retrieved September 14, 2009. [9] "Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Woody Allen's Blue Jasmine" (http:/ /www.sonypictures.com/corp/press_releases/2013/01_13/ 010813_woody.html). Sony Pictures. January 8, 2013. . Retrieved January 9, 2013.

Michael Stuhlbarg

External links a Michael Stuhlbarg (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0836121/) at the Internet Movie Database Michael Stuhlbarg (http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?ID=71597) at the Internet Broadway Database a Michael Stuhlbarg (http://www.allrovi.com/name/p272661) at AllRovi

A Serious Man

Theatrical release poster Directed byJoel Coen Ethan Coen

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Ethan Coen Joel Coen

Michael Stuhlbarg Richard Kind Sari Lennick Fred Melamed Aaron Wolff

Carter Burwell

Roger Deakins

Roderick Jaynes

Relativity Media StudioCanal Working Title Films Mike Zoss Productions

Focus Features

October 2, 2009

106 minutes

United States

English Hebrew Yiddish

$7 million

[1] $31,312,437

[2] A Serious Manwritten, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film starsis a 2009 dark comedy Michael Stuhlbarg as a Minnesota Jewish man whose life crumbles both professionally and personally, leading him to questions about his faith. The film attracted a positive critical response, including a Golden Globe nomination for Stuhlbarg, a place on both the American Film Institute's and National Board of Review's Top 10 Film Lists of 2009, and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Plot In a Polish shtetl in the early 20th century, a Jewish man tells his wife that he was helped on his way home by Traitle Groshkover, whom he has invited in for soup. She objects, saying Groshkover is dead, and that the visitor must be a dybbuk. Groshkover (Fyvush Finkel) arrives and laughs off the accusation, but she plunges an icepick into his chest. [3] Bleeding, he exits into the snowy night. [4] In Minnesota in 1967, Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a professor of physics whose wife, Judith (Sari Lennick), abruptly informs him that she needs aget(a Jewish divorce document) so she can marry widower Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed). Three other people live with Larry and Judith. Their son Danny (Aaron Wolff) owes twenty dollars for marijuana to an intimidating Hebrew school classmate, but the bill is hidden in a transistor radio since confiscated by his teacher. Daughter Sarah is always doing her hair. Larry's brother, Arthur (Richard Kind), sleeps on the couch and spends his free time filling a notebook with "a probability map of the universe", a nonsensical and excessively detailed set of numerological writings that suggests he has some type of undiagnosed schizophrenia. Larry faces an impending vote on his application for tenure, and his department head (Ari Hoptman) lets slip that anonymous letters have urged the committee to deny him. Clive Park, a student worried about losing his scholarship, meets with Larry in his office to argue he should not fail the class. After he leaves, Larry finds an envelope stuffed with cash. When Larry attempts to return it, Clive's father comes to his house to threaten to sue Larry either for defamation if Larry accuses Clive of bribery, or for keeping the money if he does not give him a passing grade. At the insistence of Judith and Sy, Larry and Arthur move into a nearby motel. Judith has emptied the couple's bank accounts, leaving Larry penniless, so he enlists the services of a sympathetic divorce attorney (Adam Arkin). Larry learns Arthur faces charges of solicitation and sodomy, despite his previous attendance at "mixers." To cope with his streak of unfortunate circumstances, Larry turns to his Jewish faith. The two rabbis he consults are by turns obtuse, oblivious and obscure, and his synagogue's senior rabbi is never available. Larry's mental state reaches a breaking point when he and Sy are involved in seemingly simultaneous, but separate, car crashes. Larry is unharmed, but Sy is killed. At Judith's insistence, Larry pays for Sy's funeral. Larry is proud and moved by Danny's bar mitzvah, unaware of his son's distractions from nerves and marijuana. During the service, Judith apologizes to Larry for all the recent trouble and informs him that Sy liked him so much that he even wrote letters to the tenure committee. Danny meets with the senior rabbi in his office, where the old man –who has had Danny's transistor radio in his desk–quotes almost verbatim from the Jefferson Airplane song "Somebody To Love". He returns the radio and counsels Danny to "be a good boy." Larry's department head compliments him on Danny's bar mitzvah and hints that he will win tenure. Upon receiving the bill for Arthur's criminal lawyer, Larry decides to pass Clive, whereupon his doctor calls, asking to see him immediately about the results of a chest X-ray. At the same moment, Danny's teacher struggles to open the emergency shelter as a massive tornado bears down on the school.

Cast and characters a Michael Stuhlbarg as Lawrence "Larry" Gopnik; an actor relatively unknown to film audiences, Stuhlbarg was cast on the strength of his theatrical work in New York. He initially auditioned for the prologue but was called [3] back to read for the parts of Arthur and Larry, eventually being cast in the lead role. Richard Kind as Arthur Gopnik Sari Lennick as Judith Gopnik; Lennick was inspired by the confidence the Coens had in her; they consulted her [3] on the character details and allowed her to make the character her own. Fred Melamed as Sy Ableman Aaron Wolff as Danny Gopnik Jessica McManus as Sarah Gopnik

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aAlan Mandell as Rabbi Marshak a Adam Arkin as Don Milgram a George Wyner as Rabbi Nachtner a Amy Landecker as Mrs. Vivienne Samsky; in an interview with actress Landecker, she said that the first name of Mrs. Samsky is in fact Vivienne and was based on a real neighbor of the Coen brothers aKatherine Borowitz as Mimi Nudell aAllen Lewis Rickman as Velvel aYelena Shmulenson as Dora a Fyvush Finkel as Traitle Groshkover a Simon Helberg as Rabbi Scott Ginsler aAndrew S. Lentz as Mark Sallerson aJack Swiler as Howard Altar (boy on bus) aTim Harlan-Marks as Hebrew school bus driver aBenjy Portnoe as Ronnie Nudell aBrent Braunschweig as Mitch Brandt aAri Hoptman as Arlen Finkle a Michael Lerner as Solomon Schlutz aDavid Kang as Clive a Steve Park as Clive's father aPeter Breitmayer as Mr. Brandt Open auditions for the roles of Danny and Sarah were held on May 4, 2008, at the Sabes Jewish Community Center in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, one of the scheduled shooting locations for the film. Open auditions for the role of [3][5] Sarah were also held in June 2008 in Chicago, Illinois.

Production Considerable attention was paid to the setting; it was important to the Coens to find a neighborhood of original-looking suburban rambler homes as they would have appeared in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, in the late [6] 1960s. Locations were scouted in nearby communities Edina, Richfield, Brooklyn Center, and Hopkins before a [7] suitable location was found in Bloomington. The look of the film is partly based on the Brad Zellar bookSuburban [8] World: The Norling Photographs, a collection of photographs of Bloomington in the 1950s and 60s. Longtime collaborator Roger Deakins rejoined the Coen brothers as cinematographer, following his absence from [9] Burn After Reading. This was his tenth film with the Coen brothers. Costume designer Mary Zophres returned for [9] her ninth collaboration with the directors. The "folk tale" that serves as the prologue was written by the Coen brothers. They claim the story has no function [3] except to set the proper tone for what follows. Roger Ebert suggests that its married couple may have brought a [10] curse on Larry by inviting the dybbuk (Traitle Groshkover) across their threshold. A portrait of Groshkover is glimpsed on the wall inside Rabbi Marshak's office later in the film. Location filming began on September 8, 2008, in Minnesota. An office scene was shot at Normandale Community College in Bloomington. The film also used a set built in the school's library, as well as small sections of the second floor science building hallway. The synagogue is the B'nai Emet Synagogue in St. Louis Park. The Coen brothers [11][12] also shot some scenes in St. Olaf College's old science building because of its similar period architecture. Scenes were also shot at the Minneapolis legal offices of Meshbesher & Spence, the name of whose founder and [13] president, Ronald I. Meshbesher, is mentioned as the criminal lawyer recommended to Larry in the film. Filming [14] wrapped on November 6, 2008, after 44 days, ahead of schedule and within budget. Anachronisms are evident in the film with references to two albums, Carlos Santana'sAbraxasand Creedence Clearwater Revival'sCosmo's Factory, both of which were released in 1970.

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The ending credits contain an Easter egg: "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture."

Soundtrack The film's original music was composed by Carter Burwell (who has composed the music for all the Coens' movies except O Brother, Where Art Thou?). The soundtrack included several songs from the Jefferson Airplane album Surrealistic Pillow, including "Somebody to Love," "Today," "Comin' Back to Me," and "3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds." The soundtrack also featured "Machine Gun" from Band of Gypsys' live albumBand of Gypsys, and some pieces of Yiddish music including Mark Warshawsky's "Dem Milner's Treren" performed by Sidor Belarsky.

Release The film had a limited release on October 2, 2009, in the United States. It premiered at the Toronto International [15] [16] Film Festival on September 12, 2009. A Serious Manwas released on DVD and Blu-ray in North America on February 9, 2010.

Box office performance

Film

A Serious Man

Release date

United States

October 2009

United States

Box office revenue

$9,228,768

International Worldwide

$22,201,566

$31,430,334

Box office ranking

All time United States

#3,818

[1] As of February 10, 2010, it has had worldwide gross earnings of $31,312,437

Critical reception

Film

A Serious Man

Rotten Tomatoes

[19] 89% (194 reviews)

Metacritic

[20] 79/100 (35 reviews)

All time worldwide

Unknown

Entertainment Weekly

[21] A-

Budget

Reference

[17] $7,000,000

[18]

It has received mostly positive reviews from critics, with an aggregate score of 89% from Rotten Tomatoes, based on [22] 194 reviews. Roger Ebert, of theChicago Sun-Times, rated the film four out of four stars, feeling that it "bears [10] every mark of a labor of love," andVariety's Todd McCarthy commented that "the Coens' filmmaking skills are [23] sharply attentive," and thatA Serious Manis "the kind of picture you get to make after you've won an Oscar". Claudia Puig ofUSA Todaywrites, "A Serious Manis a wonderfully odd, bleakly comic and thoroughly engrossing [24] film. Underlying the grim humor are serious questions about faith, family, mortality and misfortune."Timecritic [25] Richard Corliss describes it as "disquieting" and "haunting." Christy Lemire called it "the Coens' most thoughtful [26] and personal film" and gave it three-and-a-half stars out of four.

TheSt. Petersburg Times's Steve Persall wrote that the main character would remind Bible readers of the Book of [27] Job despite some important differences. The Coens themselves have allowed that, while there may be allusions to Job, the "germ" of the story was a rabbi from their adolescence, a "mysterious figure" who had a private conversation [28] with each student at the conclusion of their religious education. TheWall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern disliked what he saw as misanthropy in the film, saying that "...their caricatures range from dislikable through [29] despicable, with not a smidgeon of humanity to redeem them." David Denby fromThe New Yorkerenjoyed the look and feel of the film, but found fault with the script and characterization: "A Serious Man, likeBurn After Reading, is in their bleak, black, belittling mode, and it's hell to sit through... As a piece of movie-making craft,A [30] Serious Manis fascinating; in every other way, it's intolerable."

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Awards

Stuhlbarg was awarded the Chaplin Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and nominated for Best Actor in the 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Stuhlbarg, Kind, Melamed and Lennick were nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Performance by an Ensemble Cast. Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, casting directors Ellen Chenoweth and Rachel Tenner, along with actors Kind, Lennick, Melamed, Stuhlbarg, Wolff and McManus were awarded the Robert Altman Spirit Award by Film Independent for Excellence in Collaborative Cinematic Achievement by Directors, Casting Directors and an Ensemble Cast. Deakins received the Best Cinematography awards at both the 2009 Hollywood Awards and the 2009 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, as well as the Nikola Tesla Award at the Satellite Awards and the Best Cinematography award at the Independent Spirit Awards.A Serious Manwas nominated for an MPSE Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing: Dialogue and ADR in a Feature Film.

The Coen brothers were awarded Best Original Screenplay at the 2009 National Board of Review Awards and Best Original Screenplay from Richard Kind holds the Robert Altman Award the National Society of Film Critics Awards 2009, and have been given to the film at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay and the BAFTA for Best Original Screenplay.A Serious Manwas nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay in the Broadcast Film Critics Association's 15th Annual Critics' Choice Awards, and by the Boston Society of Film Critics, Best Picture by the Chicago Film Critics Association. The film was listed as one of the ten best films of 2009 by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, the American Film Institute, the Satellite Awards and the Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards.

A Serious Manwas nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen) and Best Picture at the 82nd Academy Awards. BBC News called it "one of the less talked about nominees" for Best Picture; they also noted that [31] lead actor Stuhlbarg received his invitation to the ceremony at the last minute.

References [1] "A Serious Man" (http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=seriousman.htm). Box Office Mojo. Archived (http://web.archive.org/web/ 20100117132953/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=seriousman.htm) from the original on January 17, 2010. . Retrieved February 10, 2010. [2] Booker, M. Keith (2011) (in English).Historical Dictionary of American Cinema(http://books.google.co.uk/ books?id=Y04MQEgHbZsC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false).ScarecrowPress.pp.b75.. [3] yanayak (August 15, 2009). "A Serious Man Production Notes" (http:/ /www.oscars.org/press/presskits/nominations/pdf/serious_man. pdf).Film in FocusFo(teiaserup:)suctaeFetrieved.b9..Rr,1200Dcemeebughoaht"9.tWeflesnoc-tilelttorywoutainedsapporrpdlbena introduction for this movie. Since we didn’t know any suitable Yiddish folk tales, we made one up." [4] "Interview: Joel and Ethan Coen On A Serious Man" (http:/ /www.cinemablend.com/new/ Interview-Joel-And-Ethan-Coen-On-A-Serious-Man-15022. html). cinemablend.com. . Retrieved January 28, 2010. [5] "Coens cast about to fill three roles in 'A Serious Man'" (http:/ /www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/18180979.html).Minneapolis Star Tribune. April 25, 2008. . Retrieved February 18, 2010. [6] Campbell, Tim (September 28, 2007). "Coen brothers to get 'Serious' in Minnesota" (http:/ /www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/ 11525326.html). Star Tribune. Archived (http://web.archive.org/web/20091103112250/http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/ movies/11525326.html) from the original on November 3, 2009. . Retrieved November 22, 2009. [7] Covert, Colin (September 6, 2008). "In Twin Cities, Coen brothers shoot from heart" (http:/ /www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/ 27957494.html). Star Tribune. . Retrieved November 22, 2009.