At a Glance
- Stanley Tucci is father to five children: twins Isabel and Nicolo (26), Camilla (21), Matteo (10), and Emilia (7)
- He shares the three eldest with late wife Kate Tucci and the two youngest with wife Felicity Blunt
- The actor keeps his kids out of the spotlight but shares parenting stories in interviews
- Why it matters: Shows how the star balances fame with fierce family privacy
Stanley Tucci’s life off-screen centers on a bustling household of five children, two marriages, and the daily rituals that bind them together.
The Devil Wears Prada star became a father first with late wife Kate Tucci, welcoming twins Isabel Concetta and Nicolo Robert on January 21, 2000, in New York City. Daughter Camilla arrived in 2002. After Kate’s death from breast cancer in 2009, Tucci married Felicity Blunt in October 2012, and the couple added Matteo Oliver in 2015 and Emilia Giovanna in 2018.
The Early Years with Kate
Tucci has never minimized the challenge Felicity faced joining a family still grieving.
“It is not easy to find somebody who is going to take on three teenagers and a widower,” he told The Guardian in 2017. “That’s a lot. But she was willing to take on that challenge. She cares for the kids as if they are her own, and it is a tough role, being a step-parent.”
The twins, now 26, have stayed largely out of public view. Nicolo tested the acting waters once, playing Max in a 2019 episode of the Richard Gere mini-series MotherFatherSon. Otherwise, the siblings have avoided the spotlight, appearing only occasionally-most notably at the 2015 Audi Polo Challenge alongside Camilla, their father, and both Blunt sisters.
Tucci’s memories of the trio’s childhood revolve around humor. “I do joke around with my kids … We laugh a lot,” he told Reuters in 2010. “They’re incredible. And they’re all really funny. Thank God.”
He added a parental reality check: “My kids don’t really like to watch me in movies. They just want me to be me.”
Explaining the Dark Roles
When filming The Lovely Bones in 2009, Tucci brought the children to set, fully made up as serial-killer George Harvey.
“They saw me dressed up as Mr. Harvey,” he recalled to the San Diego Union-Tribune. “They were like, ‘Oooo. That’s really disgusting.'” His explanation was blunt: “I just say, ‘And then the girl dies and I’m the person who kills her.’ They’ll say, ‘Why do you kill her, Dad?’ and I’ll say, ‘Because he’s a very sick person. Okay, let’s go eat.'”
Camilla, only seven when her mother died, once scolded him for playing the villain in Kit Kittredge. “My youngest daughter got really mad at me,” he remembered.
Round Two of Fatherhood
Matteo’s arrival in January 2015 marked Tucci’s fourth time navigating midnight feedings. The actor, then in his mid-50s, joked to News Of Los Angeles, “I believe he is mine. We are all thrilled to welcome him to this cold, cruel world … We are all thrilled that he is here and healthy.”
Parenting a toddler while older kids launched careers required energy. “Fatherhood [this time around] with our young son is great, although it is a little tougher when bending down to pick him up,” he admitted to The Guardian. “You’re like, ‘oh, f—!’ That was quite different 17 years ago! But you know where to put your energy now, whereas when you were younger you didn’t. These days I am much calmer.”
One constant across both marriages is the family dinner. “Bringing up my own kids, with my wife Kate, we sat down to dinner every night together,” he said. “Now, my [second] wife, Felicity Blunt, and I continue to do that with the kids and our 2-year-old son, Matteo. Food has become a kind of obsession with me, but it is more than that, it is another limb or organ, it is part of who I am.”
He calls the nightly ritual “vital … nothing is more bonding or more healing.”
The Surprise Accent
Matteo’s British-tinged English continues to baffle his American father. Appearing on The Graham Norton Show in May 2020, Tucci relayed an anecdote: the four-year-old lost a toy and exclaimed, “I mean … It can’t just have vanished.”
“We don’t know why he’s so posh,” Tucci laughed. “My wife isn’t really posh, she speaks eloquently. I just don’t get it.”
Completing the Crew
Daughter Emilia arrived on April 19, 2018, giving Matteo a sister and Tucci a fifth round of diaper duty. The actor’s wish for her was simple: “Hopefully she will have the looks and brains of her mother and one of my better personalities,” he quipped to News Of Los Angeles.
During the U.K. lockdown that began in March 2020, the Tucci-Blunt household swelled to seven when a friend of one of the older children stayed after flights were grounded. Writing for The Atlantic, Tucci described “cramming all these people with differing personalities, ages, needs, wants, etc. in a house for six weeks.”
The verdict? “For the most part, things have been going very well, meaning no one has murdered anyone yet, although I am sure one of them is plotting my demise as I type this.”
Key Takeaways
- Five children, two eras: Tucci’s parenting spans from teenagers in 2000 to a second round of toddlers in his 50s
- Privacy is policy: Despite social-media fame for cooking, the actor keeps family photos offline
- Tradition matters: Nightly dinners and shared meals remain the family anchor across both marriages
