Stanley Tucci has long had plenty of fans.
Across nearly three decades on screen, he’s built a reputation as one of Hollywood’s most compelling presences. Then, during lockdown, he somehow made mixing a negroni look so effortlessly stylish that the internet couldn’t get enough.
If anything, his appeal seems to deepen with time.
Away from the roles and the food-world fascination is a grounded, unexpectedly tender love story — one that began at George Clooney’s place in Lake Como and led Tucci to a second chapter he didn’t believe was waiting for him.
Because he’d already lived through a devastating loss.
Tucci’s first wife, Kathryn Spath, died from cancer in 2009 after 14 years of marriage. He was left raising their three children, and he has said he’d largely stopped imagining he would ever marry again.
Then came Felicity Blunt — a literary agent, Emily Blunt’s sister, and the person Tucci has described as the woman who ‘re-wired his brain.’
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tucci explained that he wasn’t convinced he’d remarry or expand his family — until life surprised him.
“When I met her, it just sort of made sense, even though there is this age gap of 21 years. And obviously, I knew her family , or I knew her sister was one of my best friends. And we just hit it off.”
The two initially met at The Devil Wears Prada premiere in 2006. Later, they were properly reintroduced at Emily Blunt’s wedding to John Krasinski in 2010 — hosted, in fittingly glamorous fashion, at Clooney’s Lake Como home.
They married in 2012 and went on to have two children together: a son born in 2015 and a daughter in 2018. Their household also includes Tucci’s three children from his first marriage.
Asked how their relationship has thrived despite a 21-year age gap, Tucci put it simply.
“We had a lot in common, even though we had nothing in common. And it just sort of stuck.”
He also spoke warmly about what Blunt brought not just to him, but to his family as a whole.
“She changed my life in the sense that she gave me a sense of security. She gave my children a sense of security. And she’s fun. Like, she’s fun to hang out with.”
He added that her outlook and intellect continue to impress him.
“She’s incredibly positive, which I am not always. Her mind is incredible. Her capacity to take in information, not just from a book, but from the world and process it, and turn it into something else is just extraordinary. “She’s pretty cool.”