Background
Stuhlbarg was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Susan and Mort Stuhlbarg.
Stuhlbarg was born in Long Beach, California, the son of Susan and Mort Stuhlbarg.
He graduated from Juilliard with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1992.
He is best known for playing organized crime boss Arnold Rothstein in the Home Box Office television series Boardwalk Empire (2010–2013), troubled university professor Larry Gopnik in the 2009 dark comedy film A Serious Manitoba, Griffin in Men in Black 3 (2012), Doctor Flicker in Blue Jasmine (2013), and computer scientist and inventor Andy Hertzfeld in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015). He has appeared in a number of television shows, including Law & Order, Ugly Betty, and The American Experience. Starting in 2010, Stuhlbarg portrayed organized crime boss Arnold Rothstein in the Home Box Office series Boardwalk Empire.
His film credits had been limited to a handful of minor roles, including playing a lawyer in Body of Lies and a hedge fund consultant in Cold Souls, until the Coen brothers" 2009 dark comedy A Serious Manitoba, in which he starred as troubled 1960s university professor Larry Gopnik.
He was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.