PAUL GIAMATTI (Stan Beals) has established himself as one of the most versatile actors of his generation with a diverse roster of finely etched, award-winning and critically acclaimed performances. He recently earned Academy and Golden Globe Award nominations, and won a Screen Actors Guild Award and Broadcast Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Ron Howard’s Cinderella Man. Giamatti was also honored for his performance in Alexander Payne’s award-winning film Sideways with a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, an Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor.
This summer, Giamatti stars in M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water, with Bryce Dallas Howard, and also stars opposite Edward Norton and Jessica Biel in The Illusionist, directed by Neil Burger. He is currently in production on The Nanny Diaries, an adaptation of the best-selling novel, directed by the team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
Later this year, Giamatti begins the David Dobkin holiday film Fred Claus with Vince Vaughn and Kevin Spacey. Most recently, he wrapped production on the action film Shoot ‘Em Up, written and directed by Michael Davis. In 2007 will headline the voice cast of Rob Zombie Presents the Haunted World of El Superbeasto as the villain, Dr. Satan. The 2D animated comedy, based on the Spookshow International comic book The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, created by Zombie, follows the exploits of a washed-up Mexican wrestler in the mythic world of Monsterland.
Giamatti first captured recognition in Betty Thomas’ hit comedy Private Parts. His extensive list of film credits also includes Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon; Julian Goldberger’s The Hawk is Dying; Tim Robbins’ The Cradle Will Rock; F. Gary Gray’s The Negotiator; Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan; Peter Weir’s The Truman Show; Mike Newell’s Donnie Brasco; Todd Solondz’ Storytelling; Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes; Duets, opposite Gwyneth Paltrow; John Woo’s Paycheck; James Foley’s Confidence; the animated film Robots; and Big Momma’s House, co-starring Martin Lawrence.
In 2004, Giamatti garnered outstanding reviews and commendations, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination and the National Board of Review’s Award for Breakthrough performance of the Year, for his portrayal of Harvey Pekar in Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s American Splendor.
Also an accomplished stage actor, Giamatti received a Drama Desk nomination for Best Supporting Actor as Jimmy Tomorrow in Kevin Spacey’s Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh. His other Broadway credits include The Three Sisters, directed by Scott Elliot; Racing Demon, directed by Richard Eyre; and Arcadia, directed by Trevor Nunn. Off-Broadway, he appeared in the ensemble cast of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Al Pacino.
On television, Giamatti appeared in The Pentagon Papers, with James Spader; HBO’s Winchell, opposite Stanley Tucci; and Jane Anderson’s If These Walls Could Talk 2.
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