Sebastian Stan

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Sebastian Stan (born August 13, 1982) is a Romania-born American actor. Known for his work in both blockbuster and independent films, his accolades include a Golden Globe Award and a Silver Bear, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Stan started his career appearing in various films and stage productions during the late 1990s and early 2000s, before gaining early attention by playing Carter Baizen in the CW drama series Gossip Girl (2007–2010) and the Mad Hatter in Once Upon a Time (2012). Global stardom came from his portrayal of Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise, beginning with the film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and serving as a lead actor in the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and the film Thunderbolts* (2025). On Broadway, Stan has appeared in the Eric Bogosian play Talk Radio (2007) and starred in the William Inge play Picnic (2013).

Stan concurrently appeared in a number of successful films, including supporting roles in The Martian (2015), and starring roles in I, Tonya (2017) and Fresh (2022). For his portrayal of Tommy Lee in the Hulu docudrama miniseries Pam & Tommy (2022), he earned a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In 2024, Stan received praise for playing a man with neurofibromatosis in the comic thriller A Different Man and young Donald Trump in the biographical drama The Apprentice, earning Silver Bear and Golden Globe Awards for the former and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the latter.

Early life and education

Stan was born August 13, 1982,[1][2] in Constanța, then in the Romanian SR. He was named by his pianist mother after the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.[3] His parents divorced when he was two years old. When he was eight, he and his mother, Georgeta Orlovschi,[4][5][6] moved to Vienna, Austria, where she was employed as a pianist, following the Revolutions of 1989.[7] Four years later, they moved to Rockland County, New York, after his mother married the headmaster of a school in the United States.[8] He was raised in the Romanian Orthodox Church.[9]

During Stan's years at the Rockland school, he starred in productions including Harvey, Cyrano de Bergerac, Little Shop of Horrors, Over Here!, and West Side Story. He also attended the Stagedoor Manor summer camp, where he was cast in many camp productions. It was then that he decided to take acting seriously and began applying to acting programs at several universities. He attended Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts, which enabled him to spend a year abroad studying acting at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. He graduated from Rutgers in 2005. Stan became a United States citizen in 2002.[10][11]

Career

1994–2013: Film debut and Broadway roles

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Stan with Liev Schreiber at the 2007 Drama League Awards

After an appearance in the 1994 film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance, Stan's career began in earnest in 2003 with a role on Law & Order. This was followed by several film appearances, including Tony n' Tina's Wedding, The Architect, and The Covenant (both 2006), followed by a recurring role on Gossip Girl as Carter Baizen, beginning in 2007. Stan then had a lead role in the 2009 series Kings as Jack Benjamin. In 2010, he appeared in Darren Aronofsky's ballet thriller Black Swan and played the role of antagonist Blaine in the comedy Hot Tub Time Machine.[12] In 2011, he portrayed Bucky Barnes in the film Captain America: The First Avenger, which was based on the Marvel Comics character. This was his first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, (MCU); it was not part of the nine-picture contract he later secured with Marvel Studios.[13] In a 2021 interview, Stan recalled that about a month after the Captain America film was released, he was struggling to pay his rent.[14]

In 2012, Stan starred in the thriller Gone and the supernatural horror film The Apparition; he also began a recurring role in the TV series Once Upon a Time as the Mad Hatter. A review by The A.V. Club described his work in "Hat Trick", his premiere episode in that series, as "excellent" and placed the episode in their list of the 30 best episodes of 2012 from the series that did not make their top list.[15] It was initially reported the role would be recast for the spin-off series Once Upon a Time in Wonderland due to Stan's commitment to the MCU,[16] but Edward Kitsis revealed that, in response to fan backlash and out of respect for Stan's performance, the character would not be recast and the series would instead proceed without the character.[17] The same year, he also appeared in the USA Network miniseries Political Animals as the troubled gay son of a former First Lady,[18] which earned him a nomination for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie/Miniseries. In 2013, Stan played Hal Carter in the Roundabout Theater Company's production of William Inge's Picnic at the American Airlines Theater in New York.[19]

2014–2019: MCU films and I, Tonya

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Stan at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

In Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Stan reprised his role as Bucky Barnes, with his character now re-named Winter Soldier; this was the first film of his nine-film contract.[20] In 2015, he played Joshua Brummel in Ricki and the Flash; he also co-starred in The Martian as NASA scientist Dr. Chris Beck and in The Bronze as Lance Tucker.[21] Stan next reprised his role as the Winter Soldier in Ant-Man (cameo appearance) (2015) and Captain America: Civil War (2016). In 2017, Stan co-starred as NASCAR driver Dayton White in Steven Soderbergh's caper comedy, Logan Lucky,[22] and starred in the drama I'm Not Here.[23] Also that year he co-starred in Craig Gillespie's biopic I, Tonya portraying Jeff Gillooly alongside Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding.[24]

In 2018, Stan again portrayed Winter Soldier in both Black Panther (as an uncredited cameo), and Avengers: Infinity War.[25] He then appeared opposite Nicole Kidman in the thriller film Destroyer (2018).[26] Stan portrayed Charles Blackwood in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a film adaptation of Shirley Jackson's novel of the same name.[27] Stan's first film of 2019 was Avengers: Endgame, released in April, in which he reprised his role as Winter Soldier. His second film that year, Endings, Beginnings, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.[28]

Stan starred as protagonist Scott Huffman in the Vietnam War film drama, The Last Full Measure (released in January 2020).[29] In addition, Stan appeared in Monday and The Chain.[30] In February 2019, he replaced his MCU co-star Chris Evans in the southern gothic crime drama film The Devil All the Time, which premiered on Netflix in 2020.[31] In April 2019, Disney confirmed that they would be releasing a Marvel television series starring Stan and Anthony Mackie, called The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, which began airing on Disney+ on March 19, 2021,[32][33] and ran through April 23, 2021. In May 2019, Stan joined the cast of the spy thriller, The 355 (released in 2022).[34][35]

2020–present: Critical recognition

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Martin Donovan, Maria Bakalova, Ali Abbasi, Stan and Jeremy Strong at the NYC premiere of The Apprentice (2024)

Stan next starred as Tommy Lee opposite Lily James as Pamela Anderson in Hulu's biographical miniseries Pam & Tommy (2022) centering around their personal sex tape which was stolen in 1995.[36] Lucy Mangan of The Guardian described their performances as "astonishing" adding, "They each achieve the feat of uncannily resembling – aesthetically, vocally, and in every mannerism – the real-life people, without descending into mimicry."[37] For his performance he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film. He also starred in the Hulu thriller film Fresh (2022) opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones.[38] Sophie Butcher of Empire praised their chemistry adding, "Stan in particular is having a ball, unleashing the kind of unhinged energy we’ve seen most recently from him in Pam & Tommy".[39]

In 2023, Stan starred alongside Julianne Moore in Apple TV+ and A24's thriller, Sharper.[40] The following year, he won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for playing a man with neurofibromatosis in A Different Man, and portrayed a young Donald Trump in The Apprentice.[41] For both roles, he received simultaneous Golden Globe nominations for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, respectively. He won for A Different Man.[42] For The Apprentice he was nominated for the Academy and BAFTA Award for Best Actor.[43] In June 2025, Stan was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[44]

Stan reprised the role of Bucky Barnes twice in 2025, in Captain America: Brave New World and Thunderbolts*.[45] He will also play the character in Avengers: Doomsday.[46]

Acting credits

Film

Year Title Role Note Ref.
1994 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance Kid in Subway
2004 Tony n' Tina's Wedding Johnny Nunzio
2005 Red Doors Simon
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Martin Waters
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2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". Leo Reilly
2008 Rachel Getting Married Walter
2009 Spread Harry
2010 Hot Tub Time Machine Blaine
Black Swan Andrew / Suitor
2011 Captain America: The First Avenger James "Bucky" Barnes [47]
2012 Gone Billy
Script error: No such module "Sort". Ben Curtis
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier James "Bucky" Barnes /
Winter Soldier 		[48]
2015 Ant-Man Uncredited cameo; post-credits scene [49]
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Ricki and the Flash Joshua Brummel [50]
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2016 Captain America: Civil War James "Bucky" Barnes /
Winter Soldier 		[51]
2017 Logan Lucky Dayton White [52]
I, Tonya Jeff Gillooly [53]
I'm Not Here Steve [54]
2018 Destroyer Det. Chris [55]
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Charles Blackwood [56]
Black Panther James "Bucky" Barnes /
White Wolf 		Uncredited cameo; post-credits scene [57]
Avengers: Infinity War [58]
2019 Avengers: Endgame
Endings, Beginnings Frank
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2020 Script error: No such module "Sort". Lee Bodecker [60]
Monday Mickey [61]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort". Nick Fowler [62]
Fresh Steve [63]
2023 Sharper Max [64]
Ghosted God
Dumb Money Vlad Tenev [65]
2024 A Different Man Edward Lemuel / Guy Moratz Also executive producer [66]
The Apprentice Donald Trump [67]
2025 Captain America: Brave New World James "Bucky" Barnes Uncredited cameo [68]
Thunderbolts* [69]
2026 Template:Pending film Filming [70]
TBA Template:Pending film TBA Post-production [71]

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Television

Year Title Role Notes
2003 Law & Order Justin Capshaw Episode: "Sheltered"
2007–2010 Gossip Girl Carter Baizen 11 episodes
2009 Kings Jack Benjamin Main role; 13 episodes
2012 Once Upon a Time Jefferson / The Mad Hatter 6 episodes
Political Animals T.J. Hammond Main role; 6 episodes
Labyrinth Will Franklyn Main role; 2 episodes
2017 I'm Dying Up Here Clay Appuzzo Episode: "Pilot"
2021 The Falcon and the Winter Soldier James "Bucky" Barnes /
White Wolf / Winter Soldier 		Main role; 6 episodes
Marvel Studios: Assembled Himself Episode: "The Making of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier"[72]
2021–2024 What If...? James "Bucky" Barnes / Winter Soldier (voice) 7 episodes[73]
2022 Pam & Tommy Tommy Lee Main role; 8 episodes[74]
2023 Bupkis Himself Episode: "ISO"

Theatre

Year Title[75] Role Playwright Theatre Ref.
2007 Talk Radio Kent Eric Bogosian Longacre Theatre, Broadway [76]
2013 Picnic Hal Carter William Inge American Airlines Theatre, Broadway [77]

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2011 Captain America: Super Soldier Bucky Barnes Voice

Music videos

Year Title Role Artist
2008 "Wake Up Call" Boyfriend Hayden Panettiere

Awards and nominations

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