Maria Tucci

Maria Tucci is an American actress who came up through the off-Broadway theater, where The Trojan Women was one of her earliest credits, in 1963. That same year she made her Broadway debut in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, the first of fourteen Broadway credits. Her Rose Delle Rose in a 1966 staging of The Rose Tattoo, opposite Maureen Stapleton, drew a Tony nomination in the featured actress category, and in 1967 she played Alexandra Giddens in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes. Later she starred in a 1988 revival of The Night of the Iguana, and she was Ruth Steiner in the 1997 New York debut of Collected Stories, which brought a Pulitzer Prize for Drama nomination. She won an OBIE for Phaedo in Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, took the role of Koula in The Slap, a 2015 miniseries, and appeared in Sidney Lumet's Daniel and Gus Van Sant's To Die For (1995).