Stanley Tucci and Felicity Blunt married in 2012 after a friendship that began at the 2006 premiere of The Devil Wears Prada and was renewed at Emily Blunt and John Krasinski's 2010 wedding in Como, Italy.
The marriage produced two children, Matteo and Emilia, and came after a private summer ceremony followed by a larger celebration in London in late September 2012 attended by actors including Colin Firth, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. Tucci is 65 and Blunt is 45; he has said publicly that they are 21 years apart.
Tucci had been married to Kate Spath-Tucci since 1995; she died of cancer in 2009. He has three children from that marriage, and he has repeatedly credited felicity blunt with taking on the role of partner and stepmother as the family rebuilt itself. He has described her as having made life better for all of them and praised her for taking on a widower and three children at a young age.
The numbers underline how private the couple’s life has been and how much of the story is about family rather than celebrity: first meeting in 2006, a reconnection in 2010, marriage in 2012, two children of their own and three children from Tucci’s earlier marriage. That sequence also frames why Tucci has spoken about fear and hesitation before committing — he has said he tried to break off the relationship because of the age gap and his own worries about feeling old — and yet decided Blunt was “incredibly special.”
Context expands the choice: Blunt is an English literary agent at the Curtis Brown Group and the sister of Emily Blunt, which put her in Tucci’s circle through industry and family ties. Tucci worked on The Devil Wears Prada, the film where they first met, and that connection has become part of the public curiosity about the pair: a meeting at a film premiere led, four years later, to a private marriage and a blended household.
The tension in the arc is straightforward. Tucci lost his first wife to cancer and entered a new relationship with a woman two decades his junior. He says the grief never disappears, but that holding onto it as if it were the only truth would make life impossible — for oneself and for the children. At the same time, he has insisted that Blunt’s willingness to enter that life and help raise his children was enormous and unusual for someone so young.
That tension — between age, loss and the practical work of family life — is what gives the marriage its meaning, not a celebrity wedding or a public romance. Tucci has noted that they share a similar sense of humour and a blend of romanticism and cynicism that, in his view, keeps the relationship grounded. Those shared traits, plus Blunt’s decision to join a family already marked by grief, are the concrete reasons the union has endured.
What happens next is not a question of spectacle but of consequence: the couple’s private choices have already reshaped a family. By stepping into life with a widower and his children, Blunt changed the daily reality for five young people and the man who lost his first wife. That, by Tucci’s own account, is why their marriage matters — it wasn’t just a celebrity match, it was a practical, stabilizing choice that rebuilt a household.
