Stanley Tucci, the Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor and New York Times best-selling author, will join NBCUniversal’s primetime coverage of the Milan Cortina Olympic Winter Games in February 2026. The Italian American actor will be on-site in northern Italy during the Games, spotlighting the local cuisine, culture, and lifestyle on NBC and Peacock. Coverage of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begins with the Opening Ceremony on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, on NBC and Peacock.
During primetime, Tucci will present travelogue-style segments highlighting the food, traditions, and history of the regions hosting the Winter Olympics. He is well known for exploring Italian culture on television, having won two consecutive Emmy Awards for CNN’s Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy and currently hosting National Geographic’s Tucci in Italy, which spotlights 10 regions across the country, including northern Italy. Tucci’s own roots trace back to Marzi, a town in Calabria in southern Italy.
