Sebastian Stan is a Romanian–American actor, who gained recognition for his role as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier in the MCU.
Let’s find out more about the actor!
- He speaks English and Romanian fluently.
- In The First Avenger: The War of the Heroes (2016) he actually speaks Romanian in the first scene set in Bucharest, Romania.
- He had to have a new metal arm molded and made for his character of Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier in The First Avenger: The War of the Heroes (2016) because he had gained over twenty pounds of muscle for the role and became too big to fit in his old one.
- Did all his own stunts in the movie The Covenant (2006).
- His godmother is makeup mogul and fellow Romanian Anastasia Soare of ‘Anastasia Beverly Hills’.
- Before being cast as James “Bucky” Barnes in Captain America (2011), he was considered for the ‘Steve Rogers/Captain America’ part.
- He almost didn’t have a career as an actor. In a 2017 interview, he told that his mother kept sending him to auditions back when he was a kid which led to his first film appearance in Michael Haneke’s 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994).
- Sebastian Stan didn’t enjoy the working process, telling his mom he had a horrible time shooting the movie and that he didn’t want to pursue a career with it. He changed his mind after acting in his first school plays.
- He is Romanian.
- At age 8, his mother moved with him from Romania to Vienna, Austria, where she was employed as a pianist. When he was age 12, they moved to Rockland County, New York, where his mother married the headmaster of an American private school.
- Graduated from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey with a BFA in Acting.
- Has had a love of astronomy since childhood, and considered working in the field before acting.
- He is best friends with his Marvel co-star and on-screen frenemy Anthony Mackie.
- His character Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier’s trademark long hair has always been a wig except for in The First Avenger: The War of the Heroes (2016) because he had enough time to actually grow his hair out. In every other film portraying the same character, he didn’t have enough time for it to grow to the proper long length because of other projects he was filming.
- Sebastian had a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene as Bucky Barnes at the very end credits of Black Panther. When his mom saw the film she didn’t stay for the end credits, thus missing her son’s scene.
- Has portrayed a troubled, closeted gay son of a powerful parent in three different productions, Martin Waters in The Architect (2006), Jack Benjamin in Kings (2009), and T.J. Hammond in Political Animals (2012).
- He appears in three features nominated for a ‘Best Picture’ Academy Award: Black Swan (2010), The Martian (2015), and Black Panther (2018).
- Attended the famous performing arts summer camp Stagedoor Manor.
- Is friends with his co-stars Toby Hemingway and Chace Crawford from The Covenant (2006).
- He was in a relationship with Leighton Meester from 2008 to 2010, with Dianna Agron from 2011 to 2012, with Jennifer Morrison from 2012 to 2013, and with Russian actress Margarita Levieva from 2014 to 2016.
- He has worked twice with Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme, in Rachel Getting Married (2008) and Ricki and the Flash (2015).
- He portrayed the brother of Hayden Panettiere’s character in The Architect (2006), and her boyfriend in Hayden Panettiere: Wake Up Call (2008).
- Starring in Eric Bogosian’s play “Talk Radio”. (April 2007)
- His mother’s name is Georgeta.
- Grew out his hair and dyed it black for his role as Tommy Lee in Pam & Tommy (2022).
- Born at 5:00pm-EEDT.
- Ed Brubaker believes Stan can play Ethan Reckless in the film/tv adaptation of the Reckless graphic novels.
- Used to smoke cigarettes as a way to relax himself during auditions before he quit the habit for healthier alternatives like meditation.
- Before he made it big as an actor, he worked at a Cinema 6 in New York City as an usher who sold popcorn, and also worked for H&M.
- His zodiac sign is Leo.
