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Sebastian Stan is a Romanian-American actor born in Constanța, Romania, on 13 August 1982. His screen work spans long-running franchise roles, television miniseries and independent films.

Stan studied acting at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. His early television work included Gossip Girl and Once Upon a Time, before his role as Bucky Barnes introduced him to a wider audience through Marvel films.

Beginning with Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Bucky’s story changes from wartime friendship to the troubled identity of the Winter Soldier. Stan later revisited the character alongside Anthony Mackie in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

In the miniseries Pam & Tommy (2022), he portrayed musician Tommy Lee and received an Emmy nomination. In A Different Man (2024), he played Edward, an actor whose altered appearance reshapes his sense of identity; the performance won him a Golden Globe.

The same year, Stan portrayed Donald Trump in The Apprentice, earning an Academy Award nomination for leading actor. The contrast between these projects and his franchise work shows an actor moving among very different scales and forms of transformation.