Finding Realness with Sebastian

Sebastian Stan 41 years(born August 13, 1982)is a Romanian–American actor. He gained recognition for his role as Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier in the Marvel Cinematic Universe media franchise beginning with the film Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), and including the Disney+ miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021). On television, Stan played Carter Baizen in Gossip Girl (2007–2010) and Mad Hatter in Once Upon a Time (2012), and was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award for his performance in the miniseries Political Animals (2012). In 2022, he received critical acclaim for playing Tommy Lee in the Hulu miniseries Pam & Tommy earning nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Critics' Choice Award. In film, Stan had supporting roles in Jonathan Demme's comedy-drama Ricki and the Flash, Ridley Scott's science fiction film The Martian (both 2015), and Steven Soderbergh's heist comedy Logan Lucky (2017). He has since starred in the biopic I, Tonya (2017) and the thriller Fresh (2022). In 2024, he won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for playing a man with neurofibromatosis in A Different Man. Early life Stan was born in Constanța, Romania. He was named by his pianist mother after the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.[4] His parents divorced when he was two years old. When he was eight, he and his mother, Georgeta Orlovschi,[5][6][7] moved to Vienna, Austria, where she was employed as a pianist, following the Fall of Communism in 1989.[8] Four years later, they moved to Rockland County, New York, after his mother married the headmaster of a school in the United States.[9] He was raised in the Romanian Orthodox Church.[10] During Stan's years at the Rockland school, he starred in productions including Harvey, Cyrano de Bergerac, Little Shop of Horrors, Over Here!, and West Side Story. He also attended the Stagedoor Manor summer camp where he was cast in many camp productions. It was then that he decid