[3] She also won an OBIE award for her performance as Phaedo in "Talk" by Carl Hancock Rux at the Joseph Papp Public Theater.

Tucci began her acting education at a young age, studying with Lee Strasberg and Joseph Papp.

They moved into the Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District in 1973, where she became friends with neighbors such as Janet Malcolm who was a fellow working mother married to an editor.

[8] Tucci and Gottlieb opened their home to various well-known visitors including Kate Reid, Doris Lessing, Edna O’Brien, and Nora Ephron who moved in with her two sons during her divorce.

Her first credits were in Robert Frank's Me and My Brother and a CBS Playhouse production titled Shadow Game.

In 1967 she starred as Alexandra Giddens in a revival of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, with Anne Bancroft as her mother.