Tony Shalhoub
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| Born | Anthony Marcus Shalhoub October 9, 1953 Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Southern Maine Yale School of Drama |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
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Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub (/ʃəˈluːb/ shə-LOOB; born October 9, 1953) is an American actor. His television work includes Antonio Scarpacci in Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the TV series Monk, for which he has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
He has also had a successful career as a character actor, with roles in films such as Barton Fink (1991), Big Night (1996), Men in Black (1997), The Siege (1998), Galaxy Quest (1999), Spy Kids (2001), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Cars (2006), 1408 (2007), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).
Early life
Shalhoub is the ninth of ten children, and was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin.[1][2] His father, Joe, was from Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten. Joe married Shalhoub’s mother, Helen (née Seroogy),[3] a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family grocery chain, starting with a store in downtown Green Bay.
Shalhoub was introduced to acting by an older sister who put his name forward to be an extra in a high school production of The King and I.[1] Despite finding himself standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became enamored of the theater. Shalhoub attended Green Bay East High School. In his senior year he suffered a setback, breaking his leg in a fall off the stage into the pit during a rehearsal. Recovering quickly, he was able to perform in the school's final play of the year. After a short time at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, he earned a bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine. He later went on to earn a master's from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.[1][4]
Career
Stage
Shortly thereafter, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theater before heading to New York City, where he found work waiting tables while honing his craft and auditioning. He made his Broadway debut in the 1985 Rita Moreno/Sally Struthers production of The Odd Couple and was nominated for a 1992 Tony Award for his featured role in Conversations with My Father. Shalhoub met his wife, actress Brooke Adams, when they co-starred on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles.[citation needed]
Shalhoub returned in December 2006 to the Second Stage Theatre in New York, off-Broadway, opposite Patricia Heaton for a run of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck.[5] In 2010, he went to Broadway to act as Saunders in a revival version of Lend Me a Tenor in New York at the Music Box Theatre.[6] He was nominated for a 2013 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play for Lincoln Center Theater's production of Golden Boy at the Belasco Theatre.[7] He was nominated for a 2014 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play for Lincoln Center Theater's production of Act One at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre.[8]
Screen roles
One of Shalhoub's first television roles was in 1991 as the Italian cabdriver Antonio Scarpacci in the sitcom Wings. Shalhoub was pleasantly surprised to land the role after having a guest appearance in the second season. Shalhoub affected an Italian accent for the role. In the same time period, Shalhoub played physicist Dr. Chester Ray Banton in The X-Files second-season episode "Soft Light".
Shalhoub's film roles following his Wings breakout included an excitable producer consulted by John Turturro's character in Barton Fink and a fast-talking lawyer in The Man Who Wasn't There (both directed by the Coen brothers), a linguistically unidentified cabby in Quick Change, a Cuban-American businessman in Primary Colors, sleazy alien pawn shop owner Jack Jeebs in the Men in Black films, a sympathetic attorney working for John Travolta's lawyer in A Civil Action, a widowed father in Thir13en Ghosts, a cameo role in the film Gattaca, and a has-been television star in Galaxy Quest.
He had a co-starring role in the film Big Night, where he plays an Italian-speaking chef complete with accent. In 1995 he had a role in the hit NBC sitcom Frasier in the episode "The Focus Group" as an Arab newsstand owner named Manu Habbib. He did voice acting for the 1997 computer game Fallout.
Shalhoub demonstrated his dramatic range in the 1998 big-budget thriller The Siege, where he co-starred alongside Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, and Bruce Willis. His character, FBI Special Agent Frank Haddad, was of Middle Eastern descent and suffered discrimination after terrorist attacks in New York City.[9] He returned to series television in 1999, this time in a lead role on Stark Raving Mad, opposite Neil Patrick Harris. The show failed to attract an audience and NBC cancelled the series in 2000.[10]
Monk
After a two-year absence from the small screen, Shalhoub starred in another TV series, Monk. Airing on the USA Network, the series featured Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, a brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Shalhoub was nominated for an Emmy Award[11] for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in eight consecutive years from 2003 to 2010, winning in 2003, 2005, and 2006. He also took the Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, in 2003.[12]
During Monk
In addition to his acting work, Shalhoub, along with the Network of Arab-American Professionals and Zoom-in-Focus Productions, established The Arab-American Filmmaker Award Competition in 2005. Arab-American filmmakers submitted screenplays, and the chosen winner was flown to Hollywood to have their screenplay produced.[citation needed]
He appeared with Matthew Broderick and Alec Baldwin in the 2004 Hollywood satire The Last Shot as a gruff small-time mobster with a love for movies. In 2006, he appeared in Danny Leiner's drama The Great New Wonderful as a psychologist in post-9/11 New York City. In 2007, he appeared in the horror film 1408 and on-stage off-Broadway as Charlie in The Scene.
Voice work
He received a 2008 Grammy nomination in the category "Best Spoken Word Album for Children" for his narration of The Cricket in Times Square.[13] He provided the voice of Luigi, a 1959 Fiat 500 who runs a tire shop, in the 2006 Disney/Pixar film Cars and its 2011 sequel, Cars 2. Shalhoub voiced Splinter in the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and reprised the role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.[14]
Personal life
Shalhoub married actress Brooke Adams in 1992. They have worked together in several films, one episode of Wings, and on BrainDead. Adams has appeared credited as a "Special Guest Star" in five episodes of Monk—"Mr. Monk and the Airplane", "Mr. Monk's 100th Case", "Mr. Monk and the Kid", "Mr. Monk Visits a Farm", and "Mr. Monk and the Badge".
Shalhoub and Adams appeared on Broadway together in the 2010 revival of Lend Me a Tenor. At the time of their wedding, Adams had an adopted daughter, Josie Lynn (born 1989), whom Shalhoub adopted. In 1994, they adopted another daughter, Sophie (born 1993).[citation needed]
Tony's brother Michael is also an actor who made multiple guest appearances on Monk. He first appears in "Mr. Monk and the Missing Granny", as a member of a disbanded radical group suspected of involvement in a kidnapping. In "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head", he plays a Wyoming beekeeper who is annoyed when a suspect crashes a car into his farm. Michael also appears in "Mr. Monk Is the Best Man" as the minister presiding at Leland Stottlemeyer's wedding.
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Heartburn | Airplane Passenger | |
| 1989 | Longtime Companion | Paul's Doctor | |
| 1990 | Quick Change | Taxicab Driver | |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | Ben Geisler | |
| 1992 | Honeymoon in Vegas | Buddy Walker | |
| 1993 | Addams Family Values | Jorge | |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | Chess Club Member | ||
| 1994 | I.Q. | Bob Rosetti | |
| 1996 | Big Night | Primo | |
| 1997 | A Life Less Ordinary | Al | |
| Gattaca | German | ||
| Men in Black | Jack Jeebs | ||
| 1998 | A Civil Action | Kevin Conway | |
| The Siege | Agent Frank Haddad | ||
| The Impostors | Voltri, First Mate | ||
| Paulie | Misha Vilyenkov | ||
| Primary Colors | Eddie Reyes | ||
| 1999 | Galaxy Quest | Fred Kwan | |
| The Tic Code | Phil | ||
| 2001 | Thir13en Ghosts | Arthur Kriticos | |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Freddy Riedenschneider | ||
| Spy Kids | Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion | ||
| 2002 | Life or Something Like It | Prophet Jack | |
| Made-Up | Max Hires | Also directed | |
| Impostor | Nelson Gittes | ||
| Men in Black II | Jack Jeebs | ||
| Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams | Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion | ||
| 2003 | Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | ||
| Party Animals | Celebrity Father | ||
| T for Terrorist | Man in White Suit | ||
| Something More | Mr. Avery | ||
| 2004 | The Last Shot | Tommy Sanz | |
| Against the Ropes | Sam LaRocca | ||
| 2005 | The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie | Himself | |
| The Great New Wonderful | Dr. Trabulous | ||
| 2006 | Cars | Luigi | Voice role |
| 2007 | Careless | Mr. Roth | |
| AmericanEast | Sam | ||
| 1408 | Sam Farrell | ||
| 2008 | L.A. Actors | Bum | |
| 2009 | Feed the Fish | Sheriff Anderson | |
| 2010 | How Do You Know | Psychiatrist | |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | Luigi | Voice role |
| 2013 | Movie 43 | George | Deleted sketch: "Find Our Daughter" |
| Pain & Gain | Victor Kershaw | ||
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Master Splinter | Voice role |
| 2016 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows | ||
| Tomboy, a Revenger's Tale | Dr. Ralph Galen | In post-production |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | The Equalizer | Terrorist | Episode: "Breakpoint" |
| 1987 | Spenser: For Hire | Dr. Hambrecht | Episode: "The Road Back" |
| 1988 | Alone in the Neon Jungle | Nahid | Movie |
| 1989 | Money, Power, Murder | Seth Parker | Movie |
| Day One | Enrico Fermi | Movie | |
| 1991 | Monsters | Mancini | Episode: "Leavings" |
| 1991–1997 | Wings | Antonio Scarpacci | 144 episodes |
| 1992 | Dinosaurs | Jerry (voice) | Episode: "Fran Live" |
| 1993 | Gypsy | Uncle Jocko | Movie |
| 1995 | Gargoyles | The Emir (voice) | Episode: "Grief" |
| The X-Files | Dr. Chester Ray Banton | Episode: "Soft Light" | |
| 1996 | Radiant City | Narrator | Movie |
| Frasier | Manu Habib | Episode: "The Focus Group" | |
| Almost Perfect | Alex Thorpe | Episode: "Auto Neurotic" | |
| 1999 | That Championship Season | George Sitkowski | Movie |
| Ally McBeal | Albert Shepley | Episode: "Those Lips, That Hand" | |
| 1999–2000 | Stark Raving Mad | Ian Stark | 22 episodes |
| 2000 | MADtv | Taxi Cab Driver Himself |
Episode 5.18 Episode 5.24 |
| 2001 | The Heart Department | Dr. Joseph Nassar | Movie |
| 2002–09 | Monk | Adrian Monk | 125 episodes |
| 2011 | Too Big To Fail | John Mack | Movie |
| Five | Mitch Taylor | Movie | |
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Koltsov | Movie |
| 2013 | We Are Men | Frank Russo | 7 episodes |
| 2015 | Nurse Jackie | Dr. Bernard Prince | Season 7 |
| 2016 | The Blacklist | Alistair Pitt | Episode: "Alistair Pitt (No. 103)" |
| BrainDead | Red Wheatus | Main cast |
Video games
| Year | Title | Voice role |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game | Aradesh |
| 2006 | Cars | Luigi |
| 2007 | Cars Mater-National Championship | |
| 2009 | Cars Race-O-Rama | |
| 2011 | Cars 2 |
Producer
| Year | Title | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2003–09 | Monk | 125 episodes |
| 2005 | Mush | Short film |
| 2009 | Pet Peeves | |
| Feed the Fish |
Awards and nominations
References
- ^ a b c Wojciechowski, Michele "Wojo". "We Are Men Star Tony Shalhoub on Life after Monk". parade.com.
- ^ Mendoza, N.F. (May 7, 1995). "With An Eye On...:Tony Shalhoub's 'Wings' lets him be the driver and the passenger happy to go along for the ride". latimes.com.
- ^ Greenbaypressgazette.com
- ^ Dell, Laurie S. (September 9, 2002). "From Maine to Monk: USM Alumni Tony Shalhoub". usmfreepress.org.
- ^ "Tony Shalhoub to Join Patricia Heaton in Theresa Rebeck's The Scene, Broadway.com Buzz". Broadway.com. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ Hetrick, Adam (December 17, 2009). "Tucci to Direct LaPaglia, Shalhoub, Maxwell and More in Lend Me a Tenor Broadway Revival". Playbill.com. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
- ^ "Nominations Announced for 67th Annual Tony Awards; 'Kinky Boots' Earns 13 Nominations", playbill.com; retrieved April 29, 2014
- ^ 68th Annual Tony Awards Nominations Announced; Gentleman's Guide Leads the Pack playbill, Retrieved April 29, 2014
- ^ Leibowitz, Ed (November 3, 1998). "Caught in the Middle". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-10-24.
- ^ Batchelor, Bob, ed. (2011). Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream. ABC-CLIO. p. 243. ISBN 0-313-35780-3.
- ^ Tony Shalhoub Emmy Nominated
- ^ IMDb.com, Tony Shalhoub – Awards. Retrieved 4-09-2010.
- ^ "Complete List of Nominees for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards". eonline.com. December 3, 2008.
- ^ "Johnny Knoxville, Tony Shalhoub Lend Voices To 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'". Deadline. Retrieved 2014-04-03.
External links
- Tony Shalhoub at IMDb
- Tony Shalhoub at the Internet Broadway Database
- 1st Annual Arab-American Film Maker Award 2005
- Star File: Tony Shalhoub at Broadway.com
- Interview with Tony Shalhoub in Venice Magazine
- Tony Shalhoub at Emmys.com
- 1953 births
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- 21st-century American male actors
- American film directors
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- American people of Lebanese descent
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- Best Musical or Comedy Actor Golden Globe (television) winners
- Living people
- Male actors from Wisconsin
- Outstanding Performance by a Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award winners
- Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Screen Actors Guild Award winners
- People from Green Bay, Wisconsin
- University of Southern Maine alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Green Bay alumni
- Yale School of Drama alumni
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