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Tony Shalhoub
Shalhoub, December 2008
Born	Anthony Marcus Shalhoub October 9, 1953 (1953-10-09) (age 55) Green Bay, Wisconsin United States
Years active	1986–present
Spouse(s)	Brooke Adams (1992–present)

Anthony Marcus “Tony” Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953) is an American actor, best known for his role as eccentric sleuth Adrian Monk on the series of the same name.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 The stage 1.3 Breaking into screen roles 1.4 On Monk 1.5 Career during Monk 1.6 Personal life 2 Filmography 2.1 Motion pictures 2.2 Television 3 References 4 External links

Biography

Early life

Shalhoub was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was raised. His father, Joe Shalhoub, immigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten. He later married Shalhoub’s mother, Helen, a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family company from the humble start of one grocery store in the center of Green Bay. Tony is the second youngest of ten children.

Tony Shalhoub’s brothers and sisters introduced him to the theater. When Tony was six years old, one of his elder sisters volunteered her little brother to play an extra in a high school production of The King and I. Even though Tony was left standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became addicted to the theater. Tony graduated from Green Bay East High School, with his senior peers finding him the best dressed and most likely to succeed. His career almost ended before it started when he broke his leg his senior year. He fell off the stage into the pit during rehearsal. His leg recovered quickly and he was able to perform in the school's final play of the year. He then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine in Portland, and earned a master’s degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.

The 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. His Off-Broadway credits include Waiting for Godot, For Dear Life, Rameau's Nephew, Zero Positive, and two productions of "Shakespeare in the Park", Henry IV, Part 1 and Richard II.

Shalhoub was to return in December 2006 to Off-Broadway at Second Stage Theatre with (Everybody Loves Raymond star) Patricia Heaton for a run of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck.¹ Rebeck’s black comedy takes a look at the NYC entertainment scene with Shalhoub starring as Charlie, a has-been actor who is married to Heaton's character Stella, a very successful producer of a morning television show.

Breaking into screen roles

By 1991, one of his first television roles was as the Italian cabdriver Antonio Scarpacci in the sitcom Wings. Shalhoub was pleasantly surprised to land the role after having a recurring role 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."

His film roles after Wings include a fast-talking lawyer in The Man Who Wasn't There, a Cuban-American businessman in Primary Colors, a sleazy alien pawn shop owner in the Men in Black films, a sympathetic attorney in A Civil Action, a widowed father in Thir13en Ghosts, and a has-been television star in Galaxy Quest. He also had a co-starring role in the film Big Night, where he plays an Italian-speaking chef complete with accent.

Shalhoub demonstrated his dramatic range in the 1998 big-budget thriller, The Siege starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, and Bruce Willis. His character, FBI Special Agent Frank Haddad, was of Middle Eastern descent and suffered discrimination after Arab terrorists attack sites in New York City.

He most recently appeared with Alec Baldwin in the Hollywood satire The Last Shot as a gruff small-time mobster with a love for movies and as the voice of Luigi in the Pixar film Cars.

He later returned to series television in 1999, this time in a lead role on Stark Raving Mad opposite Neil Patrick Harris. The show did not attract much of an audience, and NBC cancelled the series in July 2000.

Shalhoub did voice acting for the computer game Fallout. He was one of the celebrity judges for the "Bush In 30 Seconds" advertisement competition.

On Monk

After a two year absence from the small screen, Shalhoub is starring in another TV series that is already matching the popularity of Wings, Monk, in which he plays a San Francisco detective diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder, for USA Network. Michael Richards had been offered the role when the show was being considered for broadcast on ABC, a network which would later rerun the first season in 2003, but he eventually turned it down. Shalhoub was nominated for Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series six times consecutively, from 2003-2008.

Career 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, with the chosen winner flown to Hollywood to have their screenplay produced. Two runner ups are also invited to participate in the production.

Most recently, Shalhoub can be seen onscreen in the horror film 1408 as John Cusack’s literary agent.

In 2007, Shalhoub played Charlie in The Scene off-Broadway.

He received a 2008 Grammy nomination in the category "Best Spoken Word Album For Children" for his narration of The Cricket In Times Square.

Personal life

Shalhoub married actress Brooke Adams in 1992. The two have worked together in several films, and Adams has also made guest appearances on Monk. At the time of their wedding, Adams had an adopted daughter, Josie Lynn (born 1988), whom Tony also adopted after he and Brooke married. In 1994, they adopted another daughter, Sophie (born 1993). Both adoptions are open. The family resides in Los Angeles and Green Bay.

Like many native Wisconsinites, Shalhoub is a fan of the Green Bay Packers.

Shalhoub’s brother Michael has appeared on two episodes of Monk, and his sister Susan Shalhoub Larkin appeared in another (Mr. Monk and the Genius). In 2006, another brother, Dan, appeared on the reality show, American Inventor, where he pitched an invention called the "Sha-Poopie", a small disposable box on a retracting stick that is used to catch a dog’s fecal matter; the product was rejected by the judges as being disgusting. Shalhoub is the cousin of Chicago radio personality Jonathon Brandmeier. He is the brother-in-law of former Guiding Light actress Lynne Adams.

Filmography

Motion pictures

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2007	Careless	Mr. Roth
	AmericanEast	Sam
	1408	Sam Farrell
2006	Cars	Luigi	Voice (animated)
	Sacco and Vanzetti	Nicola Sacco	Voice; Documentary
2005	Mush		Executive producer
	The Naked Brothers Band	Himself	Mockumentary
	The Great New Wonderful	Dr. Trabulous
2004	The Last Shot	Tommy Sanz
	Against the Ropes	Sam LaRocca
2003	Party Animals	Celebrity Father
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Alexander Minion
	T for Terrorist	Man in White Suit
	Something More	Mr. Avery
	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Alexander Minion
2002	Life or Something Like It	Prophet Jack
	Made-Up	Max Hires	Director
	Impostor	Nelson Gittes
	Men in Black II	Jack Jeebs
2001	Thir13en Ghosts	Arthur Kriticos
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Freddy Riedenschneider
	Spy Kids	Alexander Minion
	The Heart Department	Dr. Joseph Nassar
1999	Galaxy Quest	Fred Kwan
	That Championship Season	George Sitkowski
	The Tic Code	Phil
1998	A Civil Action	Kevin Conway
	The Siege	Agent Frank Haddad
	The Impostors	Voltri, First Mate
	Paulie	Misha Belenkoff
	Primary Colors	Eddie Reyes
1997	A Life Less Ordinary	Al
	Gattaca	German
	Men in Black	Jack Jeebs
1996	Radiant City	Narrator
	Big Night	Primo
1994	I.Q.	Bob Rosetti
1993	Gypsy	Uncle Jocko
	Addams Family Values	Jorge
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Chess Club Member
1992	Honeymoon in Vegas	Buddy Walker
1991	Barton Fink	Ben Geisler
1990	Quick Change	Cab Driver
	Longtime Companion	Paul's Doctor
1989	Money, Power, Murder	Seth Parker
	Day One	Enrico Fermi
1988	Alone in the Neon Jungle	Nahid

Television

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
2002-2010	Monk Season 1 - Season 8	Adrian Monk	Executive Producer (Season 2-8)
2000	MADtv -Season 5, Episode 18 -Season 5, Episode 24	Taxi Cab Driver, Himself
1999 - 2000	Stark Raving Mad	Ian Stark
1999	Ally McBeal -Season 2, Episode 18 Those Lips, That Hand	Albert Shepley
1997	White Lightning	Baby Duck	Voice (animated)
1996	Frasier -Season 3, Episode 23 The Focus Group	Manu
	Almost Perfect -Season 1, Episode 16 Auto Neurotic	Alex Thorpe
1995	Gargoyles -Season 2, Episode 31 Grief	The Emir	Voice (animated)
1995	The X-Files -Season 2, Episode 23 Soft Light	Dr. Chester Ray Banton
1992	Dinosaurs -Season 2, Episode 14 Fran Live	Jerry	Voice (puppet)
1991 - 1997	Wings	Antonio Scarpacci
1991	Monsters -Season 3, Episode 17 Leavings	Mancini
1987	Spenser: For Hire -Season 2, Episode 19 The Road Back	Dr. Hambrecht
1986	The Equalizer -Season 1, Episode 19 Breakpoint	Terrorist

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tony Shalhoub

• Tony Shalhoub at the Internet Movie Database
• Tony Shalhoub at the Internet Broadway Database
• 1st Annual Arab-American Film Maker Award 2005
• Star File: Tony Shalhoub at Broadway.com
• Q&A: Tony Shalhoub

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Charlie Sheen for Spin City	Golden Globe - Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy 2003 for Monk	Succeeded by Ricky Gervais for The Office
Preceded by Sean Hayes for Will & Grace	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor - Comedy Series 2004, 2005 for Monk	Succeeded by Sean Hayes for Will & Grace

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