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Tony Shalhoub
Shalhoub, December 2008
Born	Anthony Marcus Shalhoub October 9, 1953 (1953-10-09) (age 56) Green Bay, Wisconsin United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1986–present
Spouse(s)	Brooke Adams (1992–present)

Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953) is an 3 Emmy Award Winning, Golden Globe Animated actor American actor, best known for his roles as Antonio Scarpacci on Wings and as OCD sleuth Adrian Monk on the TV series Monk.

Contents 1 Early life 2 The stage 3 Breaking into screen roles 4 Monk 5 Career during Monk 6 Personal life 7 Filmography 7.1 Motion pictures 7.2 Television 8 References 9 External links

Early life

Shalhoub was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joe Shalhoub, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of 10. He married Shalhoub’s mother, Helen, a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family grocery chain, starting with a store in downtown Green Bay.

The second youngest of the couple's 10 children, Tony Shalhoub was introduced to the theater by an older sister who put his name forward as an extra in a high school production of The King and I. Despite finding himself standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became addicted to the theater. Shalhoub graduated from Green Bay East High School, where his senior peers named him the best dressed and most likely to succeed. 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. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine in Portland, going on to earn a masters 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.

He has been confirmed to star as Saunders in the Broadway revival of Lend Me a Tenor, which will begin performances at the Music Box Theatre on March 11, 2010.²

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."

Shalhoub's film roles following his Wings breakout included an excitable producer 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, 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. And in 1995 he had a role in the hit NBC sitcom Frasier [1] in the episode The Focus Group as an Arab newsstand owner named Manu Habbib

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 terrorist attack sites in New York City.

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.

He also 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.

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

Monk

After a two-year absence from the small screen, Shalhoub starred in another TV series, 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, which later reran the first season in 2002, but he eventually turned it down. Shalhoub was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series seven consecutive years, from 2002 to 2009, and won the Emmy in 2003, 2005, and 2006.

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 runners-up were also invited to participate in the production.

Shalhoub appeared 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

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Shalhoub married actress Brooke Adams in 1992. The two have worked together in several films, and Adams has made guest appearances on Monk, almost always as different characters. She appeared in Mr Monk and the Airplane, Mr Monk and the Kid, Mr Monk Visits a Farm, Mr Monk's 100th Case, and Mr. Monk and the Badge.

At the time of their wedding Adams had an adopted daughter, Josie Lynn (born 1988), whom Shalhoub adopted. In 1994, they adopted another daughter, Sophie (born 1993). Both adoptions are open. The family resides in Los Angeles and Green Bay.

Shalhoub is a fan of the Green Bay Packers.

His brother Michael has appeared three times on Monk, first as Ron Abrash in Mr Monk And The Missing Granny, as Ned the Beekeeper in Mr Monk Bumps His Head, and as the minister in Mr Monk is the Best Man.

The actor's sister Susan Shalhoub Larkin appeared in Mr Monk and the Genius.

In 2006, another Shaloub, Dan, appeared on the reality show American Inventor, pitching the Sha-Poopie, a catch-in-action pooper scooper. Judges rejected it. The invention has since appeared on an episode of Monk.

Tony Shalhoub is the cousin of Chicago radio personality Jonathon Brandmeier. He is also the brother-in-law of former Guiding Light actress Lynne Adams.

Filmography

Motion pictures

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1988	Alone in the Neon Jungle	Nahid
1989	Money, Power, Murder	Seth Parker
	Day One	Enrico Fermi	TV movie
1990	Quick Change	Taxicab Driver
	Longtime Companion	Paul's Doctor
1991	Barton Fink	Ben Geisler
1992	Honeymoon in Vegas	Buddy Walker
1993	Gypsy	Uncle Jocko	1993 TV movie
	Addams Family Values	Jorge
	Searching for Bobby Fischer	Chess Club Member
1994	I.Q.	Bob Rosetti
1996	Radiant City	Narrator
	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 Belenkoff
	Primary Colors	Eddie Reyes
1999	Galaxy Quest	Fred Kwan
	That Championship Season	George Sitkowski
	The Tic Code	Phil
2001	Thir13en Ghosts	Arthur Kriticos
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Freddy Riedenschneider
	Spy Kids	Alexander Minion
	The Heart Department	Dr. Joseph Nassar
2002	Life or Something Like It	Prophet Jack
	Made-Up	Max Hires	Director
	Impostor	Nelson Gittes
	Men in Black II	Jack Jeebs
	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Alexander Minion
2003	Party Animals	Celebrity Father
	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over	Alexander Minion
	T for Terrorist	Man in White Suit
	Something More	Mr. Avery
2004	The Last Shot	Tommy Sanz
	Against the Ropes	Sam LaRocca
2005	Mush		Executive producer
	The Naked Brothers Band	Himself	Mockumentary
	The Great New Wonderful	Dr. Trabulous
2006	Cars	Luigi	Voice (animated)
	Sacco and Vanzetti	Nicola Sacco	Voice; Documentary
2007	Careless	Mr. Roth
	AmericanEast	Sam
	1408	Sam Farrell
2009	Feed the Fish	Sheriff Anderson	(post-production)

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	The Equalizer	Terrorist	Season 1, Episode 19 "Breakpoint"
1987	Spenser: For Hire	Dr. Hambrecht	Season 2, Episode 19 "The Road Back"
1991	Monsters	Mancini	Season 3, Episode 17 "Leavings"
1991 - 1997	Wings	Antonio Scarpacci
1992	Dinosaurs	Jerry	Voice (puppet) Season 2, Episode 14 "Fran Live"
1995	Gargoyles	The Emir	Voice (animated) Season 2, Episode 31 "Grief"
	The X-Files	Dr. Chester Ray Banton	Season 2, Episode 23 "Soft Light"
1996	Frasier	Manu	Season 3, Episode 23 "The Focus Group"
	Almost Perfect	Alex Thorpe	Season 1, Episode 16 "Auto Neurotic"
1997	White Lightning	Baby Duck	Voice (animated)
1999	Ally McBeal	Albert Shepley	Season 2, Episode 18 "Those Lips, That Hand"
1999 - 2000	Stark Raving Mad	Ian Stark
2000	MADtv	Taxi Cab Driver, Himself	Season 5, Episode 18 Season 5, Episode 24
2002 - 2009	Monk	Adrian Monk & Frank DePalma	Producer/Executive Producer

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
• Interview with Tony Shalhoub in Venice Magazine

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