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Anthony Marc Shalhoub ( ; born October 9, 1953), is an American actor. His accolades include five
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, a
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, six
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, a
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, and a
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nomination. He played Adrian Monk in the
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television series ''
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'', Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom '' Wings'' and Abe Weissman on
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's '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''. Shalhoub has also had a successful film career, with roles in films such as '' Quick Change'' (1990), ''
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'' (1991), ''
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'' (1996), ''
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'', '' Gattaca'' (both 1997), '' Paulie,'' '' The Siege'' (both 1998), ''
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'' (1999), ''
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'', '' Thirteen Ghosts'', '' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (all 2001), and '' 1408'' (2007). For his work on
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, Shalhoub has received four
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nominations, winning a
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for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in ''
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''. He has also provided voice work for the ''
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'' franchise (2006–2022), ''
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'' (2014), and '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' (2016).


Early life and education

Shalhoub, the ninth of 10 children, was born and raised in a Lebanese
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household in
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. His father, Joseph (1912–1991), was from
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while it was still part of the
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and immigrated to the United States as a child after his own parents, Milhelm and Mariam, died during
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.Stated on ''
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'', February 9, 2021
After immigrating to America, Joe Shalhoub became a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. Joe married Shalhoub's mother, Helen Seroogy (1910-1983), a Lebanese-American. The two met when Joe was taken in to be raised by her family, when both were young. The Seroogy family operated a candy store that remains a family business. One of Shalhoub's maternal great-great-grandfathers, Abdul Naimy, although ethnically Lebanese, was reportedly killed in a dramatic way, being crucified in 1895 during the
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committed against Christian
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. 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''. After graduating from
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, he spent a short time at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay before participating in the
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to the
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where he later transferred and earned a bachelor's degree. He later went on to earn a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.


Career


Stage

Shortly after graduating from Yale, Shalhoub moved to
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, where he spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theater before heading to New York City, where he found work waiting tables. He made his Broadway debut in the 1985 Rita Moreno/Sally Struthers production of '' The Odd Couple'' and was nominated for a 1992
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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''. In 1998 Shalhoub starred in The Classic Stage Company's production of Waiting For Godot alongside
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and
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. Shalhoub returned in December 2006 to the Off-Broadway Second Stage Theatre, opposite Patricia Heaton for a run of '' The Scene'' by
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. 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. 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. 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
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. Shalhoub and his wife appeared in
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's ''Happy Days'' in June and July, 2015 in New York City. He starred in the musical stage adaptation of the film ''
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'', in the Off-Broadway Atlantic Theatre Company production. The musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by
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, ran from November 11, 2016 through December 23, 2016. He reprised his role when the show moved to Broadway where it opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on November 9, 2017. For his performance, he won the 2018
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. He also appeared as Walter Franz in the 2017 Broadway revival of '' The Price''.


Screen roles

After playing several small television and film roles from 1986 to 1991, he landed the role of cab driver Antonio Scarpacci in the sitcom '' Wings''. Shalhoub was pleasantly surprised to land the role after having a guest appearance as a waiter in the second season. He became a regular in the third season. The character's name was kept, but the character's occupation changed to a cab driver. He affected an Italian accent for the role. Shalhoub played the role from 1991 until the series ended in 1997. In the same time period, Shalhoub played the lead role of physicist Dr. Chester Ray Banton in ''
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'' second-season episode " Soft Light", the first episode written by Vince Gilligan. Banton's shadow becomes lethal after Banton gets stuck in a
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, causing him to accidentally destroy anyone close to him, after which the government imprisons and tortures him in an effort to weaponize his
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. Shalhoub's film roles following his ''Wings'' breakout included an excitable producer consulted by
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's character in ''
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'' and a fast-talking lawyer in '' The Man Who Wasn't There'' (both directed by the
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), a linguistically unidentified cabby in '' Quick Change'', a Cuban-American businessman in ''
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,'' sleazy alien pawn shop owner Jack Jeebs in the ''
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'' films, an attorney in '' A Civil Action'', a widowed father in '' Thirteen Ghosts'', a cameo role in the film '' Gattaca'', and a has-been television star in ''
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''. He had a co-starring role in the film ''
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'', where he played an Italian-speaking chef complete with accent. In 1995 he had a role in the hit NBC sitcom ''
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'' in the episode "The Focus Group" as an
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newsstand owner named Manu Habbib. He did voice acting for the 1997 computer game ''
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''. Shalhoub demonstrated his dramatic range in the 1998 big-budget thriller '' The Siege'', where he co-starred alongside
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,
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, and
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. His character, FBI Special Agent Frank Haddad, also a Lebanese American, suffered discrimination after terrorist attacks in New York City. He returned to series television in 1999, this time in a lead role on '' Stark Raving Mad'', opposite
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. The show failed to attract an audience and NBC canceled the series in 2000.


''Monk''

After a three-year absence from the small screen, Shalhoub starred in another TV series, ''
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''. Airing on the
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, the series featured Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. He was nominated for an
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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. In May 2020, NBC's
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streaming service posted a series of videos on
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during the
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, entitled the "At-Home Variety Show". Among them was a ''Monk'' short entitled "Mr. Monk Shelters in Place", featuring Shalhoub and his co-stars
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, Ted Levine, and
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, showing how their characters were coping with the pandemic.


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.
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filmmakers submitted screenplays, and the chosen winner was flown to Hollywood to have their screenplay produced. He appeared with
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and
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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
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as Charlie in '' The Scene''.


''The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''

Shalhoub stars as Jewish-American math professor Abe Weissman, father of protagonist Midge Maisel ( Rachel Brosnahan), in the Emmy-winning, Amazon-produced TV comedy series '' The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel''.


Voice work

His first two voiceover credits were as Aradesh in the original ''Fallout'' in his only non-Cars related video game credit, and Emir in one episode of the Disney animated series ''Gargoyles''. He received a 2008 Grammy nomination in the category "Best Spoken Word Album for Children" for his narration of ''
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''. He provided the voice of Luigi, a 1959 Fiat 500 who runs a tire shop, in the 2006
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film ''
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'' and its 2011 and 2017 sequels, ''
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'' and '' Cars 3'', respectively, as well as 3 episodes of the short-form ''Cars'' series '' Tales from Radiator Springs'' (2013-2014) and the first episode of ''
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'' (2022), and several video games in the franchise (2006-2011). Shalhoub voiced
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in the 2014 film ''
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'' and reprised the role in '' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows'' (2016). He most recently played the character of Fred in the 2021 animated film, ''Rumble''.


Investing

Shalhoub is an investor in the Michelin-starred Italian restaurant, Rezdora.


Personal life

Shalhoub married actress Brooke Adams in 1992. They have worked together in several films, in one episode of '' Wings'', and on ''
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''. 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). 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
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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
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's wedding. In May 2020, Shalhoub revealed that he and his wife Brooke had tested positive for
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the previous month, remarking that "we really ''are'' all Monk now" and that they had recovered after "a pretty rough few weeks".


Filmography


Film


Television


Stage


Video games


Producer


Awards and nominations


References


External links

* * *
Star File: Tony Shalhoub
at Broadway.com
Interview with Tony Shalhoub
in ''Venice Magazine''
1st Annual Arab-American Film Maker Award 2005
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