Tony Shalhoub

Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub (/ʃəˈluːb/ shə-LOOB; born October 9, 1953) is an American actor.
His television work includes Antonio Scarpacci in NBC sitcom Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the USA 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 film 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).
For his work on the Broadway stage, Shalhoub has received four Tonynominations, his first for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Conversations with My Father in 1992. His subsequent nominations included Golden Boy (2013) and Act One (2014), before winning the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musicalfor his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band's Visit. Shalhoub currently plays Abe Weissman, the father of the title character, on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
== Early life and education ==
Shalhoub, the ninth of ten children, was born and raised in a Maronite Christianfamily[1] in Green Bay, Wisconsin.[2][3] His father, Joe, was from Lebanon and emigrated to the United States as an orphan at the age of eight. He was a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck. He bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and sold it to stores in the region.[4] Joe married Shalhoub's mother, Helen (née Seroogy),[5] a second-generation Lebanese-American. 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.[2] Despite finding himself standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became enamored with 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 degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.[2][6]
== 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 Off-Broadway Second Stage Theatre, opposite Patricia Heaton for a run of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck.[7]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.[8] 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.[9] 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.[10] Shalhoub and his wife appeared in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days in June and July, 2015 in New York City.[11][12]
He starred in the musical stage adaptation of the film The Band's Visit, in the Off-Broadway Atlantic Theatre Company production. The musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and book by Itamar Moses, 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.[13] For his performance, he won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also appeared as Walter Franz in the 2017 Broadway revival of The Price.[14]
=== 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 Thirteen 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, also a Lebanese American, suffered discrimination after terrorist attacks in New York City.[15] 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.[16]
=== 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 detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Shalhoub was nominated for an Emmy Award[17] 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.[18]
=== 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.
=== 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.[19]
=== 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.[20] 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 and 2017 sequels, Cars 2 and Cars 3, respectively. Shalhoub voiced Splinter in the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and reprised the role in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.[21]
== 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 	Originally a substantial part that was cut before release
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 	
1993	Searching for Bobby Fischer 	Chess Club Member 	
1994	I.Q. 	Bob Rosetti 	
1996	Big Night 	Primo 	
1997	A Life Less Ordinary 	Al 	
1997	Gattaca 	German 	
1997	Men in Black 	Jack Jeebs 	
1998	A Civil Action 	Kevin Conway 	
1998	The Siege 	Agent Frank Haddad 	
1998	The Impostors 	Voltri, First Mate 	
1998	Paulie 	Misha Belenkoff 	
1998	Primary Colors 	Eddie Reyes 	
1999	Galaxy Quest 	Fred Kwan 	
1999	The Tic Code 	Phil 	
2001	Thirteen Ghosts 	Arthur Kriticos 	
2001	The Man Who Wasn't There 	Freddy Riedenschneider 	
2001	Spy Kids 	Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion	
2002	Life or Something Like It 	Prophet Jack 	
2002	Made-Up 	Max Hires 	Also directed
2002	Impostor 	Nelson Gittes 	
2002	Men in Black II 	Jack Jeebs 	
2002	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 	Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion	
2003	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 	Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion	
2003	Party Animals 	Celebrity Father 	
2003	T for Terrorist 	Man in White Suit 	
2003	Something More 	Mr. Avery 	
2004	The Last Shot 	Tommy Sanz 	
2004	Against the Ropes 	Sam LaRocca 	
2005	The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie 	Himself 	
2005	The Great New Wonderful 	Dr. Trabulous 	
2006	Cars 	Luigi 	Voice role
2007	Careless 	Mr. Roth 	
2007	AmericanEast 	Sam 	
2007	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"
2013	Pain & Gain 	Victor Kershaw 	
2014	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 	Master Splinter 	Voice role
2016	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	Master Splinter 	Voice role
2016	Custody 	Jason Schulman 	
2016	The Assignment 	Dr. Ralph Galen 	
2017	Breakable You 	Adam Weller 	
2017	Final Portrait 	Diego Giacometti 	
2017	Cars 3 	Luigi 	Voice role
2018	Rosy 	Dr. Godin 	
=== 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
1989 	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"
1995 	The X-Files 	Dr. Chester Ray Banton	Episode: "Soft Light"
1996 	Radiant City 	Narrator 	Movie
1996 	Frasier 	Manu Habib 	Episode: "The Focus Group"
1996 	Almost Perfect 	Alex Thorpe 	Episode: "Auto Neurotic"
1999 	That Championship Season 	George Sitkowski 	Movie
1999 	Ally McBeal 	Albert Shepley 	Episode: "Those Lips, That Hand"
1999–2000 	Stark Raving Mad 	Ian Stark 	22 episodes
2000 	MADtv 	Taxi Cab Driver
Himself	2 episodes
2001 	The Heart Department 	Dr. Joseph Nassar 	Movie
2002–2009 	Monk 	Adrian Monk 	Lead role (125 episodes)
2011 	Too Big To Fail 	John Mack 	Movie
2011 	Five 	Mitch Taylor 	Movie
2012 	Hemingway & Gellhorn 	Koltsov 	Movie
2013 	We Are Men 	Frank Russo 	7 episodes
2015 	Nurse Jackie 	Dr. Bernard Prince 	8 episodes
2016 	The Blacklist 	Alistair Pitt 	Episode: "Alistair Pitt (No. 103)"
2016 	BrainDead 	Red Wheatus 	Main role (13 episodes)
2017–present	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Abe Weissman 	18 episodes
== Awards and nominations ==
Year	Association 	Category 	Work 	Result
1992	Tony Awards 	Best Featured Actor in a Play 	Conversations with My Father 	Nominated
1996	National Society of Film Critics	Best Supporting Actor 	Big Night 	Won
1996	Independent Spirit Awards 	Best Male Lead 	Big Night 	Nominated
1996	New York Film Critics Circle 	Best Supporting Actor 	Big Night 	3rd place
2001	Chicago Film Critics Association	Best Supporting Actor 	The Man Who Wasn't There 	Nominated
2001	Online Film Critics Society 	Best Supporting Actor 	The Man Who Wasn't There 	Nominated
2002	Golden Globe Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Won
2003	Golden Globe Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2002	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Won
2003	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Won
2003	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk and the Airplane") 	Won
2003	Satellite Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2003	TCA Awards 	Individual Achievement in Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2004	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk Goes to the Theater")	Nominated
2004	Golden Globe Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2004	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Won
2005	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk Takes His Medicine") 	Won
2005	Satellite Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2006	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head") 	Won
2006	Golden Globe Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2006	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Nominated
2007	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink") 	Nominated
2007	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Nominated
2008	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk and the Naked Man") 	Nominated
2008	Golden Globe Awards 	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy 	Monk 	Nominated
2008	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Nominated
2009	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk and the Miracle") 	Nominated
2009	Screen Actors Guild 	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk 	Nominated
2010	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series 	Monk (episode: "Mr. Monk and the End") 	Nominated
2013	Drama Desk Awards 	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play 	Golden Boy 	Nominated
2013	Tony Awards 	Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play 	Golden Boy 	Nominated
2014	Tony Awards 	Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play 	Act One 	Nominated
2018	Tony Awards 	Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical 	The Band's Visit 	Won
2018	Drama League Award 	Distinguished Performance 	The Band's Visit 	Nominated
2018	Primetime Emmy Awards 	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series 	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel 	Nominated