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Tony Shalhoub Biography

Tony Shalhoub (Anthony Marcus Shalhoub) is an American actor whose television works include Antonio Scarpacci in NBC sitcom Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the USA TV series Monk. For the TV series Monk, 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 also three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

Tony has also had a successful film career as a character actor,his roles in films includes 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 also Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014).

For Tony’s work on the Broadway stage, he has received four Tony nominations, his first being Best Featured Actor in a Play for Conversations with My Father in 1992. His following nominations included Golden Boy (2013) and Act One (2014), before he won the 2018 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band’s Visit. He also plays Abe Weissman, the father of the title character, on Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Tony Shalhoub Education

Tony attended Green Bay East High School, suffering a setback in his senior year by breaking his leg in a fall off the stage into the pit during a rehearsal. Tony was able to perform in the school’s final play of the year after recovering quickly.

Tony earned a bachelor’s degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine after a short time at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. In 1980, he earned a master’s degree from the Yale School of Drama.

Tony Shalhoub Age | How Old Is Tony Shalhoub?

Anthony Marcus Shalhoub was born on October 9, 1953 in Green Bay, Wisconsin, U.S. He is 65 years old as of 2018.

What Nationality Is Tony Shalhoub?

Shalhoub is an American.

Tony Shalhoub Ethnicity

Tony has a  Lebanese-American ethnicity from his maternal side.

Tony Shalhoub Family

Tony was born the ninth of ten children being raised in a Maronite Christian family in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Tony’s father Joe, was from Lebanon and also emigrated to the United States as an orphan at the age of eight. Joe was a meat peddler who bought his meat in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and sold it to stores in the region. He drove a refrigerated truck. He married Shalhoub’s mother, Helen (née Seroogy), a second-generation Lebanese-American.

Tony Shalhoub Siblings

Tony has six sisters and two brothers; Michael Shalhoub, Susan Shalhoub Larkin, Jane Shalhoub, Deborah Shalhoub-Landin, Dan Shalhoub, Maggie Shalhoub, Sherry Matzdorff, Bill Shalhoub, and Amy Shalhoub

Tony Shalhoub Brother

His brother Michael Shalhoub is also an actor and has made multiple guest appearances on Monk. His brother first appears in “Mr. Monk and also the Missing Granny”, as a member of a disbanded radical group suspected of involvement in a kidnapping. In “Mr. Monk Bumps His Head”, he then plays a Wyoming beekeeper who is annoyed when a suspect then crashes a car into his farm. Shalhoub also appears in “Mr. Monk Is the Best Man” as the minister presiding at Leland Stottlemeyer’s wedding.

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Tony married actress Brooke Adams in 1992 with whom they have also worked togetherv in several films, one episode of Wings, and on BrainDead. Brooke has also 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”

The couple appeared on Broadway together in the 2010 revival of Lend Me a Tenor.

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Adams had adopted a daughter Josie Lynn (born 1989) at the time of their wedding, whom Tony then adopted. Adams and Tony adopted another daughter, Sophie (born 1993).

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Tony was introduced to acting by his older sister who put his name forward to be an extra in a high school production of The King and I.

After graduating from Yale, Tony moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent four seasons there with the American Repertory Theater before heading to New York City, where he then found work waiting tables while honing his craft and also auditioning.

Tony Shalhoub Broadway

Shalhoub made his Broadway debut in the 1985 Rita Moreno/Sally Struthers production of The Odd Couple and was also nominated for a 1992 Tony Award for his featured role in Conversations with My Father.

He returned in December 2006 to the Off-Broadway Second Stage Theatre, opposite Patricia Heaton for a run of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck. Tony went to Broadway to act as Saunders in a revival version of Lend Me a Tenor in New York at the Music Box Theatre in 2010.

He was also 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 which was at the Belasco Theatre. Shalhoub 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. Tony and his wife Adams appeared in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days in June and July, 2015 in New York City.

Tony Shalhoub Wings

One of Tony’s first television roles was in 1991 as the cabdriver Antonio Scarpacci in the sitcom Wings. He was pleasantly surprised to land the role after having a guest appearance in the second season. He affected an Italian accent for the role. At the same time period, he played physicist Dr. Chester Ray Banton in The X-Files second-season episode “Soft Light”

Tony Shalhoub Men In Black | Tony Shalhoub MIB

In the film Men in Black (1997), Shalhoub played Jeebs the pawnshop owner who is an alien disguised as human.

Tony Shalhoub Monk

Tony starred in another TV series, Monk. Airing on the USA Network, the series featured him as Adrian Monk, a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Tony was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in eight consecutive years from 2003 to 2010, winning in 2003, 2005, and also 2006. Shalhoub also took the Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, in 2003.

Tony Shalhoub Spy Kids

Tony plays Alexander Minion in the 2001 spy adventure comedy film.

Tony Shalhoub New Show

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Tony Shalhoub Maisel

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

Tony Shalhoub Net Worth

The Monk star has an estimated net worth of $30 million.

Tony Shalhoub Dead

Shalhoub is still alive and goes on with his acting career.

Tony Shalhoub Religion | Tony Shalhoub Jewish

Shalhoub family are Maronites therefore belonging to the Christian sect of Syrian origin under the Roman Catholic Church doctrine.

Tony Shalhoub Height | How Tall Is Tony Shalhoub?

The Monk star stands at a height of 1.77 m.

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Tony Shalhoub Interview

Published: November 13, 2017

Source: www.newyorktheatreguide.com

How was Opening Night for you, Mr. Shalhoub?

You know Opening Nights are always a little wonky, but there was so much love in that audience tonight. Oddly, half the audience have seen the show more than three or four times, but that’s OK. They were very warm and very receptive. We’ve been previewing for a long time – about four weeks – and so we’re kind of relieved now to have this part of it over with. Now, starting tomorrow night, we can just move on with the run and try and grow in it and discover more. And it would be so much fun to do this show in London, when we’re done in New York.

You mentioned that a few of the theatregoers have seen this show a few times already. I’m sure some of them saw it downtown at the Atlantic Theater Company. Did you always have a hunch that it would transfer from off-Broadway and you’d end up celebrating an Opening Night on Broadway?

Well, we always had the hope, but I wouldn’t call it a hunch. I’ve been in this business long enough to know not to bet on anything. But we all trusted in the director and the producer because Orin Wolf – who is the commercial producer – he was always a part of it, even downtown. So his vision was always to develop it and nurture it and sweeten it and then move it up. We just didn’t have any guarantee of that. We all silently hoped, but didn’t wish too hard.

When I watched the show, I loved the Middle Eastern influences with the score and scenic design, but I also felt you could pick the story up and drop it somewhere in England in the middle of nowhere or likewise, somewhere in Africa or South America…

Yes, I agree! That’s what I really love about this piece. Even though the setting is the Middle East, it really could be any two groups of people that had past friction or tension. They’re strangers, but not really sure why they’re adversarial. I think you’re right. I think it fits everywhere.

And your character of Tewfiq has both gravitas and humility – and a wonderful accent and mannerisms to boot. What went into his creation?

Well, that’s a long story. First of all, there’s the original film of The Band’s Visit – not a musical version. So, there’s that template, although I tried not to study that too much. The writer and director gave me the shape and breadth of this thing and I tried to relate it to people I knew when I was growing up. I grew up in a Lebanese-American household. I drew on those kind of characters and it just kinda happened.

Throughout the musical, I had this contradictory feeling that on the one hand, nothing is happening, and on the other hand, everything that could happen in life, is happening. How do you explain that?

(Laughs) Yes! I’ve heard that before. When you try to describe the story, there aren’t really any huge events. It’s more like a slice-of-life kinda thing. But there are seismic changes internally to all of these characters. All of these characters, when we meet them, are kind of stuck or in some sort of state of paralysis, you might say, in their lives or emotional lives or in their situation. Yet somehow, as they reach out to ‘the other’, all of these changes occur. By the time we get to the end of the story, I think the audience feels that the characters have gone through a massive change.