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Anthony Marc Shalhoub ( ; ; born October 9, 1953) is an American actor. He is known for a variety of roles ranging from comedic to dramatic on stage and screen. He has received several accolades including five Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, six Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Tony Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.
His breakout role was as Antonio Scarpacci on the NBC sitcom Wings from 1991 to 1997. He later starred as Adrian Monk in the USA Network series Monk (2002–2009), winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. For his supporting role as Abe Weissman, a professor turned activist and critic in the Amazon period comedy-drama The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–2023), he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.
Shalhoub has starred in films such as Quick Change (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Big Night (1996), Men in Black (1997), Gattaca (1997), Paulie (1998), The Siege (1998), Galaxy Quest (1999), Spy Kids, Thirteen Ghosts, and The Man Who Wasn't There (all 2001). He has voice acting for the Cars franchise (2006-present), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), (2016) and Rumble (2021).
On stage, he made his Broadway debut in a revival of The Odd Couple (1985). He went on to win the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band's Visit (2018). He was Tony-nominated for his performances in the Herb Gardner play Conversations with My Father (1992), the Clifford Odets play Golden Boy (2013), and the James Lapine play Act One (2014).
His father, Joseph, was from Zahle, Lebanon while it was still part of the Ottoman Empire and immigrated to the United States as a child after his own parents, Milhem and Mariam, died during World War I.Stated on Finding Your Roots. February 9, 2021. After immigrating to America, Joseph became a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck.
Joseph married Shalhoub's mother, Helen Seroogy, a Lebanese American. The two met when Joseph 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 Lebanese, was reportedly killed by being crucified in 1895 during the Hamidian massacres committed against Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
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 Green Bay East High School, he spent a short time at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay before participating in the National Student Exchange to the University of Southern Maine 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.
After playing several small television and film roles Shalhoub landed the role of cab driver Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom Wings which he played from 1991 to 1997. 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.
Shalhoub also made guest appearances on other shows. In 1995, he played the lead role of physicist Dr. Chester Ray Banton in The X-Files second-season episode "Soft Light", the first episode written by Vince Gilligan. The following year, he had a role in the hit NBC sitcom Frasier in the episode "The Focus Group" as an Arab newsstand owner named Manu Habbib. His first two voiceover credits were as Emir in one episode of the Disney animated series Gargoyles (1995), and Aradesh in the original Fallout (1997) in his only non-Cars related video game credit. Film roles following his Wings breakout included an excitable producer consulted by John Turturro's character in Barton Fink (1991) and a fast-talking lawyer in The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) (both directed by the Coen brothers). Other early roles included a linguistically unidentified cabby in Quick Change (1991), a concierge in Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), a drunken sailor in Addams Family Values (1993), a Cuban-American businessman in Primary Colors (1998), sleazy alien pawn shop owner Jack Jeebs in the Men in Black films (1997–2002), an attorney in A Civil Action (1998), a widowed father in Thirteen Ghosts (2001), a cameo role in the film Gattaca (1997), a Russian immigrant in the film Paulie (1998), and a has-been television star who falls in love with an actual space alien, in the satire film Galaxy Quest (1999).
In his first major film role, Shalhoub co-starred in the film Big Night (1996), as one in a pair of Italian immigrant brothers who own a struggling ethnic restaurant. He 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. 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 canceled the series in 2000.
Shalhoub returned in December 2006 to the Off-Broadway Second Stage Theatre, opposite Patricia Heaton for a run of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck. 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. Shalhoub played Alexander "Alex" Minion in the first three Spy Kids films (2001–2003). 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. He received a 2008 Grammy nomination in the category "Best Spoken Word Album for Children" for his narration of The Cricket in Times Square. 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, as well as 3 episodes of the short-form Cars series Tales from Radiator Springs (2013–2014) and the first episode of Cars on the Road (2022), and several video games in the franchise (2006–2011).
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. 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.
He played the character of Fred in the 2021 animated film, Rumble, and reprised his role as Adrian Monk in in 2023.
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, whom Shalhoub adopted. In 1994, they adopted another daughter.
| 1986 | Heartburn | Airplane Passenger | Some scenes cut |
| 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 | |
| Searching for Bobby Fischer | Chess Club Member | ||
| 1994 | I.Q. | Bob Rosetti | |
| 1996 | 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 | |
| The Tic Code | Phil | ||
| 2001 | Thirteen Ghosts | Arthur Kriticos | |
| The Man Who Wasn't There | Freddy Riedenschneider | ||
| Spy Kids | Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion | ||
| 2002 | Life or Something Like It | Prophet Jack | |
| Made-Up | Max Hires | Also director | |
| Impostor | Nelson Gittes | ||
| Men in Black II | Jack Jeebs | ||
| Mr. Alexander "Alex" Minion | |||
| 2003 | |||
| Party Animals | Celebrity Father | ||
| T for Terrorist | Man in White Suit | ||
| Something More | Mr. Avery | ||
| 2004 | The Last Shot | Tommy Sanz | |
| Against the Ropes | Sam LaRocca | ||
| 2005 | Himself | ||
| The Great New Wonderful | Dr. Trabulous | ||
| 2006 | Cars | Luigi (voice) | A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. |
| 2007 | Careless | Mr. Roth | |
| AmericanEast | Sam | ||
| 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) | |
| 2013 | Movie 43 | George | Deleted sketch |
| Pain & Gain | Victor Kershaw | ||
| 2014 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Master Splinter (voice) | |
| 2016 | |||
| Custody | Jason Schulman | ||
| The Assignment | Dr. Ralph Galen | ||
| 2017 | Breakable You | Adam Weller | |
| Final Portrait | Diego Giacometti | ||
| Cars 3 | Luigi (voice) | ||
| They Shall Not Perish | Karnig Parnian | ||
| 2018 | Rosy | Dr. Godin | |
| 2021 | Rumble | Fred (voice) | |
| 2022 | Linoleum | Dr. Alvin | |
| 2023 | Flamin' Hot | Roger Enrico | |
| Play Dirty | Post-production |
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| 1986 | The Equalizer | Terrorist | Episode: "Breakpoint" |
| 1987 | Dr. Hambrecht | Episode: "The Road Back" | |
| 1988 | Alone in the Neon Jungle | Nahid | Television film |
| 1989 | Money, Power, Murder | Seth Parker | |
| Day One | Enrico Fermi | ||
| 1991 | Monsters | Mancini | Episode: "Leavings" |
| 1991–1997 | Wings | Antonio Scarpacci | 144 episodes |
| 1992 | Dinosaurs | Jerry (voice) | Episode: "Fran Live" |
| 1993 | Gypsy | Uncle Jocko | Television film |
| 1995 | Gargoyles | The Emir (voice) | Episode: "Grief" |
| The X-Files | Dr. Chester Ray Banton | Episode: "Soft Light" | |
| 1996 | Radiant City | Narrator | Television film |
| Frasier | Manu Habib | Episode: "The Focus Group" | |
| Almost Perfect | Alex Thorpe | Episode: "Auto Neurotic" | |
| 1997 | Jack Jeebs (voice) | 2 episodes | |
| 1999 | That Championship Season | George Sitkowski | Television film |
| 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 | Television film |
| 2002–2009 | Monk | Adrian Monk | Lead role (125 episodes) |
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail | John Mack | Television film |
| Five | Mitch Taylor | ||
| 2012 | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Koltsov | |
| 2013 | We Are Men | Frank Russo | 7 episodes |
| 2013–2014 | Luigi (voice) | 3 episodes | |
| 2015 | Nurse Jackie | Dr. Bernard Prince | 8 episodes |
| 2016 | The Blacklist | Alistair Pitt | Episode: "Alistair Pitt (No. 103)" |
| BrainDead | Red Wheatus | Main role (13 episodes) | |
| 2017–2023 | The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel | Abe Weissman | 43 episodes |
| 2017 | Mickey and the Roadster Racers | Luigi (voice) | Episode: "Roaming Around Rome" |
| 2019–2020 | Elena of Avalor | Zopilote (voice) | 6 episodes |
| 2020 | Peacock Presents: The At-Home Variety Show Featuring Seth MacFarlane | Adrian Monk | Episode: "Monk in Quarantine" |
| 2020–2022 | Central Park | Marvin (voice) | 7 episodes |
| 2022 | Cars on the Road | Luigi (voice) | Episode: "Dino Park" |
| 2023 | The Company You Keep | Frankie Musso | 2 episodes |
| Adrian Monk | Television film |
| American Repertory Theater |
| Paddle Wheel/Boss/Horse |
| Ferdinand/Casti-Piani |
| Wesley |
| Figaro |
| Alcidas/Lélie/Leandre |
| Pandalevski/Bizmionkov |
| Spear |
| Solyony |
| Pozzo |
| Sergeant |
| Father/Voice of Psychologist |
| Joseph Surface |
| Angelo |
| The Son |
| Mr. Kempler/Ari |
| Broadhurst Theatre |
| Shakespeare in the Park |
| Poins/Sir Richard Vernon |
| The Public Theater |
| Classic Stage Company |
| The Public Theater |
| Plymouth Theatre |
| Royale Theatre |
| American Repertory Theater |
| Second Stage Theatre |
| Music Box Theatre |
| Belasco Theatre |
| Vivian Beaumont Theatre |
| Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater |
| The Flea Theater |
| Atlantic Theater Company |
| American Airlines Theatre |
| Ethel Barrymore Theatre |
| Atlantic Theater Company |
| 1997 | Aradesh | |
| 2006 | Cars | Luigi |
| 2007 | Cars Mater-National Championship | |
| 2009 | Cars Race-O-Rama | |
| 2011 | Cars 2 |
| 2003–09 | Monk | 125 episodes |
| 2005 | Mush | Short film |
| 2009 | Pet Peeves | |
| Feed the Fish |
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