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Tony Shalhoub
Anthony Marcus Shalhoub
(born October 9, 1953 in Green Bay, Wisconsin)
All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.
Tony Shalhoub
Tony is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show Monk in which he plays an obsessive compulsive private detective. Shalhoub won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series in 2003 and in 2005 for the role, as well as a Golden Globe in 2003 and a SAG Award in 2004 and 2005.
One of his first television roles was as 'Antonio' in the long-running sitcom Wings (TV series), which also starred Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard, Oscar nominee Thomas Haden Church, and Rebecca Schull. The role was actually Shalhoub's first audition when he arrived in Los Angeles, and he was pleasantly surprised to land the role.
Shalhoub is married to the movie actress Brooke Adams, and is the brother-in-law of former Guiding Light actress Lynne Adams.
Shalhoub's father's family is from Lebanon and the American Midwest. Tony was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten. He later married Shalhoub's mother, a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family company from the humble start of one grocery store in the center of Green Bay. Tony graduated with a bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine in Portland, and earned a masters degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980. Shortly thereafter, he moved to Cambridge where he spent four seasons with the American Repertory theater before heading to New York City, where he found work waiting tables as well as on Broadway. His role in Conversations With My Father earned him a Tony nomination, and in another Broadway production he would meet his future wife.
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 runner-ups are also invited to participate in the production.
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Tony is from Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Two daughters Josie Lynn (b. 1988 - wife Brooke Adams' adopted daughter prior to marriage, whom Tony later adopted), and Sophie (b. 1993), adopted by the couple after they married.
Cousin of famous Chicago/LA radio personality Jonathon Brandmeier.
Attended college at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine.
Sister-in-law is Lynne Adams.
Graduated from USM in 1977.
Keynote speaker at the University of Southern Maine graduation in 2003, his alma mater
Brother of actor Michael Shalhoub, Susan Shalhoub Larkin and Dan Shalhoub.
Has worked both with the Coen Brothers (Barton Fink (1991), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)) and their former cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld (Addams Family Values (1993), Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002)).
His family left Lebanon because of the civil war.
Was nominated for Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for Herb Gardner's "Conversations with My Father."
Spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Was the best man at Patricia Heaton's marriage to David Hunt. He knew David pre-Patricia.
In 2005, upon winning his second Emmy for "Monk" (2002), he told his fellow nominees that "there's always next year". Ironically, Shalhoub was the only one of the five actors to be nominated the next year.
Is a huge fan of the NFL's Green Bay Packers and holds season tickets.
When Shalhoub won the Emmy in 2003 for his leading role of detective Adrian Monk, he dedicated the award to his nephew, 34-year-old Gregg Gensler of Green Bay, who died a day earlier.
Is the second youngest of 10 children of the late Joseph and Helen Shalhoub of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Nominated for a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for "The Cricket in Times Square".
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Tony Shalhoub attended Yale University, where his friend, Jane Kaczmarek, followed him to after he had encouraged her to shoot for stardom. They had met earlier when both attended the University of Wisconsin.
And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.
I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.
I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.
I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano.
With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.
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