Early life

Shalhoub is the ninth of ten children, and was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joe, was from Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten. Joe married Shalhoub’s mother, Helen (née Seroogy), a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family grocery chain, starting with a store in downtown Green Bay.

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. Despite finding himself standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became enamored of 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 from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.

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.

Shalhoub returned in December 2006 to the Second Stage Theatre in New York, off-Broadway, opposite Patricia Heaton for a run of The Scene by Theresa Rebeck. 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 Vivian Beaumont Theatre.

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 Thir13en 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, was of Middle Eastern descent and 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 cancelled the series in 2000.

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 brilliant detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Shalhoub 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 2006. He also took the Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy, in 2003.

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.

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.

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. 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 sequel, Cars 2. Shalhoub voiced Splinter in the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Personal life

Shalhoub married actress Brooke Adams in 1992. They have worked together in several films, one episode of Wings, and 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 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
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 Vilyenkov
	Primary Colors	Eddie Reyes
1999	Galaxy Quest	Fred Kwan
	The Tic Code	Phil
2001	Thir13en Ghosts	Arthur Kriticos
	The Man Who Wasn't There	Freddy Riedenschneider
	Spy Kids	Alexander Minion
2002	Life or Something Like It	Prophet Jack
	Made-Up	Max Hires	Also directed
	Impostor	Nelson Gittes
	Men in Black II	Jack Jeebs
	Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams	Alexander Minion
2003	Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
	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	The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie	Himself
	The Great New Wonderful	Dr. Trabulous
2006	Cars	Luigi	Voice role
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 role
2012	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Koltsov
2013	Movie 43	George	Deleted sketch: "Find Our Daughter"
	Pain & Gain	Victor Kershaw
2014	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Master Splinter	Voice role
2016	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
	Tomboy, a Revenger's Tale	Dr. Ralph Galen	In post-production

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
	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"
	The X-Files	Dr. Chester Ray Banton	Episode: "Soft Light"
1996	Radiant City	Narrator	Movie
	Frasier	Manu Habib	Episode: "The Focus Group"
	Almost Perfect	Alex Thorpe	Episode: "Auto Neurotic"
1999	That Championship Season	George Sitkowski	Movie
	Ally McBeal	Albert Shepley	Episode: "Those Lips, That Hand"
1999-2000	Stark Raving Mad	Ian Stark	22 episodes
2000	MADtv	Taxi Cab Driver Himself	Episode 5.18 Episode 5.24
2001	The Heart Department	Dr. Joseph Nassar	Movie
2002-09	Monk	Adrian Monk	125 episodes
2011	Too Big To Fail	John Mack	Movie
	Five	Mitch Taylor	Movie
2013	We Are Men	Frank Russo	7 episodes
2015	Nurse Jackie	Dr. Bernard Prince	Season 7
2016	The Blacklist	Alistair Pitt	Episode: "Alistair Pitt (No. 103)"
	BrainDead	Red Wheatus	Filming

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
1997	Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game	Aradesh
2006	Cars	Luigi
2007	Cars Mater-National Championship
2009	Cars Race-O-Rama
2011	Cars 2

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
2003-09	Monk	125 episodes
2005	Mush	Short film
2009	Pet Peeves
	Feed the Fish

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Work	Result
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			Monk	Nominated
2002	Screen Actors Guild	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series	Monk	Won
2003			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
2003	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

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