Tony Shalhoub
Although this Yale-trained character actor never lacked for work, Shalhoub was almost 50 when the TV series Monk finally made him a star. Early in his career, he honed his craft on stage, forging impo...
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10/08/1953
Green Bay, WI |
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| Made his TV debut in The Equalizer in 1986. |
| Met future wife Brooke Adams while acting together on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles. |
| One of ten children. |
| On his Emmy-winning role in Monk: "I spend so many more of my waking hours as Monk than I do as myself," he told TV GUIDE Online in 2002, "that I'm afraid a little of him is starting to rub off |
| Directed and appeared in the 2002 feature Made-Up, which starred his wife and was written by his sister-in-law, Lynne Adams. |
| Was 6 when his sister volunteered him as an extra in a high-school production of The King and I. |
