Wallace Shawn

BirthDate BirthPlace	11/11/1943 New York, NY

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As a child, staged musical puppet shows with his brother, Allen, for their parents and friends.
First appeared on stage in the 1977 production of his translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Mandrake.
Our Late Night, the first play he wrote that was produced, was initially booed by Off-Broadway audiences but went on to win the Obie award in 1975; later won Obies for 1986's Aunt Dan a
Son of William Shawn, the legendary editor of The New Yorker.
Before breaking into acting, taught drama and Latin at the Trevor Day School in New York City.
Big-screen debut was in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Manhattan (1979); his best-known film role, in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, followed in 1987.