Anthony Marcus Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is a Lebanese-American actor best known for his work as a character actor in film and television. Born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Shalhoub's acting career started as an extra in a high school production of The King and I, and he instantly fell in love with acting. He later earned a bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine, and a master's from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.
He continued in theater productions such as The Odd Couple and Conversations With My Father, as well as bit parts in movies and television, but in 1991 he found a wider audience when he joined the regular cast of Wings. Since then he has enjoyed a solid status as That Guy You Recognize But Can't Name in dozens of smaller film and television roles, though his pseudo-anonymity arguably ended when he took the starring role in Monk. He has been nominated for and won a wide range of awards for his work, and has even lent his vocal talents to a handful of video games.
Films with TV Tropes pages:
- Quick Change (1990)
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Gypsy (1993)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
- IQ (1994)
- Big Night (1996)
- Gattaca (1997)
- Men in Black (1997)
- A Civil Action (1998)
- The Impostors (1998)
- The Siege (1998)
- Paulie (1998)
- Primary Colors (1998)
- Galaxy Quest (1999)
- That Championship Season (1999)
- Thir13en Ghosts (2001)
- The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
- Spy Kids (2001)
- Impostor (2002)
- Men in Black II (2002)
- Life or Something Like It (2002)
- Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
- Against the Ropes (2004)
- Cars (2006)
- 1408 (2007)
- Cars 2 (2011)
- Too Big to Fail (2011)
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
- Movie 43 (2013)
- Pain & Gain (2013)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016)
- Cars 3 (2017)
- Rumble (2021)
Television Series with TV Tropes pages:
- The Equalizer
- Spenser For Hire
- Monsters
- Wings
- Dinosaurs
- Gargoyles
- The X-Files
- Frasier
- Men in Black: The Series (Season 1 only)
- Ally McBeal
- Stark Raving Mad
- MA Dtv
- Monk
- Nurse Jackie
- The Blacklist
- BrainDead (2016)
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Mickey and the Roadster Racers
- Elena of Avalor
- Central Park
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Tropes associated with Tony Shalhoub:
- The Everyman: Has tended to play quirky versions of this, especially since Monk.
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Hilarious in Hindsight: His role as Ian Stark, a horror writer frustrated over his friend's neurotic and obsessive compulsive behaviour is ironic considering his later role as Adrian Monk. - Plays Great Ethnics: Shalhoub's Lebanese heritage has allowed him to play a wide range of ethnicities, from a Vaguely Foreign immigrant taxi driver in Quick Change, to actual Lebanese in The Siege, to Italian in Big Night & Wings, to Vaguely Foreign With a Chinese Name in Galaxy Quest.
