Tony Shalhoub
Milestones
- Birthplace: Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
- Birthday: October 9, 1953
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2009
Nominated for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in Comedy Series
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2008
Earned a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word for the children's album The Cricket In Times Square
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2007
Cast as John Cusack’s literary agent in "1408"
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2007
Played Charlie in the Off-broadway production of "The Scene"
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2004
Feature directorial debut, ""Made Up"; also co-starred with wife Brooke Adams in the film based on a one woman play
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2002
Reprised role of Jeebs, the sleazy alien pawn shop owner for "Men in Black II"
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2002 to 0000
Returned to series TV playing an obsessive/compulsive detective in the USA Network series "Monk"; received SAG (2003, 2007, 2008, 2009), Golden Globe (2004, 2005, 2007, 2009) and Emmy (2004, 2007, 2008, 2009) nominations for Best Actor in a Comedy Series
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2001
Featured as a slick, big-city lawyer in the Coen brothers' "The Man Who Wasn't There"
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2001
Played a widowed father in "Thir13en Ghosts"
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1999
Played a has-been television star in "Galaxy Quest"
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1999 to 2000
Returned to series television, co-starring with Neil Patrick Harris in NBC's "Stark Raving Mad"
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1998
Appeared Off-Broadway, opposite John Turturro, in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"
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1998
Re-teamed with Stanley Tucci for his solo directing and writing debut, "The Impostors"
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1997
Played a sleazy alien pawn shop owner in "Men in Black"
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1997
Starred in three one-act plays by David Mamet at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA
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1996
Played an Italian-speaking chef in the directorial debut of Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott, "Big Night"
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1992
Garnered a Tony Award nomination for his featured role in Herb Gardner's "Conversations with My Father"
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1991 to 1997
Debut as a series regular, playing the Italian cabdriver Antonio Scarpacci on NBC's "Wings"
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1990
Film debut, playing a doctor in the AIDS themed "Longtime Companion"
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1990
Had a memorable role as a cab driver, opposite Bill Murray in "Quick Change"
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1988
Met future wife, actress Brooke Adams, when they co-starred on Broadway in "The Heidi Chronicles"
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1986
TV debut as a terrorist in an episode of "The Equalizer" (CBS)
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1985
Broadway debut in the Rita Moreno/Sally Struthers production of "The Odd Couple"
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Spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA