Tony Shalhoub movies

He is currently the star and executive producer of the USA Network television show Monk in which he plays an obsessive-compulsive detective who is often called on by the San Francisco Police Department to solve crimes no one else can. Before he played Adrian Monk, he was also well known for his role as the Italian cabdriver, Antonio Scarpacci, on the NBC television series Wings, on which he played the role from 1991 to 1997.BiographyEarly lifeShalhoub was born Anthony Marcus Shalhoub in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was raised. His father, Joe Shalhoub, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten.

He later married Shalhoubs mother, Helen, a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family company from the humble start of one grocery store in the center of Green Bay. His family were Maronite Christians, some of whom left Lebanon. Tony Shalhoubs brothers and sisters introduced him to the theater. When Tony was just six years old, one of his elder sisters volunteered her little brother to play an extra in a high school production of "The King and I." Even though the young Tony was left standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became hooked to the theater. Tony graduated from Green Bay East High School, with his senior peers finding him the best dressed and most likely to succeed. He then graduated with a bachelors degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, and earned a masters degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.The stageShortly thereafter, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theatre before heading to New York City, where he found work waiting tables while honing his craft and auditioning.

Tony Shalhoub Movies

All movies starring Tony Shalhoub.

• 1408
• A Civil Action
• A Life Less Ordinary
• Barton Fink
• Cars
• Galaxy Quest
• Impostor
• Life or Something Like It
• Men in Black
• Men in Black II
• The Adventures of Beatle Boyin