Tony Shalhoub
Tony Shalhoub
Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoubis an American actor from Lebanese origins. His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci in Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the TV series Monk, for which he has won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series and three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth9 October 1953
CityGreen Bay, WI
CountryUnited States of America
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
Monk is such an irritating and annoying character, I think everyone relates to that at some point.
She's like Judy Holliday with a real edge.
Here is a man who is trying to do the right thing -- who finds himself in a situation where he is actually part of a system that's not doing the right thing.
The first time, there's like a rush of wind and you can't really say anything. You're speaking, but you don't know how the words are coming out.
I've sort of been able to expand the playing field a little bit, I think it's long overdue. But I still feel like I have a lot of dragons to slay as an actor and I want to keep doing that,
I ended up in some pretty bizarre places. One night, it was Salinas, Kansas. . . . I sort of wandered into this little hotel and they let me sleep in the lobby.
I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.
My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are--I'm not that familiar with their work--I just want to say, there's always next year--except, you know, for Ray Romano ,