Tony Shalhoub

One of Shalhoub's maternal great-great-grandfathers, Abdul Naimy, although Lebanese, was reportedly killed by being crucified in 1895 during the Hamidian massacres committed against Christian Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Shalhoub was introduced to acting by an older sister, who put his name forward to be an extra in a high-school production of The King and I.

After graduating from Green Bay East High School, he spent a short time at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay before participating in the National Student Exchange to the University of Southern Maine where he later transferred and earned a bachelor's degree.

Joe married Shalhoub's mother, Helen Seroogy (1910-1983), a Lebanese American.

The two met when Joe was taken in to be raised by her family, when both were young.

The Seroogy family operated a candy store that remains a family business.

His father, Joseph (1912–1991), was from Zahle while it was still part of the Ottoman Empire and immigrated to the United States as a child after his own parents, Milhem and Mariam, died during World War I.

After immigrating to America, Joe Shalhoub became a meat peddler who drove a refrigerated truck.

Anthony Marc Shalhoub (born October 9, 1953) is an American actor.

He later went on to earn a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.

Shortly after graduating from Yale, Shalhoub moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theater before heading to New York City, where he found work waiting tables.

He made his Broadway debut in the 1985 Rita Moreno/Sally Struthers production of The Odd Couple and was nominated for a 1992 Tony Award for his featured role in Conversations with My Father.

Shalhoub met his wife, actress Brooke Adams, when they co-starred on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles.

Shalhoub has had a successful film career, with roles in films such as Quick Change (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Big Night (1996), Men in Black (1997), Gattaca (1997), Paulie (1998), The Siege (1998), Galaxy Quest (1999), Spy Kids, Thirteen Ghosts, and The Man Who Wasn't There (all 2001).

His breakout role was as Antonio Scarpacci on the sitcom Wings from 1991 to 1997.

After playing several small television and film roles Shalhoub landed the role of cab driver Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom Wings which he played from 1991 to 1997.

Shalhoub was pleasantly surprised to land the role after having a guest appearance as a waiter in the second season.

He became a regular in the third season.

The character's name was kept, but the character's occupation changed to a cab driver.

He affected an Italian accent for the role.

Shalhoub played the role from 1991 until the series ended in 1997.

In the same time period, Shalhoub played the lead role of physicist Dr. Chester Ray Banton in The X-Files second-season episode "Soft Light", the first episode written by Vince Gilligan.

Banton's shadow becomes lethal after Banton gets stuck in a particle accelerator, causing him to accidentally destroy anyone close to him, after which the government imprisons and tortures him in an effort to weaponize his superpower.

Shalhoub's film roles following his Wings breakout included an excitable producer consulted by John Turturro's character in Barton Fink and a fast-talking lawyer in The Man Who Wasn't There (both directed by the Coen brothers), a linguistically unidentified cabby in Quick Change, a Cuban-American businessman in Primary Colors, sleazy alien pawn shop owner Jack Jeebs in the Men in Black films, an attorney in A Civil Action, a widowed father in Thirteen Ghosts, a cameo role in the film Gattaca, and a has-been television star who falls in love with an actual space alien, in the Star Trek: TOS satire film Galaxy Quest.

Shalhoub had a co-starring role in the film Big Night, as one in a pair of Italian immigrant brothers who own a struggling ethnic restaurant.

Other Tony-nominated roles were in Conversations with My Father in 1992, Golden Boy in 2013, and Act One in 2014.

Anthony Marc Shalhoub (أنتوني مارك شلهوب), the ninth of ten children, was born and raised in a Lebanese Maronite household in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

In 1995 he had a role in the hit NBC sitcom Frasier in the episode "The Focus Group" as an Arab newsstand owner named Manu Habbib.

He did voice acting for the 1997 computer game Fallout.

In 1998 Shalhoub starred in The Classic Stage Company's production of Waiting for Godot alongside John Turturro and Christopher Lloyd.

Shalhoub demonstrated his dramatic range in the 1998 big-budget thriller The Siege, where he co-starred alongside Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, and Bruce Willis.

His character, FBI Special Agent Frank Haddad, also a Lebanese American, suffered discrimination after terrorist attacks in New York City.

He returned to series television in 1999, this time in a lead role on Stark Raving Mad, opposite Neil Patrick Harris.

The show failed to attract an audience and NBC canceled the series in 2000.

After a three-year absence from the small screen, Shalhoub starred in another TV series, Monk.

Airing on the USA Network, the series featured Shalhoub as Adrian Monk, a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He later starred as Adrian Monk in the USA Network series Monk from 2002 to 2009, earning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.

For his supporting role as Abe Weissman on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

He has also provided voice work for the Cars franchise (2006–2022), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016).

For his work on Broadway, Shalhoub won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band's Visit in 2018.