Anthony Marcus Shalhoub (/ʃəlˈxuË b/ shÉ™l-HOOB; born October , )
is an American actor. He is widely recognized for his work as a
character actor, having won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€"
Television Series Musical or Comedy, six Screen Actors Guild Awards
and four Primetime Emmy Awards. For his work on Broadway, he has
received four Tony Award nominations, winning a Tony Award for Best
Actor in a Musical for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band's
Visit.His television work includes Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom
Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the USA TV series Monk. Shalhoub
currently plays Abe Weissman, the father of the title character, on
Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.He has also had a successful film
career, with roles in films such as Quick Change (), Barton Fink (),
Big Night (), Men in Black (), Paulie (), The Siege (), Galaxy Quest
(), Spy Kids, Thirteen Ghosts, The Man Who Wasn't There (all ) and
(). He has also provided voice-work for the Cars franchise (-),
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles () and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out
of the Shadows ().Shalhoub, the ninth of ten children, was born and
raised in an Arabic-speaking Maronite Christian family in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. His father, Joe, was from Lebanon and emigrated to the
United States as an orphan at the age of eight. He was a meat peddler
who drove a refrigerated truck. Joe married Shalhoub's mother, Helen
(née Seroogy), a second-generation Lebanese-American. 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.
is an American actor. He is widely recognized for his work as a
character actor, having won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â€"
Television Series Musical or Comedy, six Screen Actors Guild Awards
and four Primetime Emmy Awards. For his work on Broadway, he has
received four Tony Award nominations, winning a Tony Award for Best
Actor in a Musical for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band's
Visit.His television work includes Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom
Wings and detective Adrian Monk in the USA TV series Monk. Shalhoub
currently plays Abe Weissman, the father of the title character, on
Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.He has also had a successful film
career, with roles in films such as Quick Change (), Barton Fink (),
Big Night (), Men in Black (), Paulie (), The Siege (), Galaxy Quest
(), Spy Kids, Thirteen Ghosts, The Man Who Wasn't There (all ) and
(). He has also provided voice-work for the Cars franchise (-),
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles () and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out
of the Shadows ().Shalhoub, the ninth of ten children, was born and
raised in an Arabic-speaking Maronite Christian family in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. His father, Joe, was from Lebanon and emigrated to the
United States as an orphan at the age of eight. He was a meat peddler
who drove a refrigerated truck. Joe married Shalhoub's mother, Helen
(née Seroogy), a second-generation Lebanese-American. 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.
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