- Born
- Birth nameAnthony Marcus Shalhoub
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- Anthony Marc Shalhoub was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joseph Shalhoub, who owned a grocery chain, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at age ten, later marrying Shalhoub's mother, Helen (Seroogy), who herself was born in Wisconsin, to Lebanese parents. When Tony was six, he was introduced to the theater, in a school production of "The King and I". He graduated from Green Bay East High, and then graduated with a Bachelor's degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine before progressing to the Yale School of Drama, which he left with a Master's degree in Fine Arts.
After a time in the American Repertory Theatre, he moved to Broadway where he met his future wife, Brooke Adams, whom he married in 1992. She had an adopted daughter, Josie, who was three years old at the time that Tony and Brooke married. Tony adopted Brooke's own adopted child, Josie Lynn (born 1989) when she was eight. In 1994, the couple adopted another daughter, Sophie (born 1993). Tony's first audition after arriving in Los Angeles was for Italian cabdriver Antonio Scarpacci in the long-running sitcom Wings (1990), which also starred Tim Daly and Steven Weber.
Tony next had roles in Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), Galaxy Quest (1999) and Thir13en Ghosts (2001). However, his biggest break came, playing the obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk in Monk (2002). The series made him a star and earned him four straight Emmy Award nominations between 2003 and 2006, for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Tony won the award in 2003, 2005 and 2006, proving how popular he has become after the success of "Monk", which has been both brilliant and popular work during all its seasons.- IMDb mini biography by: Tristan Rogers
- SpouseBrooke Adams(April 27, 1992 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenJosie Lynn ShalhoubSophie Shalhoub
- ParentsJoseph ShalhoubHelen Shalhoub (Seroogy)
- RelativesAmy Shalhoub(Sibling)Maggie Shalhoub(Sibling)Michael Shalhoub(Sibling)Susan Shalhoub Larkin(Sibling)Jane Shalhoub(Sibling)Daniel Shalhoub(Sibling)Sherry Matzdorff(Sibling)Bill Shalhoub(Sibling)Deborah Shalhoub-Landin(Sibling)
- In 2003, when Shalhoub won the Emmy Award for his leading role of detective Adrian Monk, he dedicated the award to his nephew, 34-year-old Gregg Gensler, who passed away the day before.
- Was nominated for the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for "The Cricket in Times Square".
- In 2005, upon winning his second Emmy Award for Monk (2002), he told his fellow nominees that "there's always next year". Ironically, Shalhoub was the only one of the five actors to be nominated the next year.
- Received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut (1980).
- His paternal grandparents, Milhelm and Mariam, both died during WWI, his grandfather at war and his grandmother likely from disease or hunger; half of the population of Mount Lebanon, where they resided, died between 1915 and 1918. His father subsequently came to Wisconsin as a child, where he was raised by Tony's mother's family, meeting Tony's mother. On the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012), Tony also discovered that one of his maternal great-great-grandfathers, Abdul Neimy, was killed in the Hamidian massacres in 1895 by the Ottoman Empire.
- With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.
- 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.
- It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.
- I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television, I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.
- I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.
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