Tony Shalhoub Net Worth

Tony Shalhoub's Quotes

• 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.

Interesting Facts about Tony Shalhoub

1. The ninth of ten children of Joseph and Helen (Seroogy) Shalhoub, both of whom were of Lebanese descent and adherents of the Maronite Church of Lebanon, an eastern arm of the Catholic Church. Tony's siblings include actors Michael Shalhoub and Susan Shalhoub Larkin. He is the brother-in-law of Lynne Adams. A cousin is Chicago/Los Angeles radio personality Jonathon Brandmeier.
2. Has two daughters with wife Brooke Adams: Josie Lynn (born 1988), who was adopted by Adams before her marriage and whom Shalhoub later adopted), and Sophie Shalhoub (born 1993), adopted by the couple after they married.
3. Attended and graduated from Green Bay East High School in Green Bay, Wisconsin (1972).
4. Received his Bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine (1977).
5. Received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut (1980).
6. Has worked both with the Coen Brothers (Barton Fink (1991), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)) and their former cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld (Addams Family Values (1993), Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002)).
7. Attended Yale University, where his friend, Jane Kaczmarek, followed him to after he had encouraged her to shoot for stardom. They had met earlier when they both attended the University of Wisconsin.
8. Was nominated for Broadway's 1992 Tony Award as Best Actor (Featured Role - Play) for Herb Gardner's "Conversations with My Father".
9. Spent four seasons with the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
10. Was the best man at Patricia Heaton's marriage to David Hunt.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Was nominated for the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for "The Cricket in Times Square".
14. Has appeared with Cheech Marin in five films: Paulie (1998), Spy Kids 3: Game Over (2003), Cars (2006), Cars 2 (2011) and Cars 3 (2017).
15. In Men in Black (1997), he played Jeebs the pawnshop owner who is an alien disguised as human. Later, in Monk: Mr. Monk and the UFO (2009), his character was a human whom other people insisted was an alien in disguise.
16. Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category for his role as Abe Weissman in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017), but lost to Henry Winkler from Barry (2018).
17. Keynote speaker at the class of 2003 graduation at the University of Southern Maine, his alma mater.
18. Is a huge fan of the NFL's Green Bay Packers and holds season tickets.
19. Friends with Patricia Heaton. Neighbors with Dean Parisot.
20. Surname is pronounced "SHUH-loob.".