Basic Information About Wallace Shawn
Category | Celebrities βΊ Actors |
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Professions | Actor, Playwright, Voice Actor, Stand-up comedian, Essayist, Screenwriter |
Net worth | $8,000,000 |
Date of birth | 1943-11-12 (80 years old) |
Place of birth | New York City |
Nationality | United States of America |
Curiosities and Trademarks | Very elfin looks, enough to make Woody Allen look almost like a conventional leading man in Manhattan (1979) Distinctive high, clipped, lisping speaking voice Bald head and short stature |
Gender | Male |
Height | 5 ft 1 in (1.57 m) |
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What Movie Awards did Wallace Shawn win?
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Wallace Shawn awards
Award Name | State | Movie / Series Name | Year |
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Chlotrudis Award - Best Actor | Winner | The Shawshank Redemption | 1995 |
Wallace Shawn roles
Movie / Series | Role |
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Toy Story | Rex (voice) |
Toy Story 3 | Rex (voice) |
Toy Story 4 | Rex (voice) |
Toy Story 2 | Rex (voice) |
The Princess Bride | Vizzini |
Rifkin's Festival | Mort Rifkin |
Marriage Story | Theater Actor |
While We're Young | Writer |
Clueless | Mr. Wendell Hall |
The Incredibles | Gilbert Huph (voice) |
Monsters, Inc. | Rex (outtakes) (voice) (uncredited) |
Manhattan | Jeremiah |
Vegas Vacation | Marty |
All That Jazz | Assistant Insurance Man |
A Goofy Movie | Principal Mazur (voice) |
The Haunted Mansion | Ezra |
Animal Crackers | Mr. Woodley (voice) |
Book Club | Dr. Derek |
Chicken Little | Principal Fetchit (voice) |
The Only Living Boy in New York | David |
Southland Tales | Baron Von Westphalen |
House Arrest | Victor 'Vic' Finley |
She's Out of Control | Dr. Fishbinder |
Furry Vengeance | Dr. Christian Burr (uncredited) |
My Dinner with Andre | Writer |
My Dinner with Andre | Wallace Shawn |
Atlantic City | Waiter (as Wally Shawn) |
The Double | Mr Papadopoulos |
My Favorite Martian | Coleye |
Admission | Clarence |
Heaven Help Us | Father Abruzzi |
We're No Angels | Translator |
The Hotel New Hampshire | Freud |
Radio Days | Masked Avenger |
Vamps | Dr. Van Helsing |
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made | Mr. Crocus |
Maggie's Plan | Kliegler |
Young Sheldon | Dr. John Sturgis 34 episodes, 2018-2021 |
Eureka | Dr. Warren Hughes / ... 3 episodes, 2011-2012 |
The Cosby Show | Jeff Engels / ... 5 episodes, 1987-1991 |
She's Gotta Have It | Julius Kemper 3 episodes, 2017 |
Regular Show | The Evil Brain 1 episode, 2016 |
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Benjamin Edelman / ... 2 episodes, 2009-2018 |
Search Party | William Badpastor / ... 2 episodes, 2020 |
Family Guy | Bertram 3 episodes, 2001-2011 |
Gossip Girl | Cyrus Rose 11 episodes, 2008-2012 |
Graves | Jerry North 3 episodes, 2017 |
Made in Hollywood | Self 1 episode, 2009 |
The Simpsons | Wallace the Hernia 1 episode, 2019 |
Life in Pieces | Samuel 1 episode, 2016 |
Wallace Shawn's Quotes
- I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character . . . This happens to be a feature of my life generally. I do things, and other people laugh at them. I rarely know what the joke is supposed to be or why they're laughing.
- Interestingly, the actress who, in her own persona, may be gentle, shy and socially awkward, someone whose hand trembles when pouring a cup of tea for a visiting friend, can convincingly portray an elegant, cruel aristocrat tossing off malicious epigrams in an 18th-century chocolate house.
- We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
- I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
- Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or portraying what he knows about other people. On the contrary, the actor may simply be a person who's more willing than others to reveal some truths about himself.
Interesting Facts about Wallace Shawn
- Brother of Allen Shawn, American composer.
- Brother-in-law of Jamaica Kincaid, West Indian author.
- Father was William Shawn, editor of "The New Yorker" magazine from 1952-87.
- Does not own a television set.
- He met Andre Gregory, his co-star in My Dinner with Andre (1981), by arranging to attend every performance of Gregory's New York staging of "Alice in Wonderland" in 1970--a run which lasted for a year. The two have been friends and occasional collaborators ever since.
- In 2005 he received a career achievement award from the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation. The writers organizations gave him this honor for his work in the theater.
- Wrote an adaptation of the "Threepenny Opera", which opened on Broadway on April 20, 2006, at Studio 54. Its many stars included Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer and Cyndi Lauper.
- Is the longtime companion of Deborah Eisenberg.
- Was considered for the role of Eddie Valiant in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
- Has a younger sister named Mary who has been institutionalized since the mid-1950s, when she was six. Mary was diagnosed with what were then referred to as mental retardation and "infantile schizophrenia", the former term for the condition now diagnosed under the name "autism".
- Did not start acting until he was 36.
- As of 2015, has appeared in three films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: All That Jazz (1979), Atlantic City, USA (1980) and Toy Story 3 (2010).
- Was considered for the role of Gargamel in The Smurfs (2011).
- Mentioned in Justified: The Hunt (2015).
- He has appeared in five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Manhattan (1979), All That Jazz (1979), Atlantic City, USA (1980), The Princess Bride (1987) and Toy Story (1995).
- No relation to Dick Shawn ("The Producers", "Captain Eo", "Maid to Order"), despite a popular misconception.