Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub is a Lebanese-American actor and voice actor, who is best known for his roles as Antonio Scarpacci in the NBC sitcom Wings, as well as Adrian Monk in the USA Network comedy-drama series Monk. He also played Misha Belenkoff in the 1998 DreamWorks adventure comedy film Paulie, Alexander Minon in the Spy Kids franchise, and voiced Splinter in the 2014 Paramount/Nickelodeon live-action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its 2016 sequel.
For Disney, he voiced Jerry Valentine in Dinosaurs, The Emir in the Gargoyles episode "Grief", and Luigi in Disney/Pixar's Cars franchise. He also voiced Luigi (not the Pixar Cars character) in Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures and Zopilote in Elena of Avalor. Additionally, he played Kevin Conway in the 1998 Touchstone Pictures film A Civil Action, Tommy Sanz in The Last Shot, and Roger Enrico in the 2023 Searchlight Pictures film Flamin' Hot.
Shalhoub, the ninth of ten children, was born and raised in a Lebanese Maronite household in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joseph, was from Mount Lebanon 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. Joe married Shalhoub's mother, Helen Seroogy, a Lebanese American. The two met when Joe was taken in to be raised by her family when they were both young. The Seroogy family operated a candy store that remains a family business. One of Shalhoub's maternal great-great-grandfathers, Abdul Naimy, although Lebanese, was reportedly killed by being crucified in 1985 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. He later went on to earn a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.
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