Actors: Wallace Shawn

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Jméno:Wallace Shawn
Datum narození:1943-11-12
Místo narození:New York City, New York, USA
Výška:1.57 m
IMDb ID:nm0001728

Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian. His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre and he scripted A Master Builder, a film adaptation of of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in. His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books.

  • Did not start acting until he was 36.
  • Does not own a television set.
  • 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".
  • Father was William Shawn, editor of "The New Yorker" magazine from 1952-87.
  • Is the longtime companion of Deborah Eisenberg.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Was considered for the role of Eddie Valiant in Falešná hra s králíkem Rogerem (1988).
  • 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 (1980), Princezna Nevěsta (1987) and Toy Story: Příběh hraček (1995).
  • Brother of Allen Shawn, American composer.
  • 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.
  • Was considered for the role of Gargamel in Šmoulové (2011).
  • Brother-in-law of Jamaica Kincaid, West Indian author.
  • As of 2021, he has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: All That Jazz (1979), Atlantic City (1980), Toy Story 3: Příběh hraček (2010) and Marriage Story (2019).
  • Mentioned in The Hunt (2015).
  • No relation to Dick Shawn ("The Producers", "Captain Eo", "Maid to Order"), despite a popular misconception.
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