Biography of adriane monk

American actor (born 1953)

Anthony Marc Shalhoub (shəl-HOOB; born October 9, 1953) is an American actor. His breakout role was as Antonio Scarpacci on the sitcom Wings from 1991 to 1997. He later starred as Adrian Monk in the USA Network series Monk from 2002 to 2009, winning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. For his supporting role as Abe Weissman on Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series.

Shalhoub has had a successful film career, with roles in films such as Quick Change (1990), Barton Fink (1991), Big Night (1996), Men in Black (1997), Gattaca (1997), Paulie (1998), The Siege (1998), Galaxy Quest (1999), Spy Kids, Thirteen Ghosts, and The Man Who Wasn't There (all 2001). He has also provided voice work for the Cars franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016). For his work on Broadway, Shalhoub won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Tewfiq Zakaria in The Band's Visit in 2018. Other Tony-nominated roles were in Conversations with My Father in 1992, Golden Boy in 2013, and Act One in 2014.

Early life and education

Anthony Marc Shalhoub (Arabic: أنتوني مارك شلهوب), the ninth of ten children, was born and raised in a Lebanese Christian household in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The family lived in Doty Street, and Shalhoub's mother kept the large family harmonious despite the chaos. Shalhoub described his mother as "funny and nutty" and said she wouldn't allow Shalhoub and his siblings to express anger. Shalhoub attributed his therapy as an adult to that emotional restriction but has stated that it enabled him to play calm and relaxed roles in his career.

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Fictional American private investigator

This article is about the fictional detective. For the Falklands politician, see Adrian Monk (politician).

Fictional character

Adrian Monk, portrayed by Tony Shalhoub, is the title character and protagonist of the USA Network television series Monk. He is a renowned former homicide detective for the San Francisco Police Department. He has obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and multiple phobias, all of which intensified after the murder of his wife Trudy, who died in a car bomb, resulting in his suspension from the department. He works as a private police homicide consultant and undergoes therapy with the ultimate goal of overcoming his grief, taking control of his phobias and disorder, and being reinstated as a police detective. Monk solved over 100 homicide investigations.

Series co-creator David Hoberman says that he based Monk partly on himself, and also on other fictional detectives such as Lt. Columbo, Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes. Other actors considered for the role included Dave Foley, John Ritter, Henry Winkler, Stanley Tucci, Alfred Molina and Michael Richards. The network eventually chose Shalhoub because they felt he could "bring the humor and passion of Monk to life".

Both Monk and Shalhoub have garnered many accolades. Monk was included in Bravo's list of The 100 Greatest Television Characters of All Time, and Shalhoub has won various awards for his portrayal, including a Golden Globe Award, three Primetime Emmy Awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Character development

Creation

Monk was originally envisioned as a "more goofy and physical" Inspector Clouseau type of character. However, co-creator David Hoberman came up with the idea of a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was inspired by his own bout with self-diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder; in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette inte

History[]

Early Life[]

Monk was born on June or July 9th, 1959 in the Bay Area of San Francisco. His family grew up in Marin County, California. His parents were very strict and far from warm or affectionate. Already a few months after his birth, he started displaying traits untypical for children his age. Neysa Gordon, who babysat both him and his older brother Ambrose, recalls that he was already able to change and dispose his own diapers without assistance in his infancy. Elementary school teacher Timothy Henn also noted that Adrian was a star pupil and considered a child prodigy. This drastically changed, however, when his father, Jack Monk, a linen salesman, left the family in July of 1972 after going to pick up some Chinese food, when his youngest son was in 4th grade. Adrian spoke to him again in "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad". According to "Mr. Monk In Outer Space", he spoke to Ambrose as well but left him collecting his mail saying that he would pick it up in one of his Volkswagen. For all of his childhood, he also had various bad experiences with Christmas: Notably, in 1964, his mother was sick, his older brother Ambrose locked himself in the basement to avoid Christmas, his dad was "dad", and Monk himself received a Christmas gift from his dad consisting of only one walkie-talkie, to which Jack Monk coldly stated that Monk would have been better off with one anyways as he didn't have any friends. This contributed, in part, to his hatred of the Christmas season in his adult years. When he left, Ambrose and Mrs. Monk were nearly comatose, leaving it up to Adrian to hold the family together; cooking the meals and doing the shopping.

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. While there, he acquired the nickname "Captain Cool" because he would often spend his weekends defrosting the refrigerator in the student lounge. It was there that he met the love of his life, Trudy. He met her at the library when another student asked

master mariner, farmer and councillor, was born in Midsomer Norton, Somerset, on 13 May 1917, son of Lieutenant Commander William Archibald Monk RN and Phillis, née Bertrand, a daughter of William Wickham BERTRAND.

He entered the Royal Navy as a midshipman, and later transferred to the merchant navy. He became a master mariner, with an impressive war record, having been torpedoed twice in the South Atlantic. He switched to farming in Wales and in 1957 moved to the Falkland Islands, on Pebble Island, and from 1968 at San Carlos, where he had first trained in the 1950s.

He was trusted implicitly by the Islanders as a member of the LegCo, where he served from 1959 for more than 20 years. He was awarded an OBE in 1979 and was for several years a vice-president of the Falkland Islands Association, which campaigned for self-determination.

He became a government employee as agricultural officer and in 1979, he was involved in radical reform of Falklands farming following Lord SHACKLETON's first report, which recommended the subdivision of large farms, previously owned by the Falkland Islands Company or others not living in the Islands, to be sold to Islanders. It was appropriate that the remaining part of his grandfather's enterprise, Roy Cove, was sold for subdivision.

He was never happier than on horseback tending his vast flock of sheep. But he was always ready to sally forth from his remote farmstead to challenge Argentina in the more formal surroundings of the UN Building in New York and elsewhere. As an outspoken opponent of Argentina's sovereignty claim to the Islands, he was chosen by councillors to represent the Islands in the crucial but abortive talks with the Argentines in April 1980.

A formidable debater, he led the challenge to proposals by the Foreign Office Minister, Nicholas RIDLEY, to solve the impasse, outlined during the Minister's ill-tempered 1980 visit to Stanley. Monk outlined Islanders' views in what the Governor, Sir Rex HUNT, cal