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Tony Shalhoub

American actor (born 1953)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Anthony Marc Shalhoub is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for a variety of roles ranging from comedic to dramatic on stage and screen. He has received several accolades including five Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, six Actor Awards and a Tony Award as well as a nomination for a Grammy Award.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tony Shalhoub” is american actor (born 1953). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tony, Shalhoub and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 55-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Tony, Shalhoub and American is the immediate research focus.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tony Shalhoub” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.