Tony Shalhoub\'s portrayal of obsessive-compulsive San Francisco detective Adrian Monk has won him 2 Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2004 and 2005. He was nominated for a 2004 Golden Globe Award and won him both the 2003 Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and the 2003 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy. The series was also nominated for a Golden Globe.
Shalhoub had an especially memorable role in "The Man Who Wasn\'t There" (winner for Best Director-2001 Cannes International Film Festival). In 2004 he appearred in "Against the Ropes" and "The Last Shot." His numerous other feature film roles include the "Spy Kids" series, "Galaxy Quest," "The Siege," "A Civil Action," "Searching for Bobby Fischer," "The Impostors," "Primary Colors," "Gattaca," the "Men in Black" series, "Big Night," "Barton Fink," "Honeymoon in Vegas," "Quick Change," "Longtime Companion," "13 Ghosts" and "Life or Something Like It."
Shalhoub made his feature film directorial debut with the independent film "Made Up," in which he co-stars with his wife, Brooke Adams. Shalhoub\'s television credits include starring in the telefilm remakes of "Gypsy" and "That Championship Season," directed by Paul Sorvino. He was a series regular on the sitcoms "Stark Raving Mad" and the long-running hit series "Wings."
His New York theater work includes stagings of "Waiting for Godot," "Conversations with My Father," "The Heidi Chronicles," "The Odd Couple" and the New York Shakespeare Festival productions of "Henry IV Part 1" and "Richard III."
The daughter of actors, Brooke Adams attended New York\'s High School of Performing Arts and the Institute of American Ballet, and took private acting lessons from Lee Strasberg. At age 6, Brooke made her Broadway debut in the 1954 revival of "Finian\'s Rainbow." Eleven years later, she was cast as Burl Ives\' teen-aged daughter in the TV sitcom "O.K. Crackerby."
She made her adult off-Broadway bow in 1974, appearing in yet another revival, "The Petrified Forest." She starred as Abby, the romantic bone of contention between Richard Gere and Sam Shepard in the critically acclaimed 1978 film "Days of Heaven." That same year, she played the Dana Wynter role in the remake of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," and in 1979 she was Sean Connery\'s ethereal leading lady in "Cuba."
Brooke continued her career with "small" but artistically rewarding theatrical projects & by teaching acting classics to emotionally disturbed children. Brooke Adams\' more notable credits of the last 15 years have included guest appearances on TV\'s "Moonlighting," the Broadway production "The Heidi Chronicles," the narration chores for the speculatively 1994 miniseries "The Fire Next Time," and the role of Ione Skye\'s hardscrabble mother in "Gas, Food, Lodging" (1992). ~ (Excerpted from Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide)
