Wissenswertes

Tony's first acting experience was in the 10th grade,playing King Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The play was never produced.

In 11th grade, he directed two short horror films with his friends in school.They were screened in school having students laughing instead of screaming. Tony still has a hold of them to remember how a miserable failure his first movie work was.

He has a fraternal twin, Elie Kanaan.

He uses his middle name Eli instead of his family name, Kanaan, so he wouldn't be mistaken with the Brazilian race driver Tony Kanaan.

At one point, he used to watch 5 movies a day. By age 20, he had watched over a thousand movies.

Speaks fluent English and Arabic.

Had the highest GPA in school.

In high school was a member of the basketball team.

Plays the guitar.

He was on the dean's honor's list throughout college.