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In 2003, when Shalhoub won the Emmy Award for his leading role of detective Adrian Monk, he dedicated the award to his nephew, 34-year-old Gregg Gensler, who passed away the day before.

Was nominated for the 2009 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for "The Cricket in Times Square".

In 2005, upon winning his second Emmy Award for Monk (2002), he told his fellow nominees that "there's always next year". Ironically, Shalhoub was the only one of the five actors to be nominated the next year.

Received his Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut (1980).

His paternal grandparents, Milhelm and Mariam, both died during WWI, his grandfather at war and his grandmother likely from disease or hunger; half of the population of Mount Lebanon, where they resided, died between 1915 and 1918. His father subsequently came to Wisconsin as a child, where he was raised by Tony's mother's family, meeting Tony's mother. On the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012), Tony also discovered that one of his maternal great-great-grandfathers, Abdul Neimy, was killed in the Hamidian massacres in 1895 by the Ottoman Empire.

With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano.

It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television, I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.