All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

His television work includes the roles of Antonio Scarpacci in Wings and sleuth Adrian Monk in the TV series Monk. Arab-American filmmakers submitted screenplays with the chosen winner flown to Hollywood to have their screenplay produced. The same year he appeared in Danny Leiner's drama "The Great New Wonderful" as a psychologist in post-9/11 New York City.

He has also had a successful career as a character actor with roles in films like Spy Kids Men in Black Men in Black II Thirteen Ghosts Galaxy Quest 1408 Barton Fink Big Night The Siege Cars Cars 2 and The Man Who Wasn't There. Anthony Marcus "Tony" Shalhoub (Arabic: أنتوني شلهوب ماركوس) (born October 9 1953) is a Lebanese American actor.