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.

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.