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Wallace Shawn
New York City, New York, USA
Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall…
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Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2017–2024), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present). Shawn also appeared in The Bostonians (1984), Prick Up Your Ears (1987), Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989), Vanya on 42nd Street (1994), My Favorite Martian (1999), The Double (2013), Maggie's Plan (2015), and Marriage Story (2019). He appeared in six Woody Allen films including Manhattan (1979), Radio Days (1987), and Rifkin's Festival (2020). His television work includes recurring roles as Jeff Engels in The Cosby Show (1987–1991), Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999), Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl (2008–2012), and Father Frank Ignatius in Evil (2022–2024). Shawn is also a playwright; his plays include the Obie Award–winning Aunt Dan and Lemon (1985), The Designated Mourner (1996) and Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2008). He wrote and starred, with Andre Gregory, in the 1981 avant-garde drama My Dinner with Andre, and played the title role in A Master Builder (2013), a film adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play. Haymarket Books published his books Essays (2009) and Night Thoughts (2017). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wallace Shawn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Toy Story 5
Movie Rex (voice)
- 2026
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2025
The Clock
Movie Harold Jenkins
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2023
Krapopolis
TV show John Fate (voice)
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2021
The Addams Family 2
Movie Mr. Mustela (voice)
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2021
Gossip Girl
TV show Cyrus Rose
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2021
Waiting for Godot
Movie Lucky
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2020
Rifkin's Festival
Movie Mort Rifkin
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2020
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Movie Vizzini
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2020
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Movie Mr. Crocus
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2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
Movie Rex (voice)
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2019
Forky Asks a Question
TV show Rex (voice)
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2019
Marriage Story
Movie Frank
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2019
Evil
TV show Father Francis Ignatius
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2019
Toy Story 4
Movie Rex (voice)
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2019
Amphibia
TV show Humphrey (voice)
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- 2018
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2018
Animal Crackers
Movie Mr. Woodley (voice)
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2018
Summer Camp Island
TV show Morris Mole (voice)
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2018
Big City Greens
TV show Jyle (voice)
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2018
Book Club
Movie Dr. Derek
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2017
Another Kind of Wedding
Movie Albert
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2017
Drawing Home
Movie
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2017
Young Sheldon
TV show John Sturgis
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2017
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
Movie Principal Miller
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2017
The Only Living Boy in New York
Movie David
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2017
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
TV show Herb Smith
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2017
The Good Fight
TV show Charles Lester
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2016
Search Party
TV show William Badpastor
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2016
Graves
TV show Jerry North
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2016
The Stinky & Dirty Show
TV show Tall (voice)
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2016
Maggie's Plan
Movie Kliegler
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2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
Movie Self
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2015
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2015
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
Movie Gary
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2015
Robo-Dog
Movie Mr. Willis
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2015
Life in Pieces
TV show Samuel
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2015
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
Movie Gary the Gadget Guy (voice)
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2015
Mr. Robot
TV show Mr. Williams
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2014
Christmas at Cartwright's
Movie Harry
