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Wallace Shawn

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Also known as Wallace Michael Shawn, Wally Shawn

American actor

OverviewAI-generated

Wallace Shawn is a male artist from Canada whose professional career began in 1967. Born on November 12, 1943, he is associated with musical genres including folk pop, piano rock, and English-language music from the 2010s and 2020s.

His recorded works are cataloged in various databases, with Open Library listing 38 works and Crossref noting five. He has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
38

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Canada
Active from
1998-08-08
2010s2020senglishfolk poppiano rockpop

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
116
Total plays
702

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wallace+Shawn">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Wallace Shawn

Key facts

Born
Wallace Michael Shawn , ( 1943-11-12 ) November 12, 1943 (age 82) , New York City , U.S.
Alma mater
Harvard University ( AB )
Occupations
Actor essayist writer
Years active
1965–present
Partner
Deborah Eisenberg (1972–present)
Father
William Shawn
Relatives
Allen Shawn (brother)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, essayist, and writer. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), and Dr. John Sturgis in Young Sheldon (2017–2024), and for 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), The Haunted Mansion (2003), The Incredibles (2004), Southland Tales (2006), The Double (2013), 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).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wallace Shawn” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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