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Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, playwright, essayist, and screenwriter. He is known for playing Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987), Mr. Hall in Clueless (1995), and voicing Rex in the Toy Story franchise (1995–present).
American character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, delightfully mischievously gnomish faces made for entertaining. Though he got out of the acting starting gate rather late, he quickly excelled film and TV while managing to turn himself into comedy egghead or loser types.
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American character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, delightfully mischievously gnomish faces made for entertaining. Though he got out of the acting starting gate rather late, he quickly excelled film and TV while managing to turn himself into comedy egghead or loser types.
- November 12, 1943
May 3, 2024 · Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American playwright and character actor whose oft-surreal probing plays found favour in the British theatre and led some to call him the leading contemporary dramatist in the United States.
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Oct 24, 2019 · An interview with Wallace Shawn about his role on ‘Young Sheldon,’ getting recognized by fans on the street for Clueless and The Princess Bride (and sometimes even My Dinner With Andre), and ...
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Jul 19, 2021 · The Theatre. The Class Distinctions of Wallace Shawn. In new podcast versions of his plays “The Designated Mourner” and “Grasses of a Thousand Colors,” Shawn turns the upper-middle-class...
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Both a playwright and stage actor, he has been one of the busiest performers in contemporary film and television, with no fewer than 135 credits since 1979, when he played Diane Keaton’s ex-husband in Woody Allen’s film Manhattan and was in Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz.