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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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Learn about the life and career of Wallace Shawn, an American character actor and playwright who starred in films like Manhattan, My Dinner with Andre and The Princess Bride. Find out his birth date, height, family, awards, trivia and more on IMDb.
- 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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Though internationally renowned as a “character” actor in comedy roles, in real life Wallace Shawn ’65 acts deliberately, thoughtfully, and with a native New Yorker’s intensity.
Jul 28, 2013 · Wallace Shawn is famous for his career as an actor, but over the past four decades he has written a handful of plays that are intellectually demanding and rarely produced. His characters tell...
