Wallace Shawn
Acting
Born: Nov 12, 1943
From: New York City, New York, USA
Credits: 30 titles
Biography
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 …
Filmography
| Title | Character | Year | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toy Story 3 | Rex (voice) | 2010 | 7.804 |
| Capitalism: A Love Story | Self | 2009 | 7.066 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk | Booker / Broker / Lancealot … | 2009 | 5.2 |
| Kit Kittredge: An American Girl | Mr. Gibson | 2008 | 6.5 |
| Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King | Mr. Gibbles (voice) | 2008 | 7.6 |
| Southland Tales | Baron Von Westphalen | 2007 | 5.219 |
| Happily N'Ever After | Munk (voice) | 2007 | 5.084 |
| Chicken Little | Principal Fetchit (voice) | 2005 | 5.9 |
| Melinda and Melinda | Sy | 2004 | 6.201 |
| The Curse of the Jade Scorpion | George Bond | 2001 | 6.616 |
| Monsters, Inc. | Rex (voice) (uncredited) | 2001 | 7.849 |
| Toy Story 2 | Rex (voice) | 1999 | 7.605 |
| My Favorite Martian | Coleye | 1999 | 5.654 |
| Toy Story | Rex (voice) | 1995 | 7.972 |
| Canadian Bacon | Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald | 1995 | 5.782 |
| Clueless | Mr. Wendell Hall | 1995 | 7.25 |
| Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle | Horatio Byrd | 1994 | 5.851 |
| Vanya on 42nd Street | Vanya | 1994 | 6.633 |
| Mom and Dad Save the World | Sibor, Semage's Beau | 1992 | 4.862 |
| The Princess Bride | Vizzini | 1987 | 7.696 |
| Radio Days | Masked Avenger | 1987 | 7.044 |
| Prick Up Your Ears | John Lahr | 1987 | 6.672 |
| Head Office | Mike Hoover | 1985 | 5.426 |
| The Hotel New Hampshire | Freud | 1984 | 5.647 |
| Micki & Maude | Dr. Elliot Fibel | 1984 | 5.598 |
| Deal of the Century | Harold DeVoto | 1983 | 4.727 |
| Cheaper to Keep Her | Mugger | 1981 | 4.333 |
| My Dinner with Andre | Wallace Shawn | 1981 | 7.5 |
| Atlantic City | Waiter | 1980 | 6.801 |
| Manhattan | Jeremiah | 1979 | 7.721 |
| Known for | Acting |
| Credits | 30 |
| Born | 1943 |
| From | New York City, … |