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Wallace Shawn

Born 1943-11-12

📍 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 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).

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Filmography 192

as Harold Jenkins

as John Fate (voice)

The Addams Family 2

as Mr. Mustela (voice)

Waiting for Godot

Rifkin’s Festival

A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion

Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?

as Father Francis Ignatius

as Humphrey (voice)

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Animal Crackers

as Mr. Woodley (voice)

Summer Camp Island

as Morris Mole (voice)

Summer Camp Island

as Barry (voice)

Summer Camp Island

as Pete (voice)

Big City Greens

as Jyle (voice)

Another Kind of Wedding

as John Sturgis

Cop and a Half: New Recruit

as Principal Miller

The Only Living Boy in New York

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

as Charles Lester

as William Badpastor

The Stinky & Dirty Show

as Tall (voice)

Starring Austin Pendleton

Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond

as Self (archive footage)

Club Penguin Halloween Panic!

Club Penguin Monster Beach Party

as Gary the Gadget Guy (voice)

as Mr. Williams

Christmas at Cartwright's

Toy Story That Time Forgot

The Fog of Courage

as Eustace Bagge

The Mysteries of Laura

as Kenneth Walters

BoJack Horseman

as Wallace Shawn (voice)

A Master Builder

as Halvard Solness

as Not-So-Magic-Mirror (voice)

The Last Impresario

Phineas and Ferb Save Summer

as Saul (voice)

The Night Shift

as Dr. Fieldman

as Mr. Papadopoulos

Mozart in the Jungle

as Winslow Elliott

Toy Story of Terror!

as Gideon Rosen

Partysaurus Rex

as Dr. Van Helsing

Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness

as Taotie (voice)

Hawaiian Vacation

The Speed of Thought

as Evil Brain (voice)

as Rat King (voice)

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

as Calico (voice)

Furry Vengeance

as Dr. Christian Burr (uncredited)

Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs

Jack and the Beanstalk

as Booker / Broker / Lancealot Squarejaw

Jack and the Beanstalk

as Broker / Booker / Lancelot Squarejaw

as Charles Lester

Capitalism: A Love Story

The Windmill Movie

André Gregory and Wallace Shawn

as The Sorcerer

Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King

as Mr. Gibbles (voice)

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl

USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland

Southland Tales

as Baron Von Westphalen

New York City Serenade

as Wallace Shawn

The Pixar Story

as Rex (voice) (archive footage)

Phineas and Ferb

as Saul (voice)

as Sterling Biddle

I Could Never Be Your Woman

as Math Teacher (uncredited)

Strange Culture

Happily N'Ever After

as Munk (voice)

as Billy (voice)

Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers

as Barnacle Paul (voice)

as Dr. Warren Hughes

Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States

as Principal Fetchit (voice)

Karroll's Christmas

Melinda and Melinda

The Incredibles

as Gilbert Huph (voice)

Desperate Housewives

as William Halsey

as Principal Crosby Strickler (voice)

The Haunted Mansion

Love Thy Neighbor

as Clinic Doctor

as Colonel Wilson

Personal Velocity

as Rex (voice) (uncredited)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

as Film Professor

Crossing Jordan

as Howard Stiles

As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

as Principal Strickler (voice)

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

as Benjamin Edelman

My Favorite Martian

as Bertram (voice)

The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story

as Tarzan Chimp (voice)

Sex and the City

as Martin Gable

The Wonderful World of Disney

as Arthur Blake

King of the Hill

as Philip Ny (voice)

The Story Behind 'Toy Story'

All Dogs Go to Heaven 2

as Labrador MC (voice)

Toy Story Treats

as Stan Spiegel

as Mr. Wendell Hall

as Echidna (voice)

as Canadian Prime Minister Clark MacDonald

Driving Mr. Pink

as Boss Man (voice)

as Principal Mazur (voice)

Vanya on 42nd Street

Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

as Horatio Byrd

as Charles Haste

The Pink Panther

as Boss Man (voice)

The Magic Bubble

as Doctor/Therapist

The Cemetery Club

Homicide: Life on the Street

as Frank Hopper

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

The Double 0 Kid

Mom and Dad Save the World

as Sibor, Semage's Beau

as Everett Willits

Shadows and Fog

as Wallace the Hernia (voice)

Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills

We're No Angels

She's Out of Control

as Dr. Fishbinder

The Princess Bride

Prick Up Your Ears

Nice Girls Don't Explode

as Masked Avenger

The Bedroom Window

as Henderson's Attorney

as Father Abruzzi

as Dr. Elliot Fibel

How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days

as Professor Silverfish

as Jeffrey Engels

My Dinner with Louis

The Hotel New Hampshire

Saigon: Year of the Cat

Deal of the Century

as Harold DeVoto

Strange Invaders

as Jules Goldfarb

Strong Medicine

as Birthday Party Guest (uncredited)

My Dinner with Andre

as Wallace Shawn

Cheaper to Keep Her

as Eric Van Dongen

as Assistant Insurance Man

as Workshop Member