Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, playwright, essayist and comedian.
His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre and he scripted A Master Builder, a film adaptation of of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in. His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books.
His film roles have included those of Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre, Vizzini in The Princess Bride, Mr. Hall in Clueless and Rex in the Toy Story franchise. He has also appeared in a variety of television series, including recurring roles as Cyrus Rose in Gossip Girl and as Grand Nagus Zek in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
His plays include The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of a Thousand Colors. He also co-wrote the screenplay for My Dinner with Andre and he scripted A Master Builder, a film adaptation of of the play by Henrik Ibsen, which he also starred in. His book Essays was published in 2009 by Haymarket Books.
Known for
The Addams Family 2
Gossip Girl
Waiting for Godot
Rifkin’s Festival
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
Forky Asks a Question
Marriage Story
Evil
Toy Story 4
Amphibia
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Summer Camp Island
Big City Greens
Book Club
Another Kind of Wedding
Young Sheldon
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
The Only Living Boy in New York
Animal Crackers
The Good Fight
Search Party
Maggie's Plan
Starring Austin Pendleton
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
Robo-Dog
Life in Pieces
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
Mr. Robot
Christmas at Cartwright's
Toy Story That Time Forgot
The Fog of Courage
The Mysteries of Laura
BoJack Horseman
A Master Builder
The 7D
The Night Shift
Don Peyote
The Double
Mozart in the Jungle
Toy Story of Terror!
Admission
A Late Quartet
Partysaurus Rex
Vamps
Small Fry
Hawaiian Vacation
The Speed of Thought
Regular Show
Fish Hooks
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
Toy Story 3
Furry Vengeance
Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Good Wife
Capitalism: A Love Story
The Windmill Movie
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
Life on Mars
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
Southland Tales
Gossip Girl
The Pixar Story
Phineas and Ferb
I Could Never Be Your Woman
Strange Culture
Happily N'Ever After
Air Buddies
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
Eureka
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
Chicken Little
Love Thy Neighbor
Fat Actress
Karroll's Christmas
Melinda and Melinda
The Incredibles
Desperate Housewives
The Fever
Marie and Bruce
The L Word
Teacher's Pet
The Haunted Mansion
Duplex
Monte Walsh
Personal Velocity
Monsters, Inc.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Crossing Jordan
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Blonde
The Prime Gig
Teacher's Pet
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
Toy Story 2
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
My Favorite Martian
Family Guy
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
Noah
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
The Lionhearts
Sex and the City
Critical Care
The Wonderful World of Disney
Ally McBeal
Stargate SG-1
The Designated Mourner
Just Write
Vegas Vacation
King of the Hill
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
House Arrest
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
Toy Story Treats
Toy Story
Just Like Dad
Clueless
Napoleon
Canadian Bacon
The Wife
Driving Mr. Pink
A Goofy Movie
Vanya on 42nd Street
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
The Nanny
The Pink Panther
The Meteor Man
The Cemetery Club
Homicide: Life on the Street
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
The Double 0 Kid
Mom and Dad Save the World
The Magic Bubble
Shadows and Fog
The Simpsons
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
We're No Angels
She's Out of Control
The Moderns
The Princess Bride
Prick Up Your Ears
Nice Girls Don't Explode
Radio Days
The Bedroom Window
Head Office
Heaven Help Us
Micki + Maude
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
The Cosby Show
My Dinner with Louis
The Bostonians
The Hotel New Hampshire
Crackers
Saigon: Year Of The Cat
Deal of the Century
Strange Invaders
The First Time
Lovesick
A Little Sex
Strong Medicine
My Dinner with Andre
Cheaper to Keep Her
Atlantic City
Simon
All That Jazz
Starting Over
Manhattan
Taxi
Our Late Night