Wallace Shawn
Acting
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Wallace Shawn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
TheatersToy Story 5
2026 · Movie
TheatersToy Story: 30 Years and Beyond - A Special Edition of 20/20
2026 · Movie
The Clock
2025 · Movie
Krapopolis
2023 · Series
The Addams Family 2
2021 · Movie
Gossip Girl
2021 · Series
Waiting for Godot
2021 · Movie
Rifkin's Festival
2020 · Movie
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020 · Movie
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
2020 · Movie
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
2019 · Movie
Forky Asks a Question
2019 · Series
Marriage Story
2019 · Movie
Evil
2019 · Series
Toy Story 4
2019 · Movie
Amphibia
2019 · Series
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018 · Movie
Animal Crackers
2018 · Movie
Summer Camp Island
2018 · Series
Big City Greens
2018 · Series
Book Club
2018 · Movie
Another Kind of Wedding
2017 · Movie
Drawing Home
2017 · Movie
Young Sheldon
2017 · Series
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017 · Movie
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017 · Movie
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
2017 · Series
The Good Fight
2017 · Series
Search Party
2016 · Series
Graves
2016 · Series
The Stinky & Dirty Show
2016 · Series
Maggie's Plan
2016 · Movie
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016 · Movie
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015 · Movie
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
2015 · Movie
Robo-Dog
2015 · Movie
Life in Pieces
2015 · Series
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
2015 · Movie
Mr. Robot
2015 · Series
Christmas at Cartwright's
2014 · Movie
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014 · Movie
The Fog of Courage
2014 · Movie
The Mysteries of Laura
2014 · Series
BoJack Horseman
2014 · Series
A Master Builder
2014 · Movie
The 7D
2014 · Series
The Last Impresario
2014 · Movie
Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
2014 · Movie
The Night Shift
2014 · Series
Don Peyote
2014 · Movie
The Double
2014 · Movie
Mozart in the Jungle
2014 · Series
Toy Story of Terror!
2013 · Movie
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
2013 · Movie
Admission
2013 · Movie
A Late Quartet
2012 · Movie
Partysaurus Rex
2012 · Movie
Vamps
2012 · Movie
Small Fry
2011 · Movie
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
2011 · Series
Hawaiian Vacation
2011 · Movie
The Speed of Thought
2011 · Movie
Regular Show
2010 · Series
Fish Hooks
2010 · Series
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010 · Movie
Toy Story 3
2010 · Movie
Furry Vengeance
2010 · Movie
Buzz Lightyear Mission Logs
2010 · Series
Jack and the Beanstalk
2009 · Movie
The Good Wife
2009 · Series
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009 · Movie
The Windmill Movie
2009 · Movie
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
2009 · Movie
Life on Mars
2008 · Series
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008 · Movie
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008 · Movie
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
2008 · Movie
Southland Tales
2007 · Movie
Gossip Girl
2007 · Series
New York City Serenade
2007 · Movie
The Pixar Story
2007 · Movie
Phineas and Ferb
2007 · Series
Damages
2007 · Series
I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007 · Movie
Strange Culture
2007 · Movie
Happily N'Ever After
2007 · Movie
Air Buddies
2006 · Movie
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
2006 · Movie
Eureka
2006 · Series
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006 · Movie
Chicken Little
2005 · Movie
Fat Actress
2005 · Series
Karroll's Christmas
2004 · Movie
Melinda and Melinda
2004 · Movie
The Incredibles
2004 · Movie
Desperate Housewives
2004 · Series
The Fever
2004 · Movie
Marie and Bruce
2004 · Movie
The L Word
2004 · Series
Teacher's Pet
2004 · Movie
The Haunted Mansion
2003 · Movie
Love Thy Neighbor
2003 · Movie
Duplex
2003 · Movie
Monte Walsh
2003 · Movie
Mr. St. Nick
2002 · Movie
Personal Velocity
2002 · Movie
Monsters, Inc.
2001 · Movie
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
Crossing Jordan
2001 · Series
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001 · Movie
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001 · Movie
Blonde
2001 · Series
The Prime Gig
2001 · Movie
Teacher's Pet
2000 · Series
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
2000 · Movie
Toy Story 2
1999 · Movie
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999 · Series
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999 · Series
My Favorite Martian
1999 · Movie
Family Guy
1999 · Series
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999 · Movie
Noah
1998 · Movie
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998 · Movie
The Lionhearts
1998 · Series
Sex and the City
1998 · Series
Critical Care
1997 · Movie
The Wonderful World of Disney
1997 · Series
Ally McBeal
1997 · Series
Stargate SG-1
1997 · Series
The Designated Mourner
1997 · Movie
Just Write
1997 · Movie
Vegas Vacation
1997 · Movie
King of the Hill
1997 · Series
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996 · Movie
Clueless
1996 · Series
The Wife
1996 · Movie
House Arrest
1996 · Movie
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996 · Movie
Toy Story Treats
1996 · Series
Toy Story
1995 · Movie
Just Like Dad
1995 · Movie
Clueless
1995 · Movie
Canadian Bacon
1995 · Movie
Driving Mr. Pink
1995 · Movie
A Goofy Movie
1995 · Movie
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994 · Movie
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994 · Movie
The Nanny
1993 · Series
The Pink Panther
1993 · Series
The Meteor Man
1993 · Movie
The Magic Bubble
1993 · Movie
The Cemetery Club
1993 · Movie
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Series
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993 · Series
The Double 0 Kid
1992 · Movie
Mom and Dad Save the World
1992 · Movie
Nickel & Dime
1992 · Movie
Shadows and Fog
1991 · Movie
Civil Wars
1991 · Series
The Simpsons
1989 · Series
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989 · Movie
We're No Angels
1989 · Movie
She's Out of Control
1989 · Movie
The Moderns
1988 · Movie
The Princess Bride
1987 · Movie
Prick Up Your Ears
1987 · Movie
Nice Girls Don't Explode
1987 · Movie
Radio Days
1987 · Movie
The Bedroom Window
1987 · Movie
Head Office
1985 · Movie
Heaven Help Us
1985 · Movie
Micki & Maude
1984 · Movie
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984 · Movie
The Cosby Show
1984 · Series
My Dinner with Louis
1984 · Movie
The Bostonians
1984 · Movie
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984 · Movie
Crackers
1984 · Movie
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983 · Movie
Deal of the Century
1983 · Movie
Strange Invaders
1983 · Movie
The First Time
1983 · Movie
Lovesick
1983 · Movie
A Little Sex
1982 · Movie
Strong Medicine
1981 · Movie
My Dinner with Andre
1981 · Movie
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981 · Movie
Atlantic City
1980 · Movie
Simon
1980 · Movie
All That Jazz
1979 · Movie
Starting Over
1979 · Movie
Manhattan
1979 · Movie
Taxi
1978 · Series
Our Late Night
1975 · Movie
The Man Who Changed the World
Movie