Wallace Shawn
Acting
Born November 12, 1943 · 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.
Films (133)
Toy Story 5
2026
The Clock
2025
The Addams Family 2
2021
Waiting for Godot
2021
Rifkin’s Festival
2020
A Virtual Princess Bride Reunion
2020
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made
2020
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
2019
Marriage Story
2019
Toy Story 4
2019
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018
Animal Crackers
2018
Book Club
2018
Another Kind of Wedding
2017
Drawing Home
2017
Cop and a Half: New Recruit
2017
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
Maggie's Plan
2016
Starring Austin Pendleton
2016
Toy Story at 20: To Infinity and Beyond
2015
Club Penguin Halloween Panic!
2015
Robo-Dog
2015
Club Penguin Monster Beach Party
2015
Christmas at Cartwright's
2014
Toy Story That Time Forgot
2014
The Fog of Courage
2014
A Master Builder
2014
Phineas and Ferb Save Summer
2014
Don Peyote
2014
The Double
2014
Toy Story of Terror!
2013
Andre Gregory: Before and After Dinner
2013
Admission
2013
A Late Quartet
2012
Partysaurus Rex
2012
Vamps
2012
Small Fry
2011
Hawaiian Vacation
2011
The Speed of Thought
2011
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
2010
Toy Story 3
2010
Furry Vengeance
2010
Jack and the Beanstalk
2009
Capitalism: A Love Story
2009
The Windmill Movie
2009
André Gregory and Wallace Shawn
2009
Scooby-Doo! and the Goblin King
2008
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
2008
USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland
2008
Southland Tales
2007
New York City Serenade
2007
The Pixar Story
2007
I Could Never Be Your Woman
2007
Strange Culture
2007
Happily N'Ever After
2007
Air Buddies
2006
Tom and Jerry: Shiver Me Whiskers
2006
Howard Zinn: Voices of a People's History of the United States
2006
Chicken Little
2005
Karroll's Christmas
2004
Melinda and Melinda
2004
The Incredibles
2004
Teacher's Pet
2004
The Haunted Mansion
2003
Love Thy Neighbor
2003
Duplex
2003
Monte Walsh
2003
Mr. St. Nick
2002
Personal Velocity
2002
Monsters, Inc.
2001
As You Wish: The Story of 'The Princess Bride'
2001
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2001
The Prime Gig
2001
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins
2000
Toy Story 2
1999
My Favorite Martian
1999
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999
Noah
1998
The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story
1998
Critical Care
1997
Just Write
1997
Vegas Vacation
1997
The Story Behind 'Toy Story'
1996
The Wife
1996
House Arrest
1996
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2
1996
Toy Story
1995
Just Like Dad
1995
Clueless
1995
Napoleon
1995
Canadian Bacon
1995
Driving Mr. Pink
1995
A Goofy Movie
1995
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
1994
The Meteor Man
1993
The Magic Bubble
1993
The Cemetery Club
1993
The Double 0 Kid
1992
Mom and Dad Save the World
1992
Nickel & Dime
1992
Shadows and Fog
1991
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills
1989
We're No Angels
1989
She's Out of Control
1989
The Moderns
1988
The Princess Bride
1987
Prick Up Your Ears
1987
Nice Girls Don't Explode
1987
Radio Days
1987
The Bedroom Window
1987
Head Office
1985
Heaven Help Us
1985
Micki & Maude
1984
How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
1984
My Dinner with Louis
1984
The Bostonians
1984
The Hotel New Hampshire
1984
Crackers
1984
Saigon: Year of the Cat
1983
Deal of the Century
1983
Strange Invaders
1983
The First Time
1983
Lovesick
1983
A Little Sex
1982
Strong Medicine
1981
My Dinner with Andre
1981
Cheaper to Keep Her
1981
Atlantic City
1980
Simon
1980
All That Jazz
1979
Starting Over
1979
Manhattan
1979