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Wallace Shawn

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Wallace Shawn Fast Facts:

Son of William Shawn, the legendary editor of The New Yorker.
As a child, staged musical puppet shows with his brother, Allen, for their parents and friends.
Before breaking into acting, taught drama and Latin at the Trevor Day School in New York City.
Our Late Night, the first play he wrote that was produced, was initially booed by Off-Broadway audiences but went on to win the Obie award in 1975; later won Obies for 1986's Aunt Dan and Lemon and 1990's The Fever.
First appeared on stage in the 1977 production of his translation of Niccolo Machiavelli's The Mandrake.
Big-screen debut was in Woody Allen's romantic comedy Manhattan (1979); his best-known film role, in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, followed in 1987.
Has appeared on numerous and varied TV series, including The Cosby Show, Murphy Brown, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Crossing Jordan, The L Word and Gossip Girl.

Wallace Shawn Relationships:
Allen Shawn - Brother
Benjamin W. Chon - Grandfather
Cecille Shawn - Mother
Deborah Eisenberg - Significant Other
William Shawn - Father
College:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (BA in History); attended University of Oxford, Magdalen College, Oxford, England