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ChannelDate & TimeTitleBuy
FLIXeSat, Nov 21, 6:00 PMCritical CareBuy
HALMRKSat, Nov 21, 8:00 PMMr. St. NickBuy
HALMRKSun, Nov 22, 4:00 PMMr. St. NickBuy
FLIXeMon, Nov 23, 11:55 AMStrange InvadersBuy
HBO2eTue, Nov 24, 8:15 AMKit Kittredge: An American GirlBuy
FLIXeThu, Nov 26, 4:00 PMCritical CareBuy
DISNEYThu, Nov 26, 4:00 PMChicken LittleBuy
FMCThu, Nov 26, 6:00 PMThe Princess BrideBuy
FMCThu, Nov 26, 10:15 PMThe Princess BrideBuy
CARTOONThu, Nov 26, 11:30 PMFamily GuyBuy
ENCFri, Nov 27, 1:20 AMThe Princess BrideBuy
CARTOONFri, Nov 27, 3:30 AMFamily GuyBuy
MOMAXeFri, Nov 27, 3:55 AMHouse ArrestBuy
HALMRKFri, Nov 27, 4:00 PMMr. St. NickBuy
HBO2eFri, Nov 27, 4:15 PMI Could Never Be Your WomanBuy
HALMRKSat, Nov 28, 12:00 PMMr. St. NickBuy
NBCSat, Nov 28, 8:30 PMThe IncrediblesBuy
FLIXeMon, Nov 30, 11:45 AMCritical CareBuy
TMCeMon, Nov 30, 12:30 PMNew York City SerenadeBuy
TMCeMon, Nov 30, 9:30 PMNew York City SerenadeBuy
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Wallace Shawn Biography

  • Birth Place: New York, NY
  • Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 11/12/1943, Scorpio
  • Profession: Actor; playwright; screenwriter
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 ShowMurphy 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
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