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Profile: Wallace Shawn

source: http://www.avclub.com/articles/wallace-shawn,26010/

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"Wallace Shawn has a curiously bifurcated career as an incendiary playwright whose work often digs into dark, troubling subject matter, and as a popular, hard-working character actor/voice artist who specializes in playing milquetoast bumblers and sniveling schemers. Not bad for a man who never set out to be an actor in the first place. Shawn made a memorable impression as a sexual dynamo in Woody Allen’s 1979 classic Manhattan.

The son of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn, Wallace has worked steadily in film and television since then, most memorably in the 1981 cult My Dinner With Andre, which he co-wrote; 1987’s The Princess Bride;and 1995’s Toy Story and its sequels, which cast him as the voice of Rex the dinosaur. Shawn has also written the screenplays for adaptations of several of his plays, including Marie & Bruce, a funny, uncompromising look at a relationship in crisis starring Julianne Moore and Matthew Broderick. Marie & Bruce has just been released on DVD."
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