[OT News] Tony Shalhoub joins Nurse Jackie

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Tony Shalhoub Joins the Cast of Nurse Jackie
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Having just voiced Splinter in Paramount Pictures'
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Emmy Award-winner
Tony Shalhoub ("Monk") is set to join Emmy-winning
actress Edie Falco on "Nurse Jackie," the Showtime
comedy about a flawed emergency room nurse. Shalhoub
will play the recurring role of Dr. Bernard Prince,
a new ER doctor who has a great bedside manner, a
special touch with his boss, Gloria Akalitus (Anna
Deavere Smith), and who offers Jackie something she
desperately needs � a friend.

"Nurse Jackie" also stars Merritt Wever, Dominic
Fumusa, Paul Schulze, Betty Gilpin, Ruby Jerins,
Stephen Wallem, Mackenzie Aladjem and Peter
Facinelli. Clyde Phillips serves as showrunner and
executive producer. Tom Straw, Richie Jackson, Liz
Flahive and Caryn Mandabach also executive produce.
The series is a co-production between Showtime and
Lionsgate.

Best known to television audiences as the
obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk, a role
which earned him four straight Emmy nominations and
three wins, Shalhoub has been starring in hit
television and movie projects for years, including
the long-running sitcom "Wings," and both Men in
Black and Men in Black II.

Other film appearances include Stanley Tucci's hit
Big Night, Made Up, Barton Fink and Cars and Cars II.
Shalhoub also has an extensive list of credits and
accolades on Broadway, including Tony Award
nominations for "Act One," "Golden Boy," "Lend Me a
Tenor," "Conversations with My Father," "The Heidi
Chronicles" and "The Odd Couple".