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Tony Shalhoub thrilled mystery fans for 8 seasons as Monk, the obsessive-compulsive detective with too many phobias to rely. As his character solved unsolvable murders in San Francisco, his friends on the police division and his overworked assistants tried to ensure he stayed sane, and that he in the end come to phrases with the loss of his spouse, Trudy.
The display received several awards, filmed over 100 episodes, and was once one of the USA community's most well liked authentic techniques. Reruns of Monk nonetheless make the rounds on METV and more than a few streaming products and services, so when fanatics return to the show they might be shocked to identify a few now familiar faces who weren't so acquainted when the display first aired, one of which is an Oscar winning star.
10 Ken Marino
Fans of MTV's The State and Showtime's Party Down will know Marino from those two cult initiatives. He is also recognizable from motion pictures like Wanderlust and Wet Hot American Summer as well as the popular Adult Swim show Children's Hospital. But as he was garnering titles so as to add to his IMDb record, one name he earned was a temporary appearance as Lester Highsmith, a cop and the ex of a murder victim on Monk.
9 Melora Hardin
Fans of The Office may know her higher as Jan, Michael Scott's poisonous ex-boss/ex-girlfriend. Years before she was a recurring persona on the hit sitcom, she had a ordinary role on Monk. Hardin played Trudy, Monk's misplaced love who was once murdered in a automobile bombing. The lack of his spouse caused Monk's psychological breakdown which brought about him to surrender the pressure and become a personal detective.
8 Jim O'Heir
Parks and Rec lovers know him as Larry, or Gary, or Jerry, or Terry. But years before his display with Amy Poehler turned into successful, he had a brief, almost insignificant function in a 2006 episode as a park ranger on Monk. His personality is solely credited as "Park Ranger" on IMDb.
7 Danny Trejo
Trejo is superb at playing hardened criminals, thugs, toughs, and just about any more or less persona that you just do not need to mess with. Trejo had already been in several films by the time he gave the impression in an episode of Monk, mostly within the films of Robert Rodriguez, but he used to be not but the icon that he is nowadays. In the episode "Mr. Monk Goes To Jail," Trejo plays Spyder, a murderer who stocks a cellular with Monk when Monk goes undercover in jail. The two develop into not going pals as Monk investigates a murder. Trejo had a very easy time giving us a plausible performance as a prisoner, since before he was an actor he did several years in prison.
6 Angela Kinsey
Melora Hardin used to be now not the only celebrity of The Office to make an look on Monk. In an episode where Alfred Molina performs a belligerent millionaire, Hardin plays a physician who plans his loss of life through manipulating x-rays so that she will money in. Kinsey returned as the nature within the Monk 100th episode special.
5 Rainn Wilson
Yet every other member from The Office forged to pop up in the Monk-verse, everyone's favorite (or least favourite) assistant to the regional supervisor, Dwight Shrute, AKA Rainn Wilson. Wilson, like Kinsey (who played Dwight's lover on the display), performed a computer nerd who kills a qualified baseball participant and his wife to cash in on the price of a bad ball he caught at a recreation.
4 David Koechner
Koechner is also identified for his time on The Office as Todd Packer, Michael Scott's misogynistic loud-mouthed highest friend. And despite the fact that he used to be slightly famous at the time thanks to his function as Champ Kind in Anchorman, he was once now not but as in call for as a comedy actor as he is now. So he needed paintings, and one piece of labor he got was Monk, like the other Office stars (save for Hardin) Koechner played a killer.
3 Nick Offerman
It would seem that just about everyone who used to be in a success NBC sitcom were given some early paintings on Monk. Before he was Ron Swanson of the Pawnee Parks and Recreation Department, he was once Jack Whitman, an enthusiastic volunteer for Natalie's (Monk's 2nd assistant) marketing campaign for the varsity board. Offerman's character, Jack Whitman, at the beginning comes throughout as a devoted supporter of Natalie's cause, however in truth, he was once a murderer who was looking to get get entry to to documents that got swept up within the marketing campaign that might prove he murdered his spouse. Funny sufficient, while Offerman's upward thrust to popularity got here later in existence, his wife Megan Mullaley was once already famous thanks to her role in Will & Grace.
2 Sarah Silverman
Silverman, unlike many of the others on this record, had a recurring role on the series as Marci Maven. Maven was Monk's largest fan who had a bit of of an bad obsession and enchantment to the man, even though it never manifested in anything else as dangerous as homicide (she even helped him clear up a couple of circumstances). As Silverman came and went on the show, she was once rising her occupation as a stand-up comic and actress, and used to be running on her own show, The Sarah Silverman Program.
1 Jennifer Lawrence
This may well be the largest name to come in and out of Monk's San Francisco, save for names that appeared on the show who had been already famous (examples: Stanley Tucci, Andy Richter, and so forth.). But this A-listers appearance deserves a special shout-out for one reason why, it was Lawrence's first speaking role on-screen ever. Lawrence performed a school mascot who is interviewed through the detective before suiting up as a jungle cat and entertaining the crowd at a pep rally, while additionally violating Monk's very strict personal limitations. Who knew that the kid in an enormous cat suit would move on to be an Oscar winner value tens of millions of dollars? Perhaps Monk did...he used to be a detective in spite of everything.
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