"Defective detective": actors and roles

The comedy series "Detective Monk" with Tony Shalub in the title role was so highly popular that the producers have extended its production for as many as 8 seasons. The project was shot according to the screenwriter Andy Brackman's script. Each episode has its own name, invariably beginning with the words "Mr. Monk".

Description

In Russia, the series was broadcast from the last summer month of 2013 by the channel "TV Center" under the adapted name "Defective detective". Actors of the first plan: T. Shalub, D. Gray-Stanford, T. Levine, T. Howard - did not leave the project for all eight seasons, unlike the stage masters performing episodic and secondary roles.

According to the idea of the creators, all the plot action of the project unfolds exclusively in San Francisco, but the geography of the filming is more extensive: Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles. Actors and roles of the series "Defective detective" are selected in a corresponding way, which is not surprising, because the casting of actors took place under the vigilant control of the producers of the project.

Plot

Each series of the television series "Defective detective" actors involved in the work on the project, told the viewer a separate story - the investigation of a crime. The common and unchanging element that was present in every episode was the main character - Adrian Monk (Tony Shalub). He worked in one of the police stations in San Francisco and was known as a great detective. But his life was radically changed by the tragic death of his wife. His wife died as a result of a detonation of a bomb destined for Monk. The tragedy seriously affected the psychological state of the detective, as a result of a nervous breakdown, he threw all his affairs, ceasing to contact with the surrounding world. The only person who was admitted to the main character in a period of despair was the nurse Sharon (actress Beattie Shram). Thanks to her sensitivity and care, the detective managed to return to her former life and work, but Monk had about three hundred different phobias: fear of heights, dirt, touch, fire, crowds, dogs and cats, darkness, etc.

All described events are told during the initial episodes of the first season of "Defective Detective". Actors from the crew of the project call them a prologue.

Phobias are not a hindrance

Despite the state of the detective, the police department now and then resorts to the help of Adrian in the investigation of dead end cases, because the main character from childhood notices all the minor details. This unique ability is appreciated by his colleagues and hated by enemies. According to actor Tony Shaluba, who does not have serious phobias, after participating in a television movie, he does not cease to think about the most common things with concern. Now he regularly washes his hands like his character.

The repeated winner of Emmy and Golden Globe awards is known to a wide audience on the series Wings, in which he played Antonio Scarpazzi and, of course, in the image of detective Monk, suffering from compulsive obsessive disorders, in the television movie Defective Detective. Actors-colleagues on the shop noted the irrepressible energy and sparkling positive Tony. And film critics expressed their benevolence, honoring the actor with three Emmy Awards, Golden Globe and the Screen Actors Guild of the United States.

Actors' Ensemble

The project "Defective detective story", the actors and roles of the main part of which will be listed below, received the attention of celebrities who gladly gave the viewer of the series their cameo. Among the most famous Italian John Turturro, the sexy model of Carmen Electra, an Englishman playing mostly antagonists - Malcolm McDowell, rapper Snoop Dogg, Oscar-winning blonde Jennifer Lawrence, politician and businessman Donald Trump and rock singer Alice Cooper. In the main ensemble ensemble of the series during all seasons were shot:

• Actress Beattie Shram. Played assistant detective, nurse Sharon Fleming. According to the idea of the authors, only it is able to calm down by appeasing the eccentricities of the protagonist, ex-detective, now consultant of the San Francisco police department - Adrian Monk. The character was present in the project during 1-3 and 8 seasons.
• The role of Natalie Tiger, Monk's second assistant after the irreplaceable Sharon, was played by Trail Howard. To the delight of the fans of the project, she was present in each season from 3 to 8th.

Also among the regular heroes is the captain of the San Francisco Police Department, Liland Stottlemeyer, who was portrayed on the screen by Ted Levine, and the police lieutenant Randy Disher, played by Jason Gray-Stanford. Both characters were present in each of the eight seasons.

Minor characters

Among the secondary characters, Natalie's daughter Julie Tiger (actress Emmy Clarke), Dr. Niven Bell (actor Hector Elizondo), who appears in the seventh season as the new psychotherapist of the protagonist, is considered to be particularly significant for the plot. The creators of the series "Defective detective" were forced to introduce this character in connection with the sudden death of actor Stanley Kamel, the performer of the role of Dr. Charles Kroger, who treated the protagonist from the first season. By the way, in the series Dr. Kroger also goes to another world as a result of a heart attack.

The agoraphobic of Embrose Monk, the detective's brother, was played by John Turturro. The father of the brothers Monk Jack, who appeared in only one episode of the fifth season, was played by Dan Hedaya. The son of Sharon Benjamin "Benji" Fleming, as he grew up on the screen, embodied in the first season of Max Morrow, and in 2 and 3 - Kane Rishot.