Actor

Shelley Malil is a professional actor based in Los Angeles. His film roles include leads in Collateral Damage with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Crossing Over, Columbus Day, Holes, My Favorite Martian, El Cortez, Dead Man on Campus, and The 40-Year Old Virgin. Shelley has guest starred on such television shows as Seinfeld, E.R., The West Wing, Party of Five, Reba, Scrubs, Silk Stalkings, Luis, Mike Hammer P.I., The Jamie Foxx Show, NYPD Blue, Without a Trace, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and on Tracey Ullman's comedy special, Tracey Takes On. Shelley is perhaps best remembered for his award-winning "What Are You Doing?" commercials for Budweiser. (Pic1, Pic2, Pic3.) He has co-starred with Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tim Blake Nelson, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, John Leguizamo, John Turturro, John Stamos, Edward Asner, Elizabeth Hurley, Darryl Hannah, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Beau Bridges, James Earl Jones, Phil Hartman, James Coburn, Dennis Franz, Anthony LaPaglia, Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Jamie Foxx, Tracey Ullman, Patricia Arquette and many others. Shelley was selected as one of the ”Top 10 Overlooked Performances of 2005” by the Associated Press for his performance in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. He is the recipient of a Clio Award (for the Budweiser commercials), a Los Angeles Ovation Award as Best Featured Actor for his performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and was nominated for the Los Angeles Ovation Award for his performance in subUrbia. More Info: web page or Internet Movie Database.