Is Adrian Monk Jewish?

Question

From the Monk espisodes, he looks Jewish, infact he looks Mizrachi.

Answer 1

Shalhoub was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he was raised. His father, Joe Shalhoub, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at the age of ten. He later married Shalhoub’s mother, Helen, a second-generation Lebanese-American, and founded a family company from the humble start of one grocery store in the center of Green Bay. Tony is the second youngest of ten children.

Tony Shalhoub’s brothers and sisters introduced him to the theater. When Tony was just six years old, one of his elder sisters volunteered her little brother to play an extra in a high school production of The King and I. Even though the young Tony was left standing on the wrong side of the curtain during the final dress rehearsal, he became addicted to the theater. Tony graduated from Green Bay East High School, with his senior peers finding him the best dressed and most likely to succeed. He then graduated with a bachelor’s degree in drama from the University of Southern Maine in Portland, and earned a master’s degree from the Yale School of Drama in 1980.

Answer 2

His character is a germephobe ditective and meant to be american. But no mention of him being Jewish. But he looks Mizrahi because Tony Shalhoub, who plays monk, Is Lebanese. Tony is a Maronite from what i have heard.

Answer 3

I have never thought he looked or acted Jewish.

Answer 4

He is Lebanese.

Answer 5

he is lebanese he is probably christian.