Ask AP: Hector Elizondo

Celebrities, Celebrity Q&A, People
on October 19, 2008

I’ve seen actor Hector Elizondo in dozens of TV shows and movies. What can you tell us about him?

—Sybil Sanderson, Arlington, Texas

Few inactive periods exist in the long and varied acting career of Elizondo, 71, who currently appears as a psychiatrist on the NBC series Monk. His resume includes more than 125 TV shows and movies, including Pretty Woman, Runaway Bride and The Princess Diaries. Off camera, the New York-born actor is a passionate spokesman for awareness of Alzheimer’s disease, which claimed his mother and her four sisters. “I got involved to help caregivers take better care of themselves by being informed,” he says. He’s been married for nearly 40 years to Carolee Campbell, an actress who appeared in the 1960s daytime drama The Doctors.