SAN  DIEGO  � 
Shelley  Malil  had a busy career as a comic actor, appearance in a huge hit movie, several TV  shows and a commercial that aired during the Super  Bowl.  But  the player best known for his part in "The  40-Year-Old  Virgin"  has now been charged with attempted slay after his girlfriend was stabbed more than 20 times, authorities said.
Malil,  43, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday  afternoon in Vista,  north of San  Diego,  aforesaid Paul  Levikow,  a spokesman for the San  Diego  County  District  Attorney's  office.
He  remained in custody on $2 one thousand thousand bail after being charged with attempted murder with special circumstances of forethought, causing slap-up bodily injury and using a deadly weapon, aforementioned Deputy  District  Attorney  Steven  Carver.  Malil  faces a maximum sentence of life in prison house if convicted on all counts.
Authorities  confirmed the victim's identity as Kendra  Beebe.  According  to her Facebook  page, she is a 35-year-old mother of deuce who works as an insurance broker in Carlsbad,  a coastal suburb.
She  was listed in critical condition Monday,  according to the San  Diego  Sheriff's  Department.  Spokeswoman  Jan  Caldwell  said Tuesday  she had no update on Beebe's  condition.
Eve  Salony,  wHO lives across the street from Beebe,  told the San  Diego  Union-Tribune  that Beebe  was having dinner party with a date in her back yard on Sunday  when Malil  showed up and "got into the initial scuffle" with Beebe's  date. Salony  aforesaid the particular date "got scared and he ran over here. He  was bleeding."
Chuck  Lee,  32, who lives next door to Beebe,  told the Union-Tribune  that he was watching TV  when he heard Beebe  screaming and went to help.
Lee  aforementioned he saw a man with a knife on Beebe's  front patio, restraining the woman.
"I  kept relation him, 'You  don't require to do this,'" Lee  said. He  aforementioned the man kept expression, "Look  at what she did to me."
A  cleaning woman who answered the earphone at Beebe's  office declined to scuttlebutt to The  Associated  Press.
Malil's  agent, Mark  Measure,  as well declined to comment.
Malil  starred in a Budweiser  commercial that aired during the 2001 Super  Bowl.  He  played a co-worker, Haziz,  to comedian Steve  Carell's  title character in "The  40-Year-Old  Virgin."
The  Associated  Press  called Malil's  partnership with Gerry  Bednob  in the movie ane of the "Top  10 Overlooked  Performances  of 2005."
He  has likewise appeared in dozens of TV  shows including "NYPD  Blue"  and "Scrubs."
Malil,  world Health Organization lives in the Sherman  Oaks  section of Los  Angeles,  had taken the train to Oceanside  on Monday  night to foregather his lawyer, who had joined the actor's category members and friends in persuading him to turn himself in, deputies said.
Deputies  found the victim on Sunday  night while responding to reports of screams for help and break glass in San  Marcos,  about 15 miles eastward of Oceanside.
Attempts  to identify and reach Malil's  attorney for scuttlebutt were unsuccessful.
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Associated  Press  Writer  Christina  Hoag  contributed reportage from Los  Angeles.
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