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Rene Auberjonois. Actor: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth name. René Murat Auberjonois. Height. 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Bio. René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born.
- June 1, 1940
- December 8, 2019
René Murat Auberjonois (June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019 , Height: 6' 0" [1.83 meters]) was an American actor and director who was known for his versatile and nuanced performances across stage, television, and film.
Dec 9, 2019 · Prolific actor René Auberjonois, best known for his role as shape-shifter Changeling Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died at the age of 79.
- Overview
- Personal life
- Career
- Directing
- Appearances as Odo
- Additional appearances
- Episodes directed
- Star Trek interviews
- External links
René Auberjonois (1 June 1940 – 8 December 2019; age 79) was the actor best known for portraying Chief of Security Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also directed many episodes of the series. Prior to assuming the role of Odo, he appeared as Colonel West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, although his scenes were initially cut for the f...
Auberjonois was born in New York City on 1 June 1940. His father, Fernand Auberjonois, was a journalist, and his grandfather, also called René Auberjonois, a Swiss painter. His mother was Princess Laure Murat, who was descended from Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon Bonaparte's marshals and one-time King of Naples, and husband of Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon's youngest sister.
Actor Armin Shimerman, who played Odo's nemesis Quark on DS9, was a close friend of Auberjonois. They acted in a play together prior to DS9 and spent many hours together in make-up chairs while starring in DS9.
Auberjonois initially disliked DS9's season three premiere, "The Search, Part I", in which his orphan character, Odo, met his people, the Founders, for the first time and discovered his origin. Auberjonois felt part of Odo's mystery and vitality as a character stemmed from his not knowing where he came from. However, Auberjonois soon came to like the development because new twists were added as more was learned about Odo's past – whether Odo's loyalties would reside with the Founders and leaders of the Dominion or with the Federation, and whether others would trust Odo during the Dominion War added complexity to his character even after his origin was established. (DS9 Season 3 DVD special features)
Auberjonois died in December 2019 of metastatic lung cancer. He is the first regular actor on a Star Trek spinoff series to pass away.
Broadway
Auberjonois first performed on the Broadway stage in the late 1960s, beginning with a revival of William Shakespeare's King Lear and a play called A Cry of Players as part of the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center. Both productions ran from November 1968 through February 1969 with a total of 72 performances each; on A Cry of Players, he co-starred with Frank Langella, who later guest-starred on DS9. He also appeared in the short-running drama Fire! in 1969. In 1970, Auberjonois won a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye in Coco, which ran from 18 December 1969 through 3 October 1970. In 1972, Auberjonois co-starred with Stephen McHattie in a production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. During the 1970s, he appeared in several plays including the musical Tricks (1973) and Break a Leg (1979). Auberjonois received a second Tony Award nomination in 1974 for his role in The Good Doctor (opposite Christopher Plummer) and a third nomination in 1985 for playing The Duke in Big River. He also won a Drama Desk Award as Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for Big River. Auberjonois performed in Big River from its premiere on 25 April 1985 until 2 September of that year, when his role as The Duke was recast. By 8 October, future Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner had taken over the role which Auberjonois had originated; in January 1986, the role of The Duke went to TNG guest actor Ken Jenkins. Another TNG guest actor, Bob Gunton, played the role of The King in Big River during both Auberjonois' and Spiner's tenures. Auberjonois received yet another Tony Award nomination, as well as a Drama Desk nomination, for his dual role in the musical comedy City of Angels (with Herschel Sparber), which ran from 1989 through 1992. In 1989 he also appeared in Metamorphosis. Auberjonois later starred on Broadway in Dance of the Vampires from December 2002 through January 2003 and Sly Fox in 2004.
Voice-over work
Auberjonois became well-versed as a voice actor. In 1979, Auberjonois was one of the uncredited voice actors for Star Blazers along with Kenneth Meseroll and Christopher Collins. He was the voice of Sandor for its third season, The Bolar Wars. Among his other early voice-over roles was providing additional voices in The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang (1980/1981). During the 1980s and 1990s he provided voices for many television series such as The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries, SuperFriends: The Legendary Super Powers Show (with James Avery), Challenge of the GoBots (with Brock Peters), The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (with Robert DoQui), DuckTales, The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley (with Robert Ito), Superman (with Alan Oppenheimer), Snorks, The Smurfs, Timeless Tales from Hallmark, Darkwing Duck, Batman: The Animated Series, The Pirates of Dark Water, Bonkers (with Ron Perlman), Mighty Max (with Kate Mulgrew), Aladdin, Richie Rich, Extreme Ghostbusters (with Clyde Kusatsu), and Men in Black: The Series (with Jennifer Lien and Charles Napier). Interestingly, Auberjonois lent his voice to an animated series called Wildfire in 1986, which revolved around a horse. His DS9 co-star, Nana Visitor, starred in a live-action TV series called Wildfire in 2005 – also about a horse. Auberjonois continued his voice work for television in the 2000s with series such as The Legend of Tarzan (with Olivia d'Abo, Brock Peters, and James Avery), The Mummy (with Charles Napier), Justice League (with Kurtwood Smith, Brian George, Ron Perlman, and Michael Dorn), Xiaolin Showdown, Duck Dodgers (with Michael Dorn and Richard McGonagle), Xyber 9: New Dawn, and Avatar: The Last Airbender. He reprised his role from The Legend of Tarzan for the 2002 direct-to-video movie Tarzan & Jane. Among his later voice credits are episodes of Young Justice (2010, with Bruce Greenwood and Keith Szarabajka), Dan Vs. and The Looney Tunes Show (both 2011), and Winx Club: Beyond Believix (2012). In addition, between 2010 and 2014 he appeared in three episodes of Archer, had a recurring role in Ben 10: Omniverse, and starred in Pound Puppies; in 2015 he lent his voice to the television movie Buddy: Tech Detective and two episodes of Avengers Assemble. One of his first movie voice roles was as "The Skull" in the 1982 The Last Unicorn, followed by Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (with Alan Oppenheimer and Michael Bell) in 1989. Perhaps his most famous voice-over work was Walt Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989), in which he voiced the French chef, Louis. Gerrit Graham, Kenneth Mars, and Hamilton Camp also lent their voices to this film. In 1994 he reprised this role for the eponymous television series, with Bradley Pierce. In 1997, he voiced for Cats Don't Dance; future Star Trek: Enterprise star Scott Bakula and John Rhys-Davies also supplied voices in this film. 1998 saw him voice for An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (with Ron Perlman) and 2000 for Geppetto, alongside Brent Spiner. In 2001, he also had an uncredited voice-over role in the live-action Disney movie The Princess Diaries. In 2003 he voiced a role in the video short Kids' Ten Commandments: The Rest Is Yet to Come (with Paul Winfield in one of his last roles). In 2005, he voiced the character known as Mr. Sneaps in Geppetto's Secret; Armin Shimerman voiced a character in that production as well. In 2005, he also provided the English voice for a character in the Studio Ghibli anime feature The Cat Returns (with additional voices by Bradley Pierce). In 2014 he voiced a role in Planes: Fire & Rescue (with Teri Hatcher). Among his most frequent collaborators in voice work were Hamilton Camp, Kenneth Mars, Clive Revill, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Frank Welker. In addition to his participation in Star Trek video games, Auberjonois provided voices for several other video games. In 1999, he voiced a role in Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, with Carolyn Seymour and John de Lancie. Starting in 2001, he had a recurring part in the Legacy of Kain game series as the ancient vampire Janos Audron. This series also contained voice roles from Trek alumni Michael Bell, Simon Templeman, and Tony Jay. In 2002 his voice was featured in New Legends (with James Horan) and Command & Conquer: Renegade. He also voiced roles in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007, with Brian George and Lee Arenberg), two games of the Uncharted franchise (with Richard McGonagle), Ben 10 Omniverse 2, and Skylanders: SuperChargers (with Diedrich Bader). In 2010, he lent his voice to Fallout: New Vegas (which also featured his fellow DS9 alumnus Michael Dorn, as well as William Sadler, Wil Wheaton, and Ron Perlman) as the mysterious autocrat Mr. House. Notably, Auberjonois even lent his voice to a Star Trek parody. He portrayed an animated version of Odo in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story!, a direct-to-DVD movie based on the hit animated FOX series Family Guy (created by Seth MacFarlane). Auberjonois supplied the voice of Odo in a scene which parodied Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Auberjonois was one of only five actors to have appeared in both Batman: The Animated Series and a live-action movie based on the Batman comics franchise – the others being Ed Begley, Jr., John Glover, Vincent Schiavelli, and US Senator Patrick Leahy.
Prior to the eight DS9 episodes he directed, Auberjonois had directed two episodes of Marblehead Manor in 1987 and 1988, which starred Phil Morris.
•DS9: Every episode except:
•"Paradise" (Season 2)
•"By Inferno's Light" (Season 5)
•"Change of Heart" (Season 6)
•"Far Beyond the Stars"
•"Strange Bedfellows" (Season 7)
Additional voice credits
•Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Harbinger as Odo •Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Fallen as Odo •Star Trek Online as Odo •Fallen Heroes (narrator) •Warped (narrator) •The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two (narrator)
•DS9:
•"Prophet Motive"
•"Family Business"
•"Hippocratic Oath"
•"The Quickening"
•"Let He Who Is Without Sin..."
•DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Section 31-Hidden File 03" (interview from 18 September 1992)
•DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Section 31-Hidden File 04" (interview from 18 September 1992)
•DS9 Season 1 DVD special feature "Deep Space Nine Scrapbook Year One" (interview from 18 September 1992)
•DS9 Season 3 DVD special feature "Crew Dossier: Odo"
•DS9 Season 5 DVD special feature "Section 31-Hidden File 01"
•DS9 Season 5 DVD special feature "Section 31-Hidden File 02"
•ReneFiles.com – official fan site
•Rene Auberjonois at Wikipedia
•René Auberjonois at the Internet Movie Database
•René Auberjonois at the Internet Broadway Database
•Rene Auberjonois at StarTrek.com
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Dec 8, 2019 · René Auberjonois, best known for his roles in “Boston Legal” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” died at his home in Los Angeles due to metastatic lung cancer. He was 79.
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