Rene Murat Auberjonois was an American actor and director.
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42 Facts About Rene Auberjonois
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Rene Auberjonois was best known for portraying Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Rene Auberjonois first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the Andre Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco.
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Rene Auberjonois went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor, Roger Miller's Big River, and Cy Coleman's City of Angels ; he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River.
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Screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson, for which he was an Emmy Award nominee, and Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal.
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Rene Auberjonois performed as a voice actor in a number of popular video games.
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Rene Auberjonois's father, Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer.
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Rene Auberjonois' mother, Laure Louise Napoleone Eugenie Caroline Murat, was a great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat, and his wife—Napoleon's youngest sister—Caroline Bonaparte.
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Rene Auberjonois had a sister and a brother, and two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage.
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Rene Auberjonois's maternal grandmother, Helene Macdonald Stallo, was an American from Cincinnati, Ohio; his maternal grandfather's mother was a Russian noblewoman, Eudoxia Michailovna Somova, and his maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother, Caroline Georgina Fraser, who was the wife of Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, was an American from Charleston, South Carolina.
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Rene Auberjonois family lived for a time in London, where Rene Auberjonois completed high school while studying theatre.
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Rene Auberjonois helped found the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Repertory Company in New York City.
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Rene Auberjonois was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1962 season.
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Rene Auberjonois appeared many times at the Mark Taper Forum, notably as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and as Stanislavski in Chekhov in Yalta.
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Rene Auberjonois appeared in the Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn work, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
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Rene Auberjonois made his debut at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC in 2008 as the titular character in Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid.
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Rene Auberjonois was on the advisory board of Sci-Fest LA, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, held in May 2014.
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In 2018, Rene Auberjonois was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
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Rene Auberjonois made cameo appearances in a number of films, including: Dr Burton, a mental asylum doctor patterned after Tim Burton, in Batman Forever, and a bird expert who gradually transforms into a bird in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud.
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Rene Auberjonois portrayed the character of Straight Hollander in the 1993 Miramax film The Ballad of Little Jo.
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In 2019, Rene Auberjonois portrayed the title role in Raising Buchanan as mediocre US president James Buchanan.
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Rene Auberjonois portrayed the character Fortunato in an episode of American Masters entitled "Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul".
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Rene Auberjonois received a third Emmy Award nomination for his performance in ABC's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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Rene Auberjonois played NASA scientist Dr Felix Blackwell in the episode "Phoenix" on NCIS.
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Rene Auberjonois lent his voice talents to the 2001 Public Broadcasting System American Experience documentary "Woodrow Wilson" as the title character, along with the 2003 PBS historical documentary Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites.
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Rene Auberjonois directed television shows, including Marblehead Manor, and various episodes of Deep Space Nine.
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Rene Auberjonois read "The Stunt" by Mordechai Strigler for the National Public Radio series Jewish Stories From the Old World to the New, and he recorded novels on tape.
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Rene Auberjonois's voice was heard in Disney's The Little Mermaid, and as The Skull in The Last Unicorn.
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Rene Auberjonois did voice work on the Challenge of the GoBots series in 1980s as Dr Braxis, Rene Auberjonois was the voice of Peter Parker on the 1972 Buddah Records Spider-Man LP "From Beyond the Grave", a radio-style narrative replete with sound effects and rock and roll song interludes provided by "The Webspinners", in which the characters of The Vulture, The Lizard, Green Goblin, The Kingpin, Aunt May and Doctor Strange appeared.
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Rene Auberjonois provided the voice of Professor Genius in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.
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Rene Auberjonois provided the voice for Janos Audron, an ancient vampire in the Legacy of Kain video game series; he was in Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, and Legacy of Kain: Defiance.
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Rene Auberjonois provided the voice of Angler in the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End video game.
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Rene Auberjonois provided minor character voices for Justice League, reprising his role as Desaad, and parts such as 2003's "In Blackest Night, " as Kanjar-Ro, a pirate testifying in the trial of the Green Lantern, and as a fellow member of the Green Lantern Corps in other episodes.
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Rene Auberjonois reprised an animated version of his character Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in a cutaway joke in Family Guys Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story.
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Rene Auberjonois was the voice of Leonard McLeish in the Pound Puppies series, Pepe Le Pew in 2011 on The Looney Tunes Show, Azmuth in Ben 10: Omniverse, and Ebony Maw in Avengers Assemble.
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Rene Auberjonois reprised his role as Odo in the game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen.
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Rene Auberjonois was married to his wife Judith Mihalyi from 1963 until his death in 2019.
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Rene Auberjonois then took the medication prescribed for assisted suicide and died at the age of 79.
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