René Oberjonois is known to many for his role as Odo, the station's security chief, in the television series Star Trek. Deep space nine."
Rene Murat Auberjonois is a famous American film and theater actor, director, voice actor.
Biography
Rene Aubergeonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York, USA. His father, Fernand Auberjonois (1910-2004), was a Swiss-born, Cold War foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer.
Rene's paternal grandfather was a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter. The actor's mother, Princess Laura Louise Napoleon Eugenie Caroline Murat (Laure Louise Napoleone Eugenie Caroline Murat, 1913-1986), was the great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's marshals. It is also known that the great-great-great-grandmother of Rene Aubergeonois was the youngest sister of Napoleon Bonaparte - Caroline Bonaparte. And the great-great-grandmother of Rene Oberjonois, the mother of his maternal grandfather, was the Russian noblewoman Somova Evdokia Mikhailovna.
The actor had a brother and sister, as well as two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage. After World War II, his family moved to Paris. It was there, as a child, that Rene decided to become an actor. But a few years later, they returned to New York, USA, where Rene Aubergeonois took part in theatrical productions.
His family also lived in the UK for some time, where Rene Auberjonois graduated from London high school and studied theater at the same time. He then entered the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the United States, from which he graduated in 1962.
Career
Rene Aubergeonois took part in performances and television shows, starred in films, and also voiced films and cartoons, video game characters and participated in radio shows.
René Auberjonois has appeared in many theatrical productions in Los Angeles, California and New York. In 1968 he appeared on Broadway in three plays, one of which was William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear. In 1972 he played the role of Malvolio in Shakespeare's comedy "Twelfth Night", and in 1989 he got the main role in the production of "Metamorphosis" based on the novel by Franz Kafka. René Aubergeonois has also directed many theatrical productions.
Rene Auberjonois played John Mulcahy's father in the 1970 film Field Hospital. In 1971, he played Sheehan in McCabe and Mrs. Miller. The following year, he got the role of Hugh in Images (1972). In 1975 he played the role of Napier in the film "Hindenburg" directed by Robert Wise. In the 1976 film King Kong, Renee starred as Roy Bagley. In the same year, he also played the father of Kudos in the comedy "Big Bus". In 1978, Auberjonois took part in the thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, in which he played Donald Phelps. Then, in 1988, he played the role of gangster Tony in Police Academy 5: Destination Miami Beach.
In 1991, the actor played the role of Colonel West in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Then there were several cameo roles, including in the film directed by Joel Schumacher "Batman Forever" (1995). In 1999, Auberjonois was invited to play the role of Artemus Bradfood in the family comedy directed by David Kellogg "Inspector Gadget". In 2000, he co-starred with Mel Gibson in The Patriot, in which he played the Reverend Oliver.
Rene Aubergeonois took part in a large number of television series (over 30). One of the most famous TV series with his participation is "Star Trek. Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Enterprise, and Starsky & Hutch.
Oberjonois has voiced radio dramas, characters in video games, TV series and films. For example, the actor participated in the radio drama "The Stunt" by Mordechai Strigler, voiced minor characters in the animated series "Justice League", took part in the English dubbing of the anime films "Whisper of the Heart" and "Return of the Cat" written by Hayao Miyazaki. In 2005, Rene Aubergeonois voiced the role of Odo in the animated feature Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story, which is part of the Family Guy series, created by Seth Macfarlane.
One of the first video game characters to be voiced by Auberjonois was Janos Audron from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2. He also voiced this character in subsequent parts of Legacy of Kain. In 2007, Auberjonois voiced a minor character in the video game Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. He also voiced characters in games such as Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout: New Vegas, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen, Command & Conquer: Renegade.
During his life, Rene Aubergeonois has recorded more than twenty audiobooks. Thanks to him, audio versions of books such as Still Life with Crows (2003), Diogenes Trilogy, Helen Trilogy, Crimson Shore (2015), Verses for the Dead (2018) were published.
Personal life
Rene Auberjonois has been married to Judith Helen Mihaly since 1963. They have two children - the son of Remy Auberjonois and the daughter of Tessa Auberjonois. Remi and Tessa are both theater and film actors, just like their father.
The actor died on December 8, 2019 at his Los Angeles home after a long battle with lung cancer. At the time of his death, he was 79 years old.
