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 So, yes, the five years that we`ve been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine. I really do the conventions now for two reasons.
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I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
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The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
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At this point we`ve answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It`s fun.
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Paramount wanted a sex thing on Enterprise. And a nostalgic feel, like a return to the real old show. It was enough to have one neurotic Star Trek!
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The best scene is the last great scene I did.
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I`m never going to retire.
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I did a voice for Odo, but people don`t recognize you by your voice.
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I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.
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My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness.
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I love the fact that it`s not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.
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And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn`t just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.
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And so I`ve always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.
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They`ve got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they`re not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn`t, like, pan out the way they had hoped.
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I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I`m not a trained artist, I couldn`t sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
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For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.
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It always takes awhile to find out who the characters are.
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If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.
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I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.
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The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered.
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Well, I`m a character actor, and actually throughout my life I`ve... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I`ve done it.
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I don`t really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that`s nice if you do.
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How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?
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The only other series I worked on a regular basis was Benson, and that was a sitcom, so there really wasn`t a chance to go deeply into the characters.
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I`ve been thinking about this. My wife, Judith, is the best person in the world.
Trivia
Is mentioned in "Big Lou," the biography of actor Louis Edmonds, because he and Edmonds both starred in an avant garde Broadway play that flopped after just a few performances in the late 1960s. The play was called "Fire!", and it is covered in detail in "Big Lou."
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Has appeared with Michael Dorn in five different productions: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), "Aladdin" (1994), "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993), "The Savage Dragon" (1996) and "Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys" (1996).
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His mother was Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat.
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Siblings: Anne Auberjonois, Michael Auberjonois and 2 stepsisters named Ghislaine Vautier (author) as well as Marie-Laure Degener (opera performer).
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Both he and his "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) co-star Colm Meaney appeared in 'Stargate', playing the leader of a human civilisation on another planet whose population lived under the surface. In both cases, the main characters of the series in question attempted to form an alliance and arrange an exchange of technology before learning that this civilisation could not be trusted. Auberjonois played Alar, leader of the Eurondans in the "Stargate SG-1" (1997) episode 'The Other Side'; Meaney played Cowen, leader of the Genii in the "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004) episodes 'Underground' and 'The Storm'.
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In the same tradition as Jonathan Frakes, of "TNG" reprising Cmdr. Riker, Auberjonois voiced his Constable Odo from "DS9" for an episode of "Family Guy".
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His father was French, his maternal grandmother was an American, from Cincinnati, Ohio, his maternal grandfather`s mother was a Russian Noblewoman, and his maternal grandfather`s paternal grandmother was also an American, from Charleston, South Carolina.
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His maternal grandfather`s father was a second cousin of Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851-1921), US Attorney-General.
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Appears in both Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Forever.
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Turned down the role of Father Mulcahey in the TV series M*A*S*H. He had played the role in the 1969 motion picture version.
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Turned down the role of Bosley in Charlie`s Angels.
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Outside of the "Star Trek" (1966) cast, he is the oldest "Star Trek" cast member.
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Has appeared in two different productions which featured a character named General Hammond: MASH (1970) and "Stargate SG-1" (1997).
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Grandson of well-known Swiss post-impressionist painter Rene Auberjonois (1872-1957).
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Son of Pulitzer Prize-nominated Swiss journalist and author Fernand Auberjonois (1910-2004).
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Is one of only 32 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) and then in one of the spin offs.
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Tried changing his surname very early on to "Aubert" because casting directors were unable to pronounce "Auberjonois." When he discovered that his new name caused just as much trouble, he decided to keep the real one.
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On his mother`s side, Rene is descended from Joachim [Napoléon] Murat, King of Naples and King of Sicily, formerly Grand-Duke of Berg and Kleve, and his wife (Marie Annonciade) Caroline Bonaparte, sister of the famous Napoleon.
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Taught acting at Juilliard.
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Graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University.
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His mother was Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat. She was born on November 13, 1913 and died on May 10, 1986.
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Won Broadway`s 1970 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Musical) for "Coco." He was also nominated as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) in 1974 for "The Good Doctor," and as Best Actor (Featured Role - Musical) in 1985 for "Big River" and in 1990 for "City of Angels."
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Has two children, Tessa Auberjonois and Remy Auberjonois.
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Spouse: Judith Helen Mahalyi (19 October 1963 - present) 2 children
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Born in NYC
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