Rene Auberjonois Net Worth

Rene Auberjonois's Quotes

• My wife, Judith, is the best person in the world.
• I'm never going to retire. I'll die with my boots on.
• I do the conventions now for two reasons. To raise money for Doctors Without Borders and travel.
• I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it.
• I did a different voice for Odo. When people hear my real voice, they're often confused.

Interesting Facts about Rene Auberjonois

1. Had two children: Tessa Auberjonois and Remy Auberjonois.
2. 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".
3. His mother was Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (November 13, 1913 - May 10, 1986) and on her side, René was the great-great-great-grandson of Joachim [Napoléon] Murat, King of Naples and King of Sicily, formerly Grand-Duke of Berg and Kleve, and of his wife (Marie Annonciade) Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte of France.
4. Attended and graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University.
5. Taught acting at Juilliard.
6. Tried changing his surname very early on to "Aubert" because casting directors were unable to pronounce "Auberjonois" (which is pronounced roughly as "oh-bear-zhon-wah"). When he discovered that his new name caused just as much trouble, he decided to keep the real one.
7. Was one of only 32 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (up to and including Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) and then in one of the spin-offs. His role in the original Star Trek was uncredited as Colonel West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (a film that counts as part of the original Star Trek series).
8. Grandson of well-known Swiss post-impressionist painter René Auberjonois (1872-1957).
9. Had appeared in two different productions which featured a character named General Hammond: M*A*S*H (1970) and Stargate SG-1 (1997).
10. Had appeared with Michael Dorn in six different productions: Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Aladdin (1994), The Savage Dragon (1995), Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (1996) and Fallout: New Vegas (2010).
11. Both he and his Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) co-star Colm Meaney appeared in "Stargate", playing the leader of a human civilization 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 civilization 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".
12. Outside of the Star Trek (1966) cast, he was the oldest Star Trek cast member until his death.
13. Turned down the role of John Bosley in Charlie's Angels (2000), which went to Bill Murray.
14. Turned down the role of Father Mulcahy on the television series M*A*S*H (1972). He had played the role in the 1969 motion picture version.
15. 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".
16. Had appeared in both Batman: The Animated Series (1992) and Batman Forever (1995), both as characters with the title of Doctor: Dr. March in the former and Dr. Burton in the latter. In the former, as Dr. March, he also made an homage to Batman (1989) with a line referring to bats as survivors.
17. His father was Swiss, of Swiss-French descent, and was born in Valeyres-sous-Montagny. René's maternal grandparents were Prince Michel Anne Charles Joachim Napoléon Murat, who was born in Oleksandrivs'k, Luhans'ka oblast, Ukraine, and Hélène Macdonald Stallo, who was born in 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. René's mother's ancestry was Russian, German, French, Corsican Italian, Scottish, English, and distant Tatar.
18. Siblings: Anne and Michael Auberjonois. Stepsiblings: Ghislaine Vautier (author) and Marie-Laure Degener (opera performer).
19. In the same tradition as Jonathan Frakes, of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) reprising Commander Riker, Auberjonois reprised Constable Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993) for an episode of Family Guy (1999).
20. He was awarded the 1982 Drama Logue Award for Outstanding Performance for "The Misanthrope" at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.