

Auberjonois' mother, Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat, was a great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire), and his wife-Napoleon's youngest sister- Caroline Bonaparte.

His father, Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer. House in Fallout: New Vegas (2010) Karl Schafer in the Uncharted video game series and Odo in Star Trek Online.Īuberjonois wrote that his French family name, an uncommon one in the United States, means " armorer." Auberjonois was born in New York City. He provided the voice of Janos Audron in the Legacy of Kain series (2001-2003) the enigmatic Mr. In the American animated musical comedy film Cats Don't Dance (1997), Auberjonois voiced Flanagan.Īuberjonois performed as a voice actor in a number of popular video games. In films, Auberjonois portrayed Father Mulcahy in the film version of M*A*S*H (1970) the expedition scientist Roy Bagley in King Kong (1976) Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid (1989), in which he sang " Les Poissons" and Reverend Oliver in The Patriot (2000). He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989) he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River.Ī 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 (1979–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee, and Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal (2004–2008).

He 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 André Previn- Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. He was best known for portraying Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). René Murat Auberjonois ( / r ə ˈ n eɪ oʊ ˌ b ɛər ʒ ə n ˈ w ɑː/ J– December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director.
