René Auberjonois Biography

Fast Facts

• Won Prism Award in 2007 for Performance in a Drama Series with a Multi-Episode Storyline for "Boston Legal․"
• Decided he wanted to be an actor while in Paris with his family, and when he returned to the states, he joined the artists' colony in Rockland County, New York, where he met the actor who would later give him his first job in theater, John Houseman
• His versatile voice has allowed him to voice many characters in animated films and video games, as well as record audiobooks and radio dramas
• Specializing in character parts instead of leading roles, he has played parts ranging from stuck-up aristocrats to schizophrenics with a taste for murder
• His lineage dates back to Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon Bonaparte's marshals and Napoleon's sister, Caroline Bonaparte
• Was the voice of the pivotal Mr․ House in the video game "Fallout: New Vegas․"