Oded Fehr

Oded Fehr
Born	(1970-11-23) November 23, 1970 (age 41) Tel Aviv, Israel
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1998–present
Spouse	Rhonda Tollefson (2000-present)
Children	3

Oded Fehr (Hebrew: עודד פהר‎; born November 23, 1970) is an Israeli film and television actor now based in the United States. He is known for his appearance as Ardeth Bay in the 1999 remake of The Mummy and its sequel The Mummy Returns, as well as Carlos Olivera in Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Retribution, Faris al-Farik in Sleeper Cell, the demon Zankou in the TV series Charmed and Eli Cohn on the TV series V. Most recently, he portrayed Eyal Lavin, a Mossad agent, on the TV series Covert Affairs.

Career

Fehr's screen appearances include the 2001–02 NBC series UC: Undercover, the 2002–03 CBS series Presidio Med, and the 2004 movie release Resident Evil: Apocalypse (he reprised the role in the sequel, Resident Evil: Extinction). He provided the voice of Doctor Fate in Justice League Unlimited, played Antoine Laconte, a male prostitute in Rob Schneider's comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and made a cameo appearance as Antoine Laconte in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005). He also acted in the American hit supernatural series Charmed, where he played the evil demon Zankou, the chief villain in that series' seventh season.

Director Stephen Sommers was one of the people who helped in giving Oded his big break in the film The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

Between 2005–2006 Fehr played Farik on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell.

In 2010, Fehr guested in the fourth episode of USA's Covert Affairs as an Israeli Mossad operative. He has also appeared in the second episode of the second season titled "Good Advices", and appears to be a recurring character.

Fehr will return to the fifth installment of the Resident Evil series.

Personal life

Fehr was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, of Jewish heritage. His mother is a day care supervisor and his father is a German-born physicist.^[1][2] He has an older brother, a sister, and a younger half-sister. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England after taking a very brief drama class in Frankfurt, Germany. He served in the Israeli army from 1989 to 1992^[3] and used to work for security for El Al (Israel's airline) in Germany.

Fehr is married to Rhonda Tollefson, whom he met at a Los Angeles opera. They married on December 22, 2000. The couple have two children: son Atticus (born January 4, 2003), daughter Finley (born February 26, 2006). Fehr speaks Hebrew, English and some German.

Credits

Films

Theatrical releases

• Kiss of Fire (1998)
• The Mummy (1999) Ardeth Bay
• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) Antoine Laconte
• Texas Rangers (2000) Anton Marsale
• Bread and Roses (2000) Himself - Party Guest
• The Mummy Returns (2001) Ardeth Bay
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) Carlos Olivera
• Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005) Prince Sadir
• Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) Antoine Laconte
• Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) Carlos Olivera
• The Betrayed (2008) Alek
• Drool (2009) Cheb Fleece
• For the Love of Money (2011) Levi
• Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) Carlos Olivera

TV movies

• Killer Net (1998) Victor
• Cleopatra (1999) Egyptian Captain
• Arabian Nights (TV miniseries) (2000) Robber #2
• Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy? DTV (2005) Amahl Ali Akbar

Documentaries

• Game Over: 'Resident Evil' Reanimated DTV (2004) Himself
• Game Babes (2004) DTV Himself
• Corporate Malfeasance (2004) DTV Himself

TV series

• The Knock (1994–2000) Oded Fehr appeared in 1998
• UC: Undercover (2000) Frank Donovan
• Presidio Med (2002–2003) Dr. Nicholas Kokoris
• Charmed (2004-2005) as recurring special guest star playing the demon Zankou, the principal villain of the shows seventh.
• Sleeper Cell (2005–2006) Faris al-Farik
• Burn Notice (2008) Episode: Scatter Point
• Eleventh Hour (2008)
• Covert Affairs (2010) Episode: No Quarter
• Law and Order: Los Angeles (2010) Episode: Hollywood
• V (2011) Eli Cohn
• Covert Affairs (2011) Episode: Good Advices
• Covert Affairs (2011) Episode: A Girl Like You
• Jane by Design (2012) Episode: The Birkin & The Getaway

Animated series

• Justice League
  • "The Terror Beyond" (Parts 1 and 2) (2003) Dr. Fate
• Justice League Unlimited
  • "The Return" (2004) Dr. Fate
  • "Wake the Dead" (2004) Dr. Fate
  • "The Great Brain Robbery" (2005) Dr. Fate
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold
  • "Mystery in Space!" (2009) Equinox
  • "When OMAC Attacks!" (2009) Equinox
  • "The Fate of Equinox!" (2009) Equinox
  • "Time Out for Vengeance!" (2011) Equinox
• Young Justice
  • "Fireworks"(2010) Ra's al Ghul (credited as L-2)
  • "Targets" (2011) Ra's al Ghul

Guest appearances

• American Dad! Episode: "Stan of Arabia" (Part 2) (2005) Kazim
• Medium (2009) Dr. Thomas Statler

Video games

• Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest (2005)

References

External links

• Oded Fehr at the Internet Movie Database