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On the set of Star Trek: Insurrection
Actor F. Murray Abraham (born 24 October 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) portrayed the villainous Ahdar Ru'afo, a member of the Son'a race, in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection.
Abraham has had a long and distinguished acting career, which began with small roles in classic films such as They Might Be Giants (1971, with Eugene Roche), Serpico (1973), and All the President's Men (1976, with Stephen Collins, Nicholas Coster, and Richard Herd). He went on to have significant roles in such films as The Big Fix (1978, with Fritz Weaver, Nicholas Coster, William Glover, and Jorge Cervera, Jr.), Scarface (1983, with Harris Yulin and Mark Margolis), and The Name of the Rose (1986, with Christian Slater and Ron Perlman). He is perhaps best known, however, for his Best Leading Actor Academy Award-winning performance as Antonio Salieri in the 1984 film Amadeus. He is one of only two Star Trek performers to have been nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Actor in a Leading Role (the other being Paul Winfield) and the only one to have won the award.
In 1990 he made an uncredited appearance in the film The Bonfire of the Vanities. This film starred other Star Trek alumni such as Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Richard Libertini, and Kirsten Dunst. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Terry Farrell also appeared uncredited in the film.) Abraham went on to make a cameo as "Dr. Harold Leecher" (a parody of Dr. Hannibal Lecter) in the 1993 comedy National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1. William Shatner co-starred in this film, while James Doohan, Charles Napier, and Whoopi Goldberg had cameos.
His other motion picture credits include Beyond the Stars (1989, with Olivia d'Abo), Mobsters (1991, with Christian Slater and Seymour Cassel), Last Action Hero (1993), Dillinger and Capone (1995, with Jeffrey Combs, Catherine Hicks, and Clint Howard), Mighty Aphrodite (1995, with David Ogden Stiers), Finding Forrester (2000), and Thir13en Ghosts (2001). Abraham had major roles in all of these films.
In addition to his film career, Abraham has amassed an extensive resume of Broadway plays, from the Tony Award-nominated The Man in the Glass Booth in the late 1960s (co-starring Lawrence Pressman) to his Drama Desk Award-nominated starring role in Teibele and Her Demon in 1979-80 (co-starring Ron Perlman) to his portrayal of AIDS-inflicted attorney Roy Cohn in Tony Kushner's epic two-part masterpiece Angels in America in 1994 (working with Megan Gallagher). He also co-starred with Stephen Collins in the farcical comedy The Ritz in 1975 (Abraham starred in the film adaptation of this film the following year) and received his second Desk Drama Award nomination in 1992 for his role in A Life in the Theater.
External links
- F. Murray Abraham at Wikipedia
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- F. Murray Abraham at the Internet Broadway Database
- F. Murray Abraham at the Notable Names Database