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My Take
For me Armin Shimerman will always be Quark, the scheming Ferengi bartender who somehow became the moral conscience of Deep Space Nine across all seven seasons. What I admire is the craft hiding under all that latex: he made a comic alien genuinely human. Then he turned around and played Principal Snyder on Buffy, all dry menace, and voiced General Skarr too. That range from sympathetic rogue to petty tyrant shows a real character actor at work. The UCLA training shows. He's exactly the kind of performer who never carried a marquee but quietly made several beloved shows better.
Overview
Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949) is an American actor who played Quark the Ferengi in the Star Trek franchise, appearing as the character in all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999). He also had a recurring role as Principal Snyder in the first three seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–1999), and voiced General Skarr and other characters in the animated series The Grim Adventures of Bi…
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1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Armin Shimerman
- Name (Japanese)
- アーミン・シマーマン
- Reading
- あーみん・しまーまん
- Born
- November 5, 1949 (age 76)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Ox
- Origin
- Lakewood, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- stage actor / film actor / television actor / writer / voice actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Santa Monica High School
- University
- University of California, Los Angeles
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
5. Works & records
| Category | Title | Role | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notable work | Ratchet & Clank | — |
6. Links
Stage actor — see all → · Film actor — see all → · More people from United States →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.