Armin Shimerman

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.

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

Occupation

stage actor / film actor / television actor / writer / voice actor

High school

Santa Monica High School

University

University of California, Los Angeles

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://www.arminshimerman.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/ShimermanArmin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3

Tags

• New Jersey
• stage actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.