Oded Fehr

Fehr was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, the son of Gila (née Lachmann), a day care supervisor, and Uri Ernst Fehr, a Jerusalem-born geophysicist and marketing executive.{{cite book|last1=Schneiderman|first1=Harry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c29mAAAAMAAJ&q=%22FEHR,+Uri,+US,+geophysicist%22|title=Who's Who in World Jewry: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews|last2=Carmin|first2=Itzhak J.|publisher=Pitman Publishing Corporation|year=1972|page=237|author-link=Harry Schneiderman}} His parents come from Ashkenazi Jewish families.{{cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF9AF9D590B3C5A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | title=He owes it all to 'Mummy' | first = Eirik | last = Knutzen | date = 5 November 2001 | work = The Washington Times | page = B5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014050828/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EF9AF9D590B3C5A&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM|archive-date=14 October 2012}}{{cite news |last=Tugend |first=Tom |date=25 November 2005 |title=Israeli actor plays Muslim terrorist in Showtime's Sleeper Cell |url=https://www.jweekly.com/2005/11/25/israeli-actor-plays-muslim-terrorist-in-showtime-s-sleeper-cell/ |access-date=19 August 2017 |work=The Jewish News of Northern California |location=Los Angeles}} He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England after briefly taking a drama class in Frankfurt, Germany. He served as a sailor in the Israeli Navy from 1989 to 1992{{cite web |date=1 December 2001 |title=Interview with Oded Fehr |url=http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/69_interview_with_oded_.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031222232746/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/69_interview_with_oded_.htm |archive-date=22 December 2003 |access-date=19 August 2017 |work=Somethingjewish.co.uk |publisher=JMT Ventures}} and used to work security for the Israeli airline El Al.

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Director Stephen Sommers cast Fehr in the films The Mummy and The Mummy Returns.

Fehr's screen appearances have included the 2001–02 NBC series UC: Undercover,{{cite news |date=28 December 2001 |title=Oden Fehr: from villain to hero on NBC series UC: Undercover |url=http://poststar.com/lifestyles/oden-fehr-from-villain-to-hero-on-nbc-series-uc/article_3b2e44a5-1e5f-5e5b-ac34-6455257b1f26.html |access-date=31 October 2013 |work=Zap2it |publisher=The Post-Star}} the 2002–03 CBS series Presidio Med, and the 2004 film Resident Evil: Apocalypse (he reprised the role in the sequel, Resident Evil: Extinction). He provided the voice of Doctor Fate in Justice League and its sequel Justice League Unlimited, and played Antoine Laconte, a male prostitute, in Rob Schneider's comedies Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005). He also acted in the American hit supernatural series Charmed, where he played the demon Zankou, the chief villain in that series' seventh season.

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

From 2010 to 2014 he portrayed a recurring character, Mossad Agent Eyal Levin on the TV series Covert Affairs. In 2013, he guest starred in the episode "Shiva" of the 10th season of CBS NCIS as an Israeli Mossad assistant director.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

Fehr returned to the fifth installment of the Resident Evil series, Resident Evil: Retribution. In 2019, Fehr appeared in the CBS drama Blood & Treasure, and began an ongoing role as Admiral Vance in Star Trek: Discovery.

Fehr married Rhonda Tollefson, whom he had met at the Los Angeles Opera, on December 22, 2000. The couple has three children: son Atticus (born 2003), and daughters Finley (born 2006) and Azelie (born 2010).{{cite web|url=http://www.odedfehr.de/oded.html |title=About Oded Fehr |access-date=20 April 2017 | work = Oded Fehr Appreciation Site | first = Bettina | last = Katzenberger}}

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