Armin Shimerman Interview - Quark, Star Trek Deep Space Nine & Buffy

Armin Shimerman talks to us whilst meeting fans at the Entertainment Media Show 2011 in Earls Court London.

Shimerman is best known for his role as the Ferengi bar owner Quark in the long running television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, though his involvement with the Star Trek franchise began with appearances as other Ferengi characters in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Last Outpost" and "Peak Performance". As the character Quark, Shimerman became one of Star Trek's most widely-known characters, and he appeared several times on the cover of TV Guide, either with other actors or alone as part of a collector's series. He says that his favorite episode of Deep Space Nine was "Little Green Men" as it was the only episode where he is shown captaining a ship.

Along with Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Michael Ansara and Richard Poe, he is one of only a few actors to play the same character on three different Star Trek series. He played Quark in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

In addition to Star Trek, Shimerman has had roles as Pascal on Beauty and the Beast and as Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also has starred in Stargate SG-1 as one of the Nox, an evil wizard in Charmed, appeared as Stan the caddy in an episode of Seinfeld, and as Dr. Patemkin on Leverage.

Shimerman has appeared as judge Brian Hooper in the third season of Boston Legal, joining fellow Star Trek actors William Shatner, Rene Auberjonois, and Ethan Phillips; Shatner played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, Auberjonois played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Phillips played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. His character even shared a scene with Auberjonois, with the strife between the two characters reminiscent of the conflict between Shimerman's Quark and Auberjonois's Odo.

Shimerman made an appearance as "The Terror" in The Tick live action series.

He appeared in the the series Numb3rs episode 'Provenance' as an art expert. He also appeared in the episode "Posse Comitatus" of The West Wing as Richard III, and had a cameo role in both What the Bleep movies.

Presented & Post by Russell Nelson
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[Playan1982]

A brilliant actor. Quark is awesome.

[whitee1992]

such a lovely bloke.

[TheNexzy]

u can hear clearly he is the voice of Andrew Ryan!!

[Hippiq]

Quark was the best character in DS9 - all ferengi guys ... but QUARK-ODO /// ODO - QUARK it was just brilliant .... and the scene when Odo was changing in his room waking up Quark and Quark coming down to his room in his pyjamas so pissed off was just legendary ! :D

[sunnchilde]

Iike Andy Robinson, he seem to really care. Care about the character, the trek 'universe', the fans. He also seems to care about the material itself, which is wonderful.

[argangediv]

I wonder how "Quark Confinement" fits in with the Odo? Without his makeup the lobes seems a bit small.

[argangediv]

Well you were not much of a son; but made a great daughter: Moogie

[jpwhitney8]

He's also the voice of Andrew Ryan from Bioshock

[cupcake5180]

Quark is a favorite character of mine! DS9 would not be as good without him! Awesome interview! 

[mariadoloresnelly]

love him in beauty and beast  tv show