By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | March 17, 2015 |
By Dustin Rowles | Celebrity | March 17, 2015 |
File this under incredibly arcane and almost certainly completely worthless trivia, but I couldn’t help but notice the appearance of the last name Auberjonois on two of my favorite dramas on Sunday night: The Good Wife and Shameless. Auberjonois is obviously not a very common name, but I do know that it belongs to the prolific television character actor Rene Auberjonois, best known to some of you as Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Clayton Runnymede Endicott III in Benson, but better known to me as Paul Lewiston in Boston Legal.
Auberjonois is a very recognizable but obscure last name, so when I saw it listed in the credits for The Good Wife and Shameless, I assumed there must be some relation. Sure enough, Tessa Auberjonois — who played Ian’s nurse on Shameless — is his daughter:
Meanwhile, his son Remy Auberjonois plays Frank Prady’s campaign manager on The Good Wife.
And now, I’m sure that the four of you who are familiar with Rene Auberjonois and watch both Shameless and The Good Wife must feel sufficiently enlightened.
You’re welcome!