oded fehr biography

Oded Fehr was born on November 23rd of 1970 in Tel-Aviv, Israel to a father of German ancestry and a mother of both Spanish and Dutch descent. Oded has an older brother, an older sister (both of whom were born in the U.S.A.) and a younger half sister.

When Oded was 15, his parents divorced and his father moved to Frankfurt, Germany while his mother stayed in Israel. At age 18, Oded joined the Israeli Navy and worked mostly in intelligence and counter-intelligence. He served 3 years. Soon after that, Oded attended three different universities and joined his father in Germany where he planned to work with his father in marketing and telecommunications. After six months, he decided it wasn't the job for him. During all that time though, Fehr had attended a small drama course at the English Theatre in Frankfurt. Eventually this course landed him a role in a production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet.

From that moment, Fehr knew what profession he would like -acting. So with the approval of his father, he moved to London and attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School from 1994-1997. He then did a stage play at the Courtyard Theatre (London) called Don Juan Comes Back From War, in which he held the lead role.

Six months after his 1997 graduation from Bristol Old Vic, Fehr was cast as Ardeth Bay in the hit 1999 motion picture, The Mummy.Later that year, he also appeared in the comedy Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo opposite Rob Schneider. In 2001, he reprised his role as Ardeth Bay in the also successful The Mummy Returns

Since then, Fehr has picked up numerous roles on both the big screen and television. Oded had two short lived television series :NBC's UC: Undercover (2001) and CBS' Presidio Med (2003). His most recent television appearances included a guest role on The WB's Charmed (in 2005) and a large role in Showtime's Sleeper Cell (2005).

Recently, Fehr appeared as Carlos Olivera in Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) and is soon to appear in a film called Dreamer (2005) opposite Kurt Russell and Dakota Fanning.

about rhonda tollefson-fehr

Rhonda Tollefson-Fehr once worked alongside Sean Connery as a president of the production company Fountainbridge Films. This Los Angeles based company was later closed down (see May 2002 article here). Rhonda produced such films as the award winning Finding Forrester and the 1999 film, Entrapment.

Rhonda and Oded met at the L.A. Opera and were married on December 22nd, 2000. Their first son, Atticus, was born January 4th of 2003.

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