Max Grodénchik


Max Grodénchik, also known as Michael Grodénchik, is an American stage, film, and television actor, best known for his role as Rom, a recurring character on the television series .

Biography

Born to a Jewish family in New York City, Grodénchik worked in theater during the 1980s as Michael Grodénchik, where his performances received notice. Of his 1980 performance in John O'Keefe's All Night Long, Sarasota Herald-Tribune art reviewer Marcia Corbino wrote that Grodénchik was an intriguing actor who had "an enchanting, mobile comic face on which aberrant emotions flicker, spread, retreat, retrench and explode with a single instant."

Television

Grodénchik is better known for his portrayal of the fictional character Rom on '. He had previously auditioned for the role of Rom's brother Quark, but the role was given to Armin Shimerman. The two both guest-appeared on opposite teams in the short lived British Sci-Fi Quiz show Space Cadets, in 1997.
Grodénchik is also a baseball player and considered going pro before deciding to become an actor. In the ' episode Take Me Out to the Holosuite, Grodénchik's character Rom is the clumsiest baseballer on his team, so Grodénchik had to play left-handed to look clumsy.
He played Sovak and Par Lenor in episodes "Captain's Holiday" and "The Perfect Mate". He is famous for being an expert on the Rules of Acquisition and can quote them by memory. He played Gint, the writer of those rules and the first Grand Nagus, in a dream sequence involving Quark.
In Spring 2007, Grodénchik attended the annual Vulcan Spockdays ceremony.

Voice work

In summer 2018, Grodénchik reprised the roles of Rom and Sovak in Star Trek Onlines Deep Space Nine-themed expansion pack Victory Is Life.

Personal life and family

Max Grodénchik lives with his wife and daughter in Austria, in the small hamlet of Nußbach in the county Kirchdorf an der Krems.
Grodénchik's brother Barry Grodenchik is a former New York State Assemblyman and Deputy Borough President of Queens. In December 2015, Barry was inaugurated to the New York City Council, representing District 23.

Episodes in ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''