Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949 in Lakewood, New Jersey) is an American actor, voice actor and author. A veteran of genre television and respected character actor, Shimerman is perhaps best-known for playing the Ferengi bartender Quark in the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Andrew Ryan in BioShock, and Dr. Nefarious in the Ratchet & Clank series.
Roles
- 1987–1990 Beauty and the Beast as Pascal
- 1990 Cop Rock as Mersky
- 1991-1992 Brooklyn Bridge as Bernard
- 1993-1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Quark
- 1995 Star Trek: Voyager as Quark
- 1996 Seinfeld as Stan the Caddy
- 1997-1999 Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Principal R. Snyder
- 2000-2008 The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy and Evil Con Carne as General Skarr
- 2002 Charmed as The Wizard
- 2004 Crossing Jordan as Dr. McCain
- 2004 ER as Levine
- 2004-2021 Ratchet & Clank as Doctor Nefarious
- 2005 Justice League Unlimited as Dr. Achilles Milo
- 2005 Psychonauts as Augustus Aquato (Raz's dad)
- 2005 Jade Empire as Abbot Song and Emperor Sun Hai
- 2006 Ben 10 as Slix Vigma
- 2006 NUMB3RS as The Art-Authentication Board Member
- 2007 Bioshock as Andrew Ryan
- 2009 Leverage as Dr. Patemkin
- 2009–2010 Batman: The Brave and the Bold as Calculator, Psycho-Pirate, Prof. Mark Haley and Second Guardian
- 2010 Warehouse 13 as Charlie Martin
- 2010-2015 StarCraft II as Emil Narud and Mohandar
- 2019 World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth as King Mechagon
