Pia Zadora

Its destruction gained Zadora intense criticism. René Auberjonois married Judith Mahalyi in 1962 with whom he has two children, Tessa Auberjonois and Remy Auberjonois. The former home of silent screen stars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, the mansion was one of Hollywood's most famous privately owned properties. He was presented with a Tony Award for his performance. Zadora gained notoriety when she and her husband bought and demolished the Hollywood landmark mansion Pickfair in 1988. After graduating CMU, he worked with several different companies, eventually landing a role on Broadway in 1969, where he played alongside Katharine Hepburn in Coco. Her cover version of the Shirley Ellis hit, "The Clapping Song", reached the US Top 40 in 1983, and she had a minor hit with a duet with Jermaine Jackson titled "When The Rain Begins To Fall" in 1984. To complete his education, he enrolled at Carnegie-Mellon University.

In 1982 she received a nomination for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. He stated in a 1993 interview that Houseman was the person who had most influenced his career. She has attained some success as a singer, and has had several hit singles throughout the world. They worked together again later, when he taught under Houseman at The Juilliard School. Her film career has been a series of lows, with no hit films, and with further Golden Raspberries to her credit, including the "Worst New Star of the Decade" award in the 1989 Golden Raspberry Awards. One of the most influential contacts Auberjonois made during this period was Houseman, who gave him his first job in the theater at 16 years old, as an apprentice. She won a Golden Globe Award as 1982's "Most Promising New Star", but also won "Worst New Star" in the 1982 Golden Raspberry Awards. The environment only confirmed his decision to act, and he made important contacts that were to advance his career.

Born Pia Schipani in Hoboken, New Jersey she took her mother's maiden name as her stage name. When the family later moved back to the United States, it was to join an artist's colony in upstate New York whose other residents included Burgess Meredith, John Houseman and Helen Hayes. Pia Zadora (born May 4, 1954) is an American actress and singer. Auberjonois' family moved to Paris after World War II, where at an early age he decided to become an actor. His father, Fernand Auberjonois (1910-2004), was a Cold War era foreign correspondant, and his grandfather, also named René Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. On his mother's side, René is descended from Joachim Murat, King of Naples, and his wife Caroline Bonaparte, sister of the Emperor Napoleon.

René Auberjonois's mother was Princess Laure of Murat. West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and as the gangster Tony in Police Academy V: Mission to Miami. Some of the other roles he had played over the years include Father John Patrick 'Dago Red' Mulcahy in the movie version of M*A*S*H, Chef Louis in Disney's The Little Mermaid, Col. René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940 in New York, New York) is an American actor best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.