Just who is Oded Fehr?  He was reared in Tel Aviv, Israel. His father is of German descent and his mother is Dutch-Spanish descent. His older siblings were born in the United States while his father was a scientist here. He was born after the family moved to Israel. His parents divorced when he was 15 and his father moved to Frankfurt, Germany.

At age 18 and after high school he finished his compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces Army/Navy and qualified for three different universities: "Tel Aviv University for business and Haifa for psychology and Jerusalem for something else, just in case," he said in an interview. While in the Navy he spent most of his time doing intelligence and counter-intelligence work though he never did anything physically dangerous. This unknowingly helped in his present career of acting when he played Frank Donovan in UC Undercover. ?I loved the work - a lot of it applies to my job on UC Undercover. I know how to infiltrate small groups, gather information and set up security procedures and use all kinds of surveillance equipment, Oded said in an interview with TV Close Up, November 2001.

After his tour of duty was over following the Gulf War Oded decided to spend some time with his father while studying business administration at a local university there. "I was convinced that I would work for my father's marketing and communications company but lost interest six months later," he recalls in the same interview with Close Up TV. "The only thing that kept my sanity was a drama course at the English Theatre in Frankfort. He decided he wanted to be an actor from the moment he stepped on the stage in a production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversion in Chicago.  His father surprised him by approving of his career choice. Telling him to go to the best school there was.

So he chose the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in England. He enrolled from 1994-1997 at the school then moved to London to ply his acting classes in an obscure stage production of  Don Juan Comes Back From The War. He got bit parts in to British series The Knock and Killer Net, but that was not giving him enough income to live on so he worked odd jobs including security and El Al, the Israeli Airlines. He felt his acting career was not getting off to a good start and decided he had nothing to lose in auditioning for the character of Ardeth Bay.  He auditioned in front of director, Stephen Sommers and got the part changing his life and giving him a fresh start in his career of acting.

Oded has said in many interviews that he owes his career to Stephen Somers. He had the ending of The Mummy rewritten just so he could keep Oded for the sequel, The Mummy Returns. Oded thinks that everyone will figure out one day he can"t act and his career will be over. Although he has had been in two cancelled TV show (due to the networks not giving them a chance; not because of his acting abilities) plus has been in such movies as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Texas Ranger, Cleopatra, Arabian Nights and the soon to be released Resident Evil 2, Oded is slowly establishing himself as a memorable actor.

Oded has a large fan following and many fan fiction stories are out there using the characters he has portrayed and has even inspired a few original characters. He has made quite an impression on the lady fans especially with his handsome looks and incredible smile. He also made quite an impression on Rhonda Tollefson. They met at a dinner party following the premiere of the Los Angeles Opera season; Oded claims that it was not as romantic as it sounds. "We ended up sitting next to each other, chatting and we became friends," he said in the article for TV Close Up. By the time I proposed, I kind of knew she would say yes. And we got married about a year later.

He did have a difficult time convincing Rhonda he was a regular guy. Not like some actors who would like to date a producer just to get work. Oded did win her over though and says this about his wife. She's a wonderful woman and I'm a very lucky man." They married in December 2000.

When asked the question by NYPOST.COM: What he would be doing if not acting, he said the following. "I love kids so I think I would be a kindergarten teacher. I actually think some days of chucking it all and opening a preschool."

Oded and Rhonda both love children and in January of 2003 their first child Atticus was born. Named after the lead character in the book To Kill A Mockingbird Oded's favorite book. Oded now has a daughter as well who they named Finley who was born in February of 2006.   Origin of the name is unknown at this time.  Oded and Rhonda are also active with the charity Kids Cancer Connection, the children there are his heroes. He had this to say about them in the NYPOST.COM article.

"The kids from the Kids Cancer Connection are my heroes. These children fight the worst enemy of all, cancer. One time a 13 year old said about a 5 year old. It is sad that he never got to experience life as I did."

To see an article on how Rhonda got involved in Kids Cancer Connection. Click here.