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Ruafo

As Ru'afo (1998).

Actor F. Murray Abraham (born 24 October 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) portrayed the villainous Ahdar Ru'afo, a member of the Son'a race, in the 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection.

Abraham has had a long and distinguished acting career. He has also had significant roles in such films as The Big Fix (1978, with Fritz Weaver, Nicholas Coster, William Glover, and Jorge Cervera, Jr.), Scarface (1983, with Harris Yulin and Mark Margolis), and The Name of the Rose (1986, with Christian Slater and Ron Perlman). However, he is perhaps best known for his Best Leading Actor Academy Award-winning performance in the 1984 film Amadeus.

In 1990, he made an uncredited appearance in the film The Bonfire of the Vanities. This film starred other Star Trek alumni such as Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Richard Libertini, and Kirsten Dunst. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress Terry Farrell also appeared uncredited in the film.) He went on to make an amusing cameo as "Dr. Harold Leecher" (a parody of Dr. Hannibal Lecter) in the 1993 comedy National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1. William Shatner co-starred in this film, while James Doohan, Charles Napier, and Whoopi Goldberg had cameos.

His other motion picture credits include Beyond the Stars (1989, with Olivia d'Abo), Mobsters (1991, with Christian Slater and Seymour Cassel), Last Action Hero (1993), Dillinger and Capone (1995, with Jeffrey Combs, Catherine Hicks, and Clint Howard), Mighty Aphrodite (1995, with David Ogden Stiers), Finding Forrester (2000), and Thir13en Ghosts (2001). Abraham had major roles in all of thse films.

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