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."\n', 'He lives with his wife and daughter in Upper Austria.\n', '

Grodénchik is better known for his portrayal of the fictional character Rom on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 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.\n', '

Grodénchik is also a baseball player and considered going pro before deciding to become an actor. In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 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.\n', '

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