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Lexa Doig Profile |
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Birth Date: June 8, 1973
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Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Birth Name: Alexandra L. Doig
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Height: 5'6"
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Biography |
Lexa Doig is a Canadian actress who uses the stage
name Lexa Doig. She is best known for her role as Rommie in
the science fiction TV series Andromeda.
Doig is of Irish and Scottish descent on her father's side,
and Filipina on her mother's. She was born and raised in
Toronto, where her family held season tickets to their local
theatre. Doig wanted to be an actress at the age of nine
after seeing a production of Porgy and Bess. At sixteen, she
enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up
by an agent. Doig did commercials and model work, before
dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue
an acting career. She worked on stage productions of Romeo
and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for
film and television roles.
Doig enjoys reading, rollerblading, playing RPG video games
and Dungeons and Dragons. Her cousin is actor Rey-Phillip
Santos. On August 2, 2003 she married Stargate SG-1 actor
Michael Shanks. The two welcomed a daughter, Mia Tabitha, on
September 13, 2004 and a son, Samuel David, in March 2006.
The family divide their time between Toronto and Vancouver
(where Shanks' series Stargate is filmed) with plans to move
to Los Angeles in the near future.
Doig had a small role on Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final
Conflict, but her first significant role was on William
Shatner's series TekWar. Doig played "Cowgirl", a specialist
in tracking and obtaining information from the net.
Doig landed the role of Tina Backus on the short-lived
series CI5: The New Professionals in 1998. In 2000 Doig was
in another Roddenberry series, Andromeda. She protrayed the
artificial intelligence of the title ship in dual roles- as
seen on viewscreens or holograms, and a seperate android
avatar called Rommie.
In 2001, Doig was the female lead in the horror film Jason
X. Doig also appeared in several episodes for the ninth
season of Stargate SG-1 in a recurring role as doctor
Carolyn Lam. She also has a recurring role as college
professor Wendy Paulson in the second season of The 4400. |
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Her father, David, is of English and Scottish ancestry.
Mother Gloria is Filipina.
Divides her time between Vancouver (where she works) and
Toronto (where she grew up).
She has an older brother named Ted.
Cousin of actors Rey-Phillip Santos and Rowland Santos.
Wife of Michael Shanks.
Daughter, Mia Tabitha Shanks, born September 13, 2004
Studied American Sign Language as a teenager.
Met her husband, "Stargate SG-1" (1997) star Michael Shanks,
when he guest-starred in the "Andromeda" (2000) Season One
episode "Star-Crossed".
Appeared in Jason X (2001) alongside her "Andromeda" (2000)
co-star Lisa Ryder. In the film, Doig played a human and
Ryder played an android while on "Andromeda" (2000), the
opposite is true.
Appeared with Torri Higginson in TekWar (1994) (TV),
_"TekWar" (1994)_ , TekWar: TekLords (1994) (TV) and
Jungleground (1995) who co-starred with her husband Michael
Shanks in "Stargate SG-1" (1997) and "Stargate: Atlantis"
(2004).
Dropped out of high school in grade 13 (OAC).
Was a rhythmic gymnast as a child.
Son, Samuel David Shanks, born March 19, 2006 |
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