1. Amanda Tapping was born on 28 August 1965 and is a British-Canadian actress and director.
15 Facts About Amanda Tapping
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Amanda Tapping starred as Helen Magnus in the science fiction-fantasy television series Sanctuary.
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Amanda Tapping attended North Toronto Collegiate Institute, where she excelled in environmental science and drama.
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Amanda Tapping appeared in several television commercials and played a variety of roles in television and film productions, such as The Outer Limits and The X-Files.
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Amanda Tapping formed a comedy troupe, the "Random Acts", with collaborators Katherine Jackson and Anne Marie Kerr, in Toronto in the early 1990s.
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Amanda Tapping is best known for her portrayal of Samantha Carter in the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1, which debuted in 1997.
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Amanda Tapping served as both star and executive producer of the show.
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Amanda Tapping was a recurring character who appeared in seven episodes.
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Amanda Tapping reprised the role in season 13's "Funeralia", nearly five years after the character's apparent death.
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Amanda Tapping was named as ACTRA's 2015 Woman of the Year.
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Amanda Tapping's directing debut was during the seventh season of Stargate SG-1 on an episode titled "Resurrection", written by co-star Michael Shanks.
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Amanda Tapping has directed three episodes of Primeval: New World, three episodes of Continuum, and four episodes of Olympus and more recently episodes of Dark Matter, Van Helsing, The Magicians, and Supernatural, as well as the historical drama X Company.
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Amanda Tapping directed five episodes of the Netflix series Travelers and the season finale of the 2017 series Anne with an E In 2022, Tapping directed two episodes of the television series Motherland: Fort Salem.
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Amanda Tapping is married to Allan Kovacs and they live together in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Amanda Tapping has openly shared the difficult experiences she has undergone through eight miscarriages during her marriage in hope that her story would help other miscarrying women feel less isolated.