1. Michael Shanks is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Dr Charles Harris in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope.
24 Facts About Michael Shanks
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Michael Shanks is known for his work on low budget genre work filmed in Canada.
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Michael Shanks later appeared in several stage productions while serving a two-year apprenticeship with the prestigious Stratford Festival in Ontario.
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Michael Shanks played archaeologist Dr Daniel Jackson throughout the first five seasons of Stargate SG-1 before leaving the show at the end of its fifth season, citing creative differences concerning the under-use of his character and the direction of the show as a whole.
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Michael Shanks made several guest appearances throughout the sixth season playing his own character, as well as voicing the Asgard character Thor.
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Michael Shanks returned for the seventh and subsequent seasons, winning the Leo Award for Best Lead Performance By A Male in a Dramatic Series in 2004 for the seventh season episode "Lifeboat".
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Michael Shanks appeared in both direct-to-DVD Stargate films released in 2008, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum, and won the 2009 Leo Award for Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama for Continuum.
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In 2004, Michael Shanks made a crossover appearance in the Stargate Atlantis pilot, "Rising".
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Michael Shanks appeared in the tenth and eleventh episodes of Atlantis fifth and final season, and made a cameo appearance in the pilot of the third Stargate series Stargate Universe.
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In 2001, Michael Shanks guest starred in the episode "Star-Crossed" in the Sci-Fi series Andromeda, during which he met his future wife, Lexa Doig.
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Michael Shanks auditioned for the role of Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis.
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In 2007, Michael Shanks joined the Fox Network series 24, guest-starring as lobbyist Mark Bishop in a three-episode arc for season 6.
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In 2008, Michael Shanks had a guest starring role in one episode of the SciFi Channel series Eureka, as an alchemist somewhat responsible for the near destruction of the town due to a student's mixing chemicals in his lab and thereby creating the "Alchemist curse".
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Michael Shanks was featured in a lead role in the SciFi Channel's adventure film, The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon as Jacob Thain opposite Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed alumna Shannen Doherty.
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In 2010, Michael Shanks appeared in an episode of Sanctuary, which stars fellow Stargate actor Amanda Tapping.
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Michael Shanks' had a guest role as archaeologist Carter Hall, DC Comics' superhero Hawkman, in the Smallville episode "Absolute Justice".
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Michael Shanks later reprised the role in the final episode of the ninth season.
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Michael Shanks has starred in the Fox comedy The Good Guys as the pompous leader of the Strike Force.
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In 2011, Michael Shanks was the guest star in the third episode of the Showcase show Endgame, where he plays an amnesiac.
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In 2012, Michael Shanks returned to primetime as Charles "Charlie" Harris on Saving Hope, reuniting with Stargate SG-1 and Smallville co-star Erica Durance.
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In 2019, Michael Shanks played the role of Horace Axley on the second season of the Netflix science-fiction series Altered Carbon.
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Michael Shanks has a daughter from his relationship with model and actress Vaitiare Bandera, who portrayed Sha're, his character's wife on Stargate SG-1.
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Michael Shanks enjoys playing ice hockey, and once considered playing professionally.
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Michael Shanks was on the Stargate SG-1 hockey team, competing against the teams of other Vancouver-based productions such as Smallville, and displayed his aptitude for the sport in the 2006 television film Under the Mistletoe, in which he played the part of a school hockey coach.