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Michael Shanks is a Canadian actor, film actor, television actor, and screenwriter. Born Michael Garrett Shanks on December 15, 1970, in Vancouver, he began his professional work period in 1993. He is married to Lexa Doig and speaks English. Shanks was educated at the University of British Columbia.
In addition to his acting career, Shanks is an author with works spanning archaeology, political science, computer science, art, and history. His publications include *The Stagnant Society*, *Creative Pragmatics Through Active Learning in STEM Education*, *Poetic Mind Project*, *Reconstructing Archaeology*, and *Britain and the new Europe*.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- The Stagnant Society
- Creative Pragmatics Through Active Learning in STEM Education
- Poetic Mind Project
- Reconstructing Archaeology
- Britain and the new Europe;
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Film & TV
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Shanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
- Time Cut — Gil2024
- Heritage Minutes: D-Day — Major Archie MacNaughton2019
- The College Admissions Scandal — Rick Singer2019
- Unspeakable — Will Sanders2019
- Virgin River — Wes2019
- Yellow — Blind Date Guy2018
- Altered Carbon — Horace Axley2018
- Christmas Homecoming — Master Sgt. Jim Mullins2017
- The Good Doctor — Paul2017
- Hearts of Spring — Andy Summers2016
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Key facts
- Born
- Michael Garrett Shanks , ( 1970-12-15 ) December 15, 1970 (age 55) , Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1993–present
- Spouse
- Lexa Doig ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2003 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Vancouver
- Spouse
- Lexa Doig
- Occupation
- film director
- Educated at
- University of British Columbia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Official website
- www.michaelshanks-online.com
- Image
- Michael Shanks at Gamefest 2023 Strasbourg.jpg
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- Commons category
- Michael Shanks
- date of birth
- 1970-12-15
- birth name
- Michael Garrett Shanks
- start of work period
- 1993-00-00
- social media followers
- 108740
- name in native language
- Michael Shanks
- web feed URL
- michaelshanksonline.com/home?format=rss
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He 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. He is also known for his work on low budget genre work filmed in Canada.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michael Shanks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.