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The Cast and Charactor's On Stargate SG1
Seasons 1-8
Founding commanding officer of SG-1. Upon joining the Air Force at 18, O'Neill proved himself to be an exceptional
and gifted airman and was later assigned to a Special Forces unit. He resigned from the military when his son, Charlie, died
by accidentally shooting himself with O'Neill's service weapon. O'Neill was devastated by the loss, which eventually drove
his wife to divorce him. He was later recalled to duty by his former commanding officer and sent through the Earth's first
discovered stargate, in a mission that gave him a new desire to live. After several years of leading SG-1 through missions
across the galaxy, helping to save Earth innumerable times, he was promoted to brigadier general and chief of Stargate Command.
Most recently, he was appointed by President Hayes to serve as the head of the newly created federal department of Homeworld
Security and promoted to the rank of major general.
Richard Dean Anderson is known internationally for his
title role in the television series MacGyver, which ran for seven seasons on ABC and now airs in syndication worldwide. Anderson
and his producing partner, Michael Greenburg, operating under their production company banner, Gekko Film Corp., served as
executive producers on the two MacGyver telefilms that followed, Trail to Doomsday and Lost Treasure of Atlantis.
Born
and raised in Minneapolis, Anderson initially set his career goal toward becoming a professional hockey player. However, after
breaking both arms in separate collisions on the ice while in his teens, he decided to seek other options. As the son of a
jazz-musician father and contemporary-artist mother, his interests turned to the humanities.
After completing a grueling,
cross-country bicycle trip to Alaska, Anderson began studying drama at St. Cloud State College and Ohio University. Relocating
to Los Angeles, he paid his dues working as a street mime, a writer-director-performer at Marineland and a jester-singer-mime-juggler
at a Renaissance-style cabaret.
In 1976, Anderson was cast as Dr. Jeff Webber on ABC's daytime drama General Hospital.
Following five years in this role, he subsequently starred in the series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and Emerald Point,
N.A.S. Just prior to Stargate SG-1, Anderson starred in and served as executive producer of his favorite project to date,
the lighthearted, SF period-adventure series Legend.
Anderson made his television-movie debut in Ordinary Heroes 1986.
His other telefilm credits include Firehouse, Past the Bleachers, In the Eyes of a Stranger, Beyond Betrayal and Through the
Eyes of a Killer. He also starred in the NBC miniseries Pandora's Clock.
Anderson is the co-founder of the Celebrity
All-Star Hockey Team, which raises funds for charities in conjunction with the NHL. He also is an active fund-raiser and board
member for the Challengers Club, a children's recreational center in South Central Los Angeles. His most recent association
is with the Water Keeper Alliance, an environmental agency dedicated to the protection and preservation of the world's waterways.
In
conjunction with Earth River Expeditions, Anderson also currently is a member of a documentary-film project aimed at chronicling
the great rivers of the world. He recently has been elected to the board of directors for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society,
and will be working closely with its founder, Paul Watson.
Anderson, his wife, Apryl, and their daughter, Wylie Quinn
Annarose, share homes in California and British Columbia.
Seasons 1-10
A specialist in stargate technology who holds a doctorate in astrophysics, Carter brings
both extensive scientific knowledge and military training to the SG-1 team. When one of the earliest stargate-research projects
was ended before completion and she was transferred to another base, she continued her research in private before eventually
being recruited for SG-1. During her SG-1 tenure, Carter has been promoted from captain to major and most recently to lieutenant
colonel.
Amanda Tapping was born in Rochford, England, and raised in Toronto with her three brothers. She
has guest-starred on such television series as The X-Files (the episode "Avatar"), Due South, Forever Knight, Kung-Fu: The
Legend Continues, Millennium, Goosebumps and The Outer Limits (the episode "The Joining"). In addition, she was a cast-member
of the Disney series Flash Forward. Her other television credits include Lessons in Love, Remembrance, The Haunting of Lisa
and Degree of Guilt.
Her feature-film credits include Booty Call, Rent-a-Kid, The Giver and Blacktop. She recently
starred in The Void with Malcolm McDowell and Adrian Paul, and had a cameo in Life or Something Like It, with Angelina Jolie
and Edward Burns. Tapping also starred in the independent short Stuck and appeared in the USA Network miniseries Traffic.
She directed the Stargate SG-1 episode "Resurrection."
A graduate of the University of Windsor School of Dramatic Art,
Tapping has performed in such theatrical productions as Steel Magnolias, Look Back in Anger, Children of a Lesser God, Noises
Off, The Lion in Winter, Picnic, The Shadow Walkers and The Taming of the Shrew. She also is the co-founder of the Canadian
comedy troupe Random Acts and currently is completing her first documentary film. She recently returned from her first USO
tour.
Tapping, who is also a spokesperson for UNICEF, spends what little spare time she has with her husband,
Allan, their daughter, Olivia, and their dog, Abbie.
Seasons 1-5/7-10
A veteran of the first exploratory team from the movie Stargate, Dr. Daniel Jackson is an anthropologist, linguist and expert in ancient and current cultures; he speaks more than 20
languages, including ancient Egyptian. He had originally been contracted by the military to decipher a mysterious hieroglyphic
cartouche. His subsequent translation of it allowed Earth's first discovered stargate to be opened. As a member of SG-1, Jackson's
humanistic approach was often in conflict with Col. Jack O'Neill's militaristic style.
Some saw Dr. Jackson as a soft,
brainy, clumsy scientist who carried a wide-eyed enthusiasm with him through every mission, but he earned the heartfelt trust
and respect of O'Neill and all the others — never more so than after sacrificing his worldly existence to save millions
of lives in Kelowna, a country on the planet designated P9Y-4C3. He didn't die, however, so much as he "Ascended" to a higher
spiritual plane of noncorporeal existence. Even before this, he had been considered like a deity to the people of Abydos,
the planet on which he'd chosen to stay following the first SG mission. Later banished from Ascension, with no memory of the
experience, he returned to human form and rejoined SG-1.
A native of Kamloops, British Columbia, near Vancouver,
Michael Shanks studied commerce before deciding to pursue acting at the University of British Columbia, from which
he graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He went on to perform for two seasons at the renowned Stratford
Shakespeare Festival, essaying such roles as Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice and Menteith in Macbeth as well as roles in
King Lear and The Merry Wives of Windsor. His other theater credits include Amadeus, Love of the Nightingale, Translations
and Wait Until Dark.
Shanks made his TV debut in an episode of Highlander, "The Zone," and went on to guest-star on
such series as The Commish and SCI FI's The Outer Limits (the episodes "Mary 25"
and "Manifest Destiny"). He played a college student who helped commit a shocking
crime with his fraternity brothers in A Family Divided, his telefilm debut, and has appeared in films released internationally,
including Suspicious River and Suddenly Naked. Among his science-fiction credits are the telefilm Escape from Mars and guest
appearances on UPN's The Twilight Zone revival series and the Andromeda episodes "Star-Crossed" and "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath," alongside Christopher Judge. Shanks
directed the Stargate SG-1 episode "Double Jeopardy" and scripted
"Resurrection."
His other work includes the South Africa movie Sumuru, the Emmy Award-winning telefilm Door to Door
and special guest appearances in the seventh-season Stargate SG-1 episodes "The Abyss," "The Changeling" and "Full Circle."
In addition, Shanks provides the voice of the Asgard supreme commander, Thor.
Seasons 1-10
Alien of the species known as Jaffa. The Jaffa each carry an infant symbiote in a belly
pouch. This symbiote is the larval stage of a separate, parasitic species, the Goa'uld, who use lifeforms from around the
galaxy as host bodies. There is a strong symbiotic relationship between the larva and the Jaffa, because the symbiote guarantees
its host long life and immunity to disease. Teal'c, however, has divested himself of his symbiote, and must now depend on
the drug tretonin (a distillate of Goa'uld symbiotes) to live. Teal'c (who succeeded his mentor, Bra'tac, as First Prime of
the notorious Serpent Guards of Goa'uld system lord Apophis) was forced to leave behind his son Rya'c and his now-deceased
wife Drey'auc when he joined SG-1. His goal in life has been to defeat the Goa'uld, and to seek personal redemption
for some of his past deeds.
Although Los Angeles native Douglas Christopher Judge seemed destined to have
a gridiron career after receiving a football scholarship from the University of Oregon and becoming a three-time All-American
and playing in the Hula Bowl, he always knew he wanted to be an actor.
While in Oregon, Judge entered a contest to
host the West Coast FOX KLSR Morning Show. His witty, five-minute monologue helped him beat out thousands of other hopefuls
for the job. That break led him to several guest-starring appearances on such television comedies as Martin, The Fresh Prince
of Bel Air, Lush Life and The Jamie Foxx Show. His other TV credits include the SCI FI Original series First Wave (the
episode "Beneath the Black Sky") and Andromeda (the episodes "The
Knight, Death, and the Devil" and "Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath," alongside Michael Shanks), as well as the series Freedom and MacGyver. He also appeared as a
series regular on Sirens.
Judge's feature-film credits include Bird on a Wire, Cadence and House Party 2. He
co-starred opposite Jennifer Beals in Out of Line and played Cuba Gooding Jr.'s adoptive father in the Disney film Snow Dogs.
In addition, he appeared in the E! Entertainment movie Romantic Comedy 101, directed by Peter DeLuise.
Judge produced
and starred in the short film Hacks. He also fulfilled a longtime ambition by recording a CD, with the first single, "We're
Going to Take Our Clothes Off," reportedly reaching No. 1 in Asia. His distinctive voice can be heard on such animated series
as Action Man, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, and X-Men: Evolution, for which he provides the voice of Magneto. He
also played the role of D-Mob in the 2003 videogame Def Jam Vendetta. Judge provided the story outline for the Stargate SG-1
episode "The Warrior" and scripted "The Changeling," "Birthright" and "Sacrifices."
Judge studied drama at the renowned
Howard Fine Studio in Los Angeles. He likes to relax by spending time with his children, Christopher Jordan, Cameron Justin
and Katrina Katherine.
Seasons 9-10
Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell is a gifted fighter pilot who was seriously injured while saving
SG-1 in Season 7's two-part finale "The Lost City." Fully recuperated, Mitchell arrived at Stargate Command to join the team
he fought so hard to save, only to find that SG-1 wasn't quite like he remembered. Now, after a year as the team's leader,
he finds himself facing a galaxy of perils unlike anything he could possibly have expected.
Ben Browder
is best known to sci-fi fans for his starring role as John Chrichton on Farscape, as Commander John Crichton, a 20th-century
American astronaut who was accidentally shot through a wormhole to the other side of the universe. He also is familiar to
television audiences for his role as "Sam," Neve Campbell's boyfriend in the FOX series Party of Five. In addition, he has
appeared in several TV movies, including Paper Mansions: The Dottie West Story starring Michelle Lee, Danielle Steel's Secrets
starring Christopher Plummer and Josie Bissett, Innocent Victims with Rick Schroeder, and A Wing and a Prayer with Patty Duke.
His serial TV credits include guest-starring roles in Melrose Place, Grace Under Fire, Murder She Wrote and Boys of Twilight
with Wilford Brimley.
Browder made his feature-film debut in Memphis Belle. He also appeared in Nevada with Gabrielle
Anwar and Kirstie Alley, A Kiss Before Dying with Matt Dillon, and the independent feature Boogie Boy, directed by Craig Hamann.
Browder appeared in the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Dustin Hoffman, as well as other regional
theatre productions.
Born in Memphis and raised in Charlotte, N.C., where his family owns and operates a NASCAR Busch
series racecar, Browder is a graduate of Furman University in Greenville, S.C. He received his acting training at Central
School of Speech and Drama in London.
Gen. Hank Landry has been brought out of retirement
to replace his longtime friend, Gen. Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill, as the new head of Stargate Command.
Bridges
is part of a preeminent Hollywood acting dynasty. In 1990, he was named Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film
Critics for his performance in The Fabulous Baker Boys, in which he starred opposite his brother Jeff. In 1992, he
received an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a CableACE Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in Without Warning: The James Brady Story.
He garnered another Emmy and Golden Globe in 1993 as Outstanding Supporting Actor for The Positively True Adventures of
the Alleged Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. A third Emmy was won in 1997 for Outstanding Supporting Actor in The Second
Civil War. In total, he has been nominated for 10 Emmys and for four Golden Globes.
Bridges has portrayed a myriad
of characters during his successful career, which spans more than four decades. He started at a young age, making his feature-film
debut in director Lewis Milestone's The Red Pony. He also appeared in his dad's TV show Sea Hunt. In 1967, Bridges
played his first adult role in Larry Peerce's feature film The Incident, and he has worked virtually nonstop ever since.
He co-starred with Sidney Poitier in For Love of Ivy and portrayed a cub reporter in Norman Jewison's Gaily,
Gaily. Bridges starred in Hal Ashby's first film, The Landlord, with Louis Gossett Jr., then teamed up with Elizabeth
Taylor and Richard Burton in Hammersmith Is Out. He played an athletic coach in Sidney Lumet's Child's Play,
the boyfriend of an ill-fated skiing champion in The Other Side of the Mountain, Richard Pryor's buddy in Greased
Lightning, and Sally Field's husband in the powerful Norma Rae. His film work also includes the independent features
Sordid Lives, Meeting Daddy (with father Lloyd), Delbert Mann's Night Crossing, Jonathan Kaplan's Heart
Like a Wheel, Tony Richardson's The Hotel New Hampshire, and Married to It, directed by Arthur Hiller. He
played a co-starring role opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in The Ballad of Jack and Rose, which premiered at the 2005 Sundance
Film Festival.
Bridges has appeared on more than 80 television shows and telefilms, including P.T. Barnum (in
which he and his son Jordan shared the title role), Kissinger and Nixon, The Man With Three Wives and, with
his father and son Dylan, in Sandkings, a two-hour movie that kicked-off the revival of The Outer Limits franchise.
He starred in the CBS series Harts of the West, in ABC's Maximum Bob, and the CBS series The Agency,
playing CIA Director Tom Gage. He has appeared on Broadway in the original production of William Inge's Where's Daddy?
and Peter Ustinov's Who's Who in Hell. His other theater work includes the original productions of Daniel Berrigan's
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine and Jane Anderson's Looking for Normal. In addition to acting, Bridges also
has directed films, including The Wild Pair and Seven Hours to Judgment, in which he also starred. He also directed
his father in a "movie of the week" entitled Secret Sins of the Father, and in the Disney film The Thanksgiving
Promise, also starring his son, Jordan. Bridges' After School Special Don't Touch was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Bridges has five children: Casey, Jordan, Dylan, Emily and Zeke. He lives with his wife, Wendy, and their youngest
son.
Complicating the galactic balance of power after the fall of the Replicators is Gerak, a Jaffa leader
who vies with Teal'c for political control of the newly emerging Jaffa nation.
Louis Gossett Jr. first caught
a break at his Broadway audition for Take a Giant Step (1953) where, beating out 400 other candidates, the then 16-year-old
actor landed the lead. After attending NYU on a basketball scholarship, Gossett was drafted by the New York Knicks but instead
chose to commit to a promising acting career. His choice was rewarded with roles in the stage and film versions of the groundbreaking
drama A Raisin in the Sun, which, in turn, led to numerous appearances on network series in the 1960s and '70s. This
culminated in an Emmy Award in 1977 for his eloquent portrayal of Fiddler in the landmark ABC miniseries Roots.
Several
performances earned him critical acclaim, particularly his starring performances in such feature films as The Landlord,
The Skin Game with James Garner, Travels With My Aunt, the film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning drama The
River Niger and The Deep, opposite Nick Nolte and Jacqueline Bisset. His role as the tough, by-the-book drill sergeant
in An Officer and a Gentleman won him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Among the film and television credits
that followed were his role as Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in Sadat, the sci-fi adventure Enemy Mine, and
the four-film action-adventure series Iron Eagle, which introduced him to a whole new generation of moviegoers. He
portrayed a down-and-out boxer in Diggstown, a heroic headmaster in Toy Soldier, and also starred in such socially
themed projects as To Dance With Olivia and the critically acclaimed Jasper, Texas.
In addition to an
Oscar and an Emmy, Gossett has received multiple Golden Globe Awards and a People's Choice Award. Organizations such as the
NAACP, CARE and the United States Armed Forces have used his likeness to personify their causes and missions.
Currently,
Gossett is creating a nonprofit foundation aimed at developing and promoting entertainment that helps bring awareness and
education on such issues as racism and ignorance, and that helps combat social apathy regarding these issues.
Founding commander of Stargate Command
and all SG units. A hardened military leader and a wise man willing to do whatever is necessary to defend the interests of
his country, his world, and all of humanity, he was promoted to a Pentagon position as chief of defense for Earth, a post
referred to colloquially as "Head of Homeworld Security." (He is later succeeded in that post by his former subordinate, Gen.
Jack O'Neill.)
Don S. Davis is a respected character actor, a nationally exhibited painter, a woodcarver,
a designer, and a former theater professor and a captain in the U.S. Army. He began working in the film industry while teaching
at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in the early 1980s. He left teaching to pursue acting full-time in 1987.
Aside from his seven seasons as a regular on Stargate SG-1, Davis is perhaps best known for his recurring roles
as the father of Gillian Anderson's Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files and as Maj. Garland Briggs on Twin
Peaks.
He has appeared in numerous feature films, including The Fan, Alaska, A League of Their Own, Hook, Cadence,
Needful Things, Mystery Date, Look Who's Talking, Con Air, Best in Show and The 6th Day. He was a recurring player
in the Stephen J. Cannell CBS series Broken Badges and has guest-starred on a multitude of shows, including Northern
Exposure, L.A. Law, Knots Landing, Wiseguy, 21 Jump Street, Nightmare Cafe, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Outer Limits (the episodes
"Living Hell" and "Voice of Reason"), Poltergeist: The Legacy, The Sentinel, MacGyver and UPN's The Twilight Zone. Davis
recently guest-starred on the Stargate Atlantis episode "Home."
Davis has had featured roles in the television
movies Fire on the Mountain, Stepsister, Tricks, Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue, In Cold Blood, Showtime's The Prisoner
of Zenda, A Dream is a Wish the Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, One More Mountain, Columbo: A Bird in Hand, Dead
Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster, Omen IV: The Awakening, Posing, Kurt Vonnegut's Theatre: All the King's Horses and The
Ranger, The Cook and The Hole in the Sky, as well as the miniseries Atomic Train.
Davis currently resides
with his wife just outside of Vancouver and spends his spare time honing his artistic talents and trying to improve his golf
game.
A scientist and dignitary from Kelowna, one of three nations
on the planet Langara (original Earth designation: P9Y-4C3), Quinn was present at the accident that gave Dr. Daniel
Jackson a fatal dose of radiation poisoning. Initially involved in a cover-up, Quinn later made amends by smuggling to Earth
a small amount of the unstable yet powerful element Naquadria (a derivative of Naqaudah) for SGC to study in the hopes
of developing shared defense technology. For his actions, his homeland initially branded Quinn a traitor. Quinn, who has a
metahuman capacity for absorbing knowledge, replaced the "Ascended" Dr. Jackson on the SG-1 team. With changes in the political
winds, however, his homeland and birthright called him back. His former teammates joined him afterward on a mission to save
his planet from nuclear destruction.
Corin Nemec's acting career spans nearly two decades and began
with a guest appearance on Sidekicks and a season on the popular series Webster, playing Nicky Papadapolis.
Born Joseph Charles Nemec IV in Little Rock, Ark., he grew up in Atlanta. Nemec came to prominence when he was cast in the
1988 film Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Coppola and George Lucas.
He then starred in and received an Emmy nomination for his chilling performance in the acclaimed missing-child miniseries
I Know My First Name Is Steven. Corin also received critical acclaim in the Television Critics Association's 1989 award-winner
for best movie, miniseries or TV special, What's Alan Watching?
Nemec gained popularity in the United States
and Europe for his portrayal of high school's coolest prankster in the cult-hit Fox series Parker Lewis Can't Lose.
He also starred in a number of network telefilms, including My Son Johnny, For the Very First Time and Summer
of Fear. Nemec tackled the role of bad guy Harold Lauder in the miniseries Stephen King's The Stand, receiving
excellent notices. He also starred with Jeanne Tripplehorn in the telefilm My Brother's Keeper, directed by John Badham.
Nemec previously had worked with hit-maker Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames, Stakeout) in the action
film Drop Zone, starring Wesley Snipes. Nemec co-starred in the Disney Vietnam comedy Operation Dumbo Drop and
the Vietnam drama The War at Home. Some of his other film credits include Solar Crisis, directed by Richard
Sarafian, and the independent films The First To Go, Killer Bud, Foreign Correspondents and Free. He played
the recurring role of Derrick Driscoll on Beverly Hills, 90210, and recently guest-starred on the WB's Superman series,
Smallville.
Vala is a former Goa'uld host who now is a scheming, unscrupulous, thieving con artist. In addition
to her mysterious agenda, she appears to have a more than passing amorous interest in Dr. Daniel Jackson.
Claudia
Black is best known to American audiences as Aeryn Sun, a renegade Sebacean Peacekeeper on the SCI FI original series
Farscape.
On the big screen, Black has starred as Pandora in the Anne Rice feature
film Queen of the Damned, alongside Aaliyah and Stuart Townsend. She previously starred in USA Films' sci-fi sleeper
hit Pitch Black, opposite Vin Diesel.
Black has appeared in many of Australia's most popular TV series and
movies. She is well known to Australian audiences for her portrayal of the hermaphrodite Jill Mayhew in Good Guys Bad Guys,
and the leading role of Angela Kostapas in City Life. She also appeared in the series G.P., Police Rescue,
A Country Practice, Water Rats and Seven Deadly Sins, in addition to several guest-starring roles on
Hercules and Beastmaster.
A finalist in the 1990 Globe Shakespeare competition, Black's theatre credits
include Portia in the European tour of The Merchant of Venice, Jo in Little Women, The World Knot for
the Bicentennial Opera, and Spotlight on Women, Portrait of Dorian Gray, Loose Ends, and Pick Ups
for the Belvoir Street Theatre.
Military doctor recruited for Stargate Command by Gen. Hammond because of her wide
range of expertise. Dr. Fraiser's skill and compassion enabled her to face the most peculiar cases brought to her by the SG
teams. She was killed in the line of duty while tending to a wounded airman on planet P3X-666.
Vancouver
native Teryl Rothery began her entertainment career as a dancer at age 13 when she performed in her first musical, Bye
Bye Birdie. She made her first television appearance five years later on a CBC Halloween special.
After performing
voiceover work for the English-language version of the popular anime series Ranma ½, she made her telefilm debut with
the Christopher Reeve drama Mortal Sins, her first of more than two dozen made-for-TV movies in 10 years. Her theatrical
feature roles include the family films Andre and Magic in the Water; Masterminds, with Patrick Stewart;
and Best in Show.
Rothery's many television credits are studded with SF series. She notably played the lead
guest star in a classic second-season episode of The X-Files, "Excelsius Dei," and has appeared on Showtime's Jeremiah
(appearing twice as Mary, the hero's mother), M.A.N.T.I.S., So Weird and the SCI FI series First
Wave and The Outer Limits (the episodes "Trial By Fire"
and "Re-Generation"), along with providing voices for the animated
Exosquad, Dragon Ball Z and Robocop: Alpha Commando. Her other TV credits include episodes of The Commish,
Viper, Glory Days, The Chris Isaak Show and the Canadian hit series Da Vinci's Inquest.
In addition to
her recurring role as Dr. Fraiser, Rothery also provides the voice of the Asgard leader Heimdall.
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