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Michael Shanks

Biographical information
Birth name	Michael Garrett Shanks
Birth date	(1970-12-15) December 15, 1970 (age 53) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality	Canadian
Information about family
Children	Tatiana (daughter with Vaitiare Bandera) Mia Tabitha Samuel David (with Lexa Doig)
Professional information
Occupations	Actor, Writer, Director
Stargate-related information
Related series	Stargate SG-1 Stargate Atlantis Stargate: The Ark of Truth Stargate: Continuum Stargate Universe
Occupations	Actor, Writer, Director
Characters	Daniel Jackson, Thor (voice), Ma'chello
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Michael Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor who achieved international fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1.

Biography

Involvement in the Stargate universe

Actor
- Dr Daniel Jackson (Stargate SG-1, Stargate: The Ark of Truth, Stargate: Continuum, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe; see Daniel Jackson#Episodes featuring Daniel Jackson)
Writer (SG1: "Evolution", Part 1, "Resurrection")
Director (SG1: "Double Jeopardy")

Filmography

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Film and Television
Year	Title	Function	Role	Notes

Notes

Episodes featuring Michael Shanks

Movie and "Direct-to-DVD" movies

Stargate

Stargate: The Ark of Truth (Main)

Stargate: Continuum (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 1

01/02. "Children of the Gods" (Main)
03. "The Enemy Within" (Main)
04. "Emancipation" (Main)
05. "The Broca Divide" (Main)
06. "The First Commandment" (Main)

07. "Cold Lazarus" (Main)
08. "The Nox" (Main)
09. "Brief Candle" (Main)
10. "Thor's Hammer" (Main)
11. "The Torment of Tantalus" (Main)

12. "Bloodlines" (Main)
13. "Fire and Water" (Main)
14. "Hathor" (Main)
15. "Singularity" (Main)
16. "Cor-Ai" (Main)

17. "Enigma" (Main)
18. "Solitudes" (Main)
19. "Tin Man" (Main)
20. "There But For the Grace of God" (Main)
21. "Politics" (Main)
22. "Within the Serpent's Grasp" (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 2

01. "The Serpent's Lair" (Main)
02. "In the Line of Duty" (Main)
03. "Prisoners" (Main)
04. "The Gamekeeper" (Main)
05. "Need" (Main)
06. "Thor's Chariot" (Main)

07. "Message in a Bottle" (Main)
08. "Family" (Main)
09. "Secrets" (Main)
10. "Bane" (Main)
11. "The Tok'ra", Part 1 (Main)

12. "The Tok'ra", Part 2 (Main)
13. "Spirits" (Main)
14. "Touchstone" (Main)
15. "The Fifth Race" (Main)
16. "A Matter of Time" (Main)

17. "Holiday" (Main)
18. "Serpent's Song" (Main)
19. "One False Step" (Main)
20. "Show and Tell" (Main)
21. "1969" (Main)
22. "Out of Mind" (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 3

01. "Into the Fire" (Main)
02. "Seth" (Main)
03. "Fair Game" (Main)
04. "Legacy" (Main)
05. "Learning Curve" (Main)
06. "Point of View" (Main)

07. "Deadman Switch" (Main)
08. "Demons" (Main)
09. "Rules of Engagement" (Main)
10. "Forever in a Day" (Main)
11. "Past and Present" (Main)

12. "Jolinar's Memories" (Main)
13. "The Devil You Know" (Main)
14. "Foothold" (Main)
15. "Pretense" (Main)
16. "Urgo" (Main)

17. "A Hundred Days" (Main)
18. "Shades of Grey" (Main)
19. "New Ground" (Main)
20. "Maternal Instinct" (Main)
21. "Crystal Skull" (Main)
22. "Nemesis" (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 4

01. "Small Victories" (Main)
02. "The Other Side" (Main)
03. "Upgrades" (Main)
04. "Crossroads" (Main)
05. "Divide and Conquer" (Main)
06. "Window of Opportunity" (Main)

07. "Watergate" (Main)
08. "The First Ones" (Main)
09. "Scorched Earth" (Main)
10. "Beneath the Surface" (Main)
11. "Point of No Return" (Main)

12. "Tangent" (Main)
13. "The Curse" (Main)
14. "The Serpent's Venom" (Main)
15. "Chain Reaction" (Main)
16. "2010" (Main)

17. "Absolute Power" (Main)
18. "The Light" (Main)
19. "Prodigy"
20. "Entity" (Main)
21. "Double Jeopardy" (Main)
22. "Exodus" (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 5

01. "Enemies" (Main)
02. "Threshold" (Main)
03. "Ascension" (Main)
04. "The Fifth Man" (Main)
05. "Red Sky" (Main)
06. "Rite of Passage" (Main)

07. "Beast of Burden" (Main)
08. "The Tomb" (Main)
09. "Between Two Fires" (Main)
10. "2001" (Main)
11. "Desperate Measures" (Main)

12. "Wormhole X-Treme!" (Main)
13. "Proving Ground" (Main)
14. "48 Hours" (Main)
15. "Summit" (Main)
16. "Last Stand" (Main)

17. "Fail Safe" (Main)
18. "The Warrior" (Main)
19. "Menace" (Main)
20. "The Sentinel" (Main)
21. "Meridian" (Main)
22. "Revelations"

Stargate SG-1 Season 6

01. "Redemption", Part 1
02. "Redemption", Part 2
03. "Descent"
04. "Frozen"
05. "Nightwalkers"
06. "Abyss" (Ending Credits)

07. "Shadow Play"
08. "The Other Guys"
09. "Allegiance"
10. "Cure"
11. "Prometheus"

12. "Unnatural Selection"
13. "Sight Unseen"
14. "Smoke & Mirrors"
15. "Paradise Lost"
16. "Metamorphosis"

17. "Disclosure"
18. "Forsaken"
19. "The Changeling" (Ending Credits)
20. "Memento"
21. "Prophecy"
22. "Full Circle" (Ending Credits)

Stargate SG-1 Season 7

01. "Fallen" (Main)
02. "Homecoming" (Main)
03. "Fragile Balance" (Main)
04. "Orpheus" (Main)
05. "Revisions" (Main)
06. "Lifeboat" (Main)

07. "Enemy Mine" (Main)
08. "Space Race" (Main)
09. "Avenger 2.0" (Main)
10. "Birthright" (Main)
11. "Evolution", Part 1 (Main)

12. "Evolution", Part 2 (Main)
13. "Grace" (Main)
14. "Fallout" (Main)
15. "Chimera" (Main)
16. "Death Knell" (Main)

17. "Heroes", Part 1 (Main)
18. "Heroes", Part 2 (Main)
19. "Resurrection" (Main)
20. "Inauguration" (Main)
21. "Lost City", Part 1 (Main)
22. "Lost City", Part 2 (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 8

01. "New Order", Part 1 (Main)
02. "New Order", Part 2 (Main)
03. "Lockdown" (Main)
04. "Zero Hour" (Main)
05. "Icon" (Main)

06. "Avatar" (Main)
07. "Affinity" (Main)
08. "Covenant" (Main)
09. "Sacrifices" (Main)
10. "Endgame" (Main)

11. "Gemini" (Main)
12. "Prometheus Unbound" (Main)
13. "It's Good To Be King" (Main)
14. "Full Alert" (Main)
15. "Citizen Joe" (Main)

16. "Reckoning", Part 1 (Main)
17. "Reckoning", Part 2 (Main)
18. "Threads" (Main)
19. "Moebius", Part 1 (Main)
20. "Moebius", Part 2 (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 9

01. "Avalon", Part 1 (Main)
02. "Avalon", Part 2 (Main)
03. "Origin" (Main)
04. "The Ties That Bind" (Main)
05. "The Powers That Be" (Main)

06. "Beachhead" (Main)
07. "Ex Deus Machina" (Main)
08. "Babylon" (Main)
09. "Prototype" (Main)
10. "The Fourth Horseman", Part 1 (Main)

11. "The Fourth Horseman", Part 2 (Main)
12. "Collateral Damage" (Main)
13. "Ripple Effect" (Main)
14. "Stronghold" (Main)
15. "Ethon" (Main)

16. "Off the Grid" (Main)
17. "The Scourge" (Main)
18. "Arthur's Mantle" (Main)
19. "Crusade" (Main)
20. "Camelot" (Main)

Stargate SG-1 Season 10

01. "Flesh and Blood" (Main)
02. "Morpheus" (Main)
03. "The Pegasus Project" (Main)
04. "Insiders"
05. "Uninvited"

06. "200" (Main)
07. "Counterstrike" (Main)
08. "Memento Mori" (Main)
09. "Company of Thieves" (Main)
10. "The Quest", Part 1 (Main)

11. "The Quest", Part 2 (Main)
12. "Line in the Sand"
13. "The Road Not Taken"
14. "The Shroud" (Main)
15. "Bounty" (Main)

16. "Bad Guys" (Main)
17. "Talion" (Main)
18. "Family Ties" (Main)
19. "Dominion" (Main)
20. "Unending" (Main)

Stargate Atlantis Season 1

01. "Rising", Part 1 (Guest Star)
02. "Rising", Part 2
03. "Hide and Seek"
04. "Thirty Eight Minutes"
05. "Suspicion"

06. "Childhood's End"
07. "Poisoning the Well"
08. "Underground"
09. "Home"
10. "The Storm"

11. "The Eye"
12. "The Defiant One"
13. "Hot Zone"
14. "Sanctuary"
15. "Before I Sleep"

16. "The Brotherhood"
17. "Letters From Pegasus"
18. "The Gift"
19. "The Siege", Part 1
20. "The Siege", Part 1

Stargate Atlantis Season 5

01. "Search and Rescue"
02. "The Seed"
03. "Broken Ties"
04. "The Daedalus Variations"
05. "Ghost in the Machine"

06. "The Shrine"
07. "Whispers"
08. "The Queen"
09. "Tracker"
10. "First Contact" (Ending Credits)

11. "The Lost Tribe" (Ending Credits)
12. "Outsiders"
13. "Inquisition"
14. "The Prodigal"
15. "Remnants"

16. "Brain Storm"
17. "Infection"
18. "Identity"
19. "Vegas"
20. "Enemy at the Gate"

Stargate Universe Season 1

01. "Air", Part 1 (Guest Star)
02. "Air", Part 2
03. "Air", Part 3
04. "Darkness"
05. "Light"

06. "Water"
07. "Earth"
08. "Time"
09. "Life"
10. "Justice"

11. "Space"
12. "Divided"
13. "Faith"
14. "Human" (Guest Star)
15. "Lost"

16. "Sabotage"
17. "Pain"
18. "Subversion" (Guest Star)
19. "Incursion", Part 1
20. "Incursion", Part 2

Episodes featuring Michael Shanks as Writer

Stargate SG-1 Season 7

01. "Fallen"
02. "Homecoming"
03. "Fragile Balance"
04. "Orpheus"
05. "Revisions"
06. "Lifeboat"

07. "Enemy Mine"
08. "Space Race"
09. "Avenger 2.0"
10. "Birthright"
11. "Evolution", Part 1

12. "Evolution", Part 2
13. "Grace"
14. "Fallout"
15. "Chimera"
16. "Death Knell"

17. "Heroes", Part 1
18. "Heroes", Part 2
19. "Resurrection"
20. "Inauguration"
21. "Lost City", Part 1
22. "Lost City", Part 2

Episodes featuring Michael Shanks as Story writer

Stargate SG-1 Season 7

01. "Fallen"
02. "Homecoming"
03. "Fragile Balance"
04. "Orpheus"
05. "Revisions"
06. "Lifeboat"

07. "Enemy Mine"
08. "Space Race"
09. "Avenger 2.0"
10. "Birthright"
11. "Evolution", Part 1

12. "Evolution", Part 2
13. "Grace"
14. "Fallout"
15. "Chimera"
16. "Death Knell"

17. "Heroes", Part 1
18. "Heroes", Part 2
19. "Resurrection"
20. "Inauguration"
21. "Lost City", Part 1
22. "Lost City", Part 2

Episodes featuring Michael Shanks as Director

Stargate SG-1 Season 4

01. "Small Victories"
02. "The Other Side"
03. "Upgrades"
04. "Crossroads"
05. "Divide and Conquer"
06. "Window of Opportunity"

07. "Watergate"
08. "The First Ones"
09. "Scorched Earth"
10. "Beneath the Surface"
11. "Point of No Return"

12. "Tangent"
13. "The Curse"
14. "The Serpent's Venom"
15. "Chain Reaction"
16. "2010"

17. "Absolute Power"
18. "The Light"
19. "Prodigy"
20. "Entity"
21. "Double Jeopardy"
22. "Exodus"

External links

Michael Shanks at the Internet Movie Database

References

Crew and Cast

Stargate SG-1 crew

Directors

Mario Azzopardi • Dennis Berry • Robert C. Cooper • Charles Correll • Allan Eastman • William Gereghty • Ken Girotti • Jonathan Glassner • Jimmy Kaufman • Allan Lee • Andy Mikita • Michael Shanks • Amanda Tapping • Brad Turner • William Waring • David Warry-Smith • Peter F. Woeste • Martin Wood • Jeff Woolnough

Writers

Tom J. Astle (Writer) • Steven Barnes (Story writer) • Carl Binder • Ben Browder • David Bennett Carren (Story writer) • J. Larry Carroll (Story writer) • Robert C. Cooper (Writer) • James Crocker (Story writer) • Martin Gero (Writer) • Jonathan Glassner (Writer) • Michael Greenburg (Story writer) • Hart Hanson (Writer) • Christopher Judge (Writer) • David Kemper (Story writer) • Jeff King (Writer) • Joseph Mallozzi (Writer) • Paul Mullie (Writer) • Katharyn Powers (Writer) • Misha Rashovich (Story writer) • Mark Saraceni (Story writer) • Michael Shanks (Writer) • Brad Wright

Stargate SG-1
Season 10 cast

Main cast	Claudia Black • Beau Bridges • Ben Browder • Christopher Judge • Michael Shanks • Amanda Tapping
Guest Stars	Tony Amendola • Martin Christopher • Don S. Davis • Mike Dopud • Joe Flanigan • David Hewlett • Torri Higginson • Robin Mossley • Robert Picardo • Ben Ratner • Cliff Simon

Stargate Atlantis
Season 5 cast

Main cast	Joe Flanigan • David Hewlett • Rachel Luttrell • Jason Momoa • Robert Picardo • Jewel Staite
Guest Stars	Martin Christopher • Colin Cunningham • Mark Dacascos • Mike Dopud • Christopher Heyerdahl • Paul McGillion

Stargate Universe
Season 1 cast

Main cast

David Blue • Robert Carlyle • Louis Ferreira • Alaina Huffman • Elyse Levesque • Ming-Na • Brian J. Smith • Jamil Walker Smith

Guest Stars

Richard Dean Anderson • Julia Benson • Sean Blakemore • Mark Burgess • Martin Christopher • Mike Dopud • Alisen Down • Cameron Shang Forbes • Vincent Gale • Anna Galvin • Patrick Gilmore • Ona Grauer • Gary Jones • Peter Kelamis • Louise Lombard • William MacDonald • Suleka Mathew • Christopher McDonald • Ming-Na • Rhona Mitra • Lou Diamond Phillips • Tygh Runyan • Michael Shanks • Jennifer Spence • Amanda Tapping

Stargate: The Ark of Truth cast

Main cast	Claudia Black • Beau Bridges • Ben Browder • Christopher Judge • Michael Shanks • Amanda Tapping

Stargate: Continuum cast

Main cast	Claudia Black • Beau Bridges • Ben Browder • Christopher Judge • Michael Shanks • Amanda Tapping
Supporting cast	Richard Dean Anderson • Don S. Davis • Cliff Simon • Peter Williams