Michael Shanks

Q: Has Michael Shanks won any awards?

Michael Shanks has received several award nominations throughout his career, including a Leo Award for his performance in Stargate SG-1, but he has not won an Oscar.

Q: What was Michael Shanks' first film?

Michael Shanks' first film role was in the 1993 movie The Last House on the Left, where he played a small part that marked the beginning of his acting journey.

Q: What are some of Michael Shanks' successful films?

Some of Michael Shanks' successful films include the Stargate SG-1 movies and his recent role in Web of Death, showcasing his range as an actor.

Q: Is Michael Shanks married?

Yes, Michael Shanks is married to Lexa Doig, and they have been together since 2003, sharing two children.

Q: What is Michael Shanks' estimated net worth?

Michael Shanks' estimated net worth is around 2 million USD, reflecting his successful career in acting and television.

Q: What are some milestones in Michael Shanks' filmography?

Milestones in Michael Shanks' filmography include his iconic role in Stargate SG-1 and his performances in various TV series and films over the years, establishing him as a prominent actor.

Q: What unique skills does Michael Shanks have?

In addition to acting, Michael Shanks is a skilled writer and has contributed to the storytelling of Stargate SG-1, showcasing his creative talents beyond acting.

Known for

Elysium (2013)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2013 / Action, Drama / 109 min

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the...

Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)

IMDb 8.4 / 10

1997–2007 / Action, Adventure / 44 min

The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an...

Name

Michael Shanks

Height

5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Born

15 December 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Spouses

Lexa Doig (2003–present)

Children

2 children, including Mia Shanks and Samuel Shanks

Parents

Mary Shanks, John Shanks

Estimated Net Worth

2 million USD

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2024	Movie Time Cut A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the...	Gil	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2019	TV Virgin River After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where...	Wes	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2019	Movie The College Admissions Scandal Two wealthy mothers, Caroline, a sought after interior designer and Bethany, an owner of a successful financial services firm, who...	Rick Singer	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2019	Movie Heritage Minutes: D-Day On June 6, 1944, Canadian Forces landed on Juno Beach. D-Day, as this day would become known, was the largest...	Major Archie MacNaughton	Not rated
2019	TV Unspeakable In the early 1980s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. People were kept...	Will Sanders	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2018	Movie Yellow 10 characters each experience a crossroads in their lives on a seemingly ordinary afternoon in an art gallery.	Blind Date Guy	Not rated
2018	TV Altered Carbon After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his...	Horace Axley	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2017	Movie Christmas Homecoming A military widow, whose faith in Christmas has lapsed, rents an apartment to a handsome Army Captain, recovering from an...	Master Sgt. Jim Mullins	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	TV The Good Doctor Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome, relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious...	Paul	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2016	Movie Hearts of Spring A famous mommy blogger faces an empty nest as her daughter prepares to go away to college. When she turns...	Andy Summers	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2013	Movie Elysium In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station...	CCB Agent	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2013	Movie Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story The story of the 1973 hockey season when aging legend Gordie Howe returned to the ice at the age of...	Gordie Howe	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2013	Movie 13 Eerie Forensics students arriving on an isolated island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of...	Tomkins	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2013	Movie The Bouquet Two estranged sisters torn apart by their differences suddenly find themselves working together towards a common goal in this heartwarming...	Sam	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2012	TV Saving Hope When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and...	Dr. Charlie Harris	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Tactical Force A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs...	Demetrius	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2011	Movie The Pastor's Wife Based on the true story of Matthew Winkler, a beloved minister who, in 2006, was found shot and killed in...	Matthew Winkler	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2011	Movie Faces in the Crowd Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which...	Bryce	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2011	Movie Christmas Lodge Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she...	Jack	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2011	Movie Red Riding Hood Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man....	Adrien Lazar	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2010	Movie Arctic Blast When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a...	Jack Tate	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2010	TV The Good Guys Once upon the 1970s, Dan Stark and his partner, Frank Savage, were big-shot Dallas detectives. So big, in fact, that...	Capt. Shaw	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2009	Movie Desperate Escape After having suffered serious head trauma, Brooke tries to regain her normal life despite having lost all memory. Her wealthy...	Michael Coleman	TMDB 3.4 / 10
2009	TV Stargate Universe The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant...	Daniel Jackson	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2009	TV Stargate 101 "Stargate 101" is a series of educational documentaries hosted and narrated by Doctor Daniel Jackson, developed for the use of...	Daniel Jackson	Not rated
2009	Movie Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice The exhilarating, feature-length pilot episode, "Rising", sends a brilliant team of scientists through a Stargate to the legendary city of...	Daniel Jackson	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2009	Movie Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the...	Dr. Daniel Jackson	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2009	Movie Living Out Loud A wife and mother, diagnosed with breast cancer, decides to truly live her life, which has become comfortable and predictable,...	Brad Marshall	TMDB 2.5 / 10
2009	Movie Stargate - En route vers les étoiles	Jackson - Lui-même	Not rated
2008	Movie The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon A team of Smithsonian researchers have stumbled across a lost walled Aztec city guarded by some evil spirits, including a...	Jacob Thain	TMDB 3.9 / 10
2008	TV Sanctuary The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of...	Jimmy	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2008	Movie Stargate: Continuum Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.	Dr. Daniel Jackson	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2008	Movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the...	Dr. Daniel Jackson	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2007	Movie Mega Snake Duff Daniels (John T. Woods), the younger, stupider brother of Les (Michael Shanks), can't help himself from stealing a rare...	Les Daniels	TMDB 2.7 / 10
2007	TV Burn Notice A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.	Victor	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	Movie Judicial Indiscretion A federal judge’s life is disrupted by sexual assault, blackmail and murder after she’s put on the shortlist to fill...	Jack Sullivan	TMDB 3.5 / 10
2006	Movie Under the Mistletoe At Christmas, the tables turn on on a selfless single mom when a local radio station takes over her love...	Kevin Harrison	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2006	TV Eureka The sleepy Pacific Northwest town of Eureka is hiding a mysterious secret. The government has been relocating the world's geniuses...	Christopher Daktylos	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2005	Movie Swarmed Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.	Kent Horvath	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2005	TV Supernatural When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their...	Rob	TMDB 8.3 / 10
2004	TV Stargate Atlantis With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard...	Dr. Daniel Jackson	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2003	Movie Sumuru Based on Sax Rohmer's cult novels "Sumuru", the futuristic fantasy take you to an Earth colony in the far future...	Adam Wade	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2002	TV CSI: Miami The show follows Crime Scene Investigators working for the Miami-Dade Police Department as they use physical evidence, similar to their...	Doug Stets	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2002	TV The Twilight Zone A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as...	Donnie	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2002	Movie Door to Door Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply...	John	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2002	Movie All Around The Town A young woman, seemingly good but still psychologically disturbed from being kidnapped as a little girl, becomes the obvious suspect...	Justin Donnelly	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2001	TV 24 Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode...	Mark Bishop	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2001	TV Smallville The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark...	Carter Hall / Hawkman	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2001	Movie Suddenly Naked A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.	Danny Blair / Donny Blitzer	TMDB 4.6 / 10
2001	Movie Suspicious River A young married woman sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as...	Ball Cap Man	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	TV The Chris Isaak Show Follows a fictionalized version of the life of American rock musician Chris Isaak. The show portrays Isaak and his band...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2000	TV Andromeda Captain Dylan Hunt and his crew quest to restore a government that once presided over an extended peace and prosperity.	Gabriel / Balance of Judgment	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie The Artist's Circle Michael Shanks plays the very silent and controversial artist who is tired of having his works criticized by people who...	Artist	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Escape from Mars Five astronauts make the first manned trip to Mars in the second decade of the 21st century. They must battle...	Bill Malone, Mission Architect	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1997	TV Stargate SG-1 The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States...	Daniel Jackson	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1997	TV Stargate SG-1 The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States...	Thor (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1995	TV The Outer Limits Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story...	Melburn Ross	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1995	TV The Outer Limits Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story...	Dr. Will Olsten	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1995	Movie A Family Divided College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he...	Todd	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1995	TV University Hospital	Unknown character	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	TV Madison	Unknown character	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1992	TV Highlander: The Series Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he...	Jesse Collins	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1991	TV The Commish Tony Scali is a former Brooklyn cop now the Police Commissioner of a small upstate city. But for Scali, this...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.1 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2012	TV Saving Hope When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and...	Director Directing	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2007	Movie Behind the Mythology of Stargate SG-1 With interviews from cast, producers, and experts in the field of mythology and television, Behind the Mythology of Stargate SG-1...	Presenter Crew	Not rated
1997	TV Stargate SG-1 The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States...	Director Directing	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1997	TV Stargate SG-1 The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States...	Writer Writing	TMDB 8.3 / 10

Time Cut

2024 / TMDB 5.6

The College Admissions Scandal

2019 / TMDB 4.6

Heritage Minutes: D-Day

2019

Yellow

2018

Christmas Homecoming

2017 / TMDB 6.7

Hearts of Spring

2016 / TMDB 5.8

Got a question about Michael Shanks?

What are Michael Shanks' most notable roles?

Michael Shanks is most notable for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1 and has appeared in various TV series and films, including Saving Hope and Web of Death.

Has Michael Shanks won any awards?

What was Michael Shanks' first film?

What are some of Michael Shanks' successful films?

Is Michael Shanks married?

What is Michael Shanks' estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in Michael Shanks' filmography?

What unique skills does Michael Shanks have?