Lexa Doig

At 51 years old, Lexa Doig has this physical status:

Alexandra Lecciones Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress.

In the Canadian-American science fiction-adventure television series Andromeda, she portrayed the title role.

Rowan appeared in the science fiction-action horror film Jason X (2001), the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th film series, and she currently appears in the Aurora Teagarden mystery films on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel.

Early life

Doig was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is Gloria B. Lecciones' younger daughter and David W. Doig's younger sister. Her mother is a registered nurse who came from Dumaguete, Philippines, and her father, a Canadian engineer of Scottish and Irish ancestry who served in Toronto, is a petroleum executive officer.

Doig studied rhythmic gymnastics as an infant and American Sign Language as a teenager. She developed a keen interest in acting and was inspired to become an actor at the age of nine after attending a Porgy and Bess theatre performance.

Personal life

After being on set of Andromeda, where the former actor starred and the latter guest-starred in the 2001 film "Star Crossed," Doig dated actor Michael Shanks. They married on August 2, 2003, and they appeared together in the 2003 episode "Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath" of the same TV series. In the last two seasons of Stargate SG-1, the two co-stars were castmates. They appeared in the action thriller Tactical Force (2011), in which Doig played an LAPD SWAT officer and Shanks played the role of a Russian mob leader. (2019) They appeared together on Netflix Original Series Virgin River (2019). In comparison to Shanks' child from a previous marriage, they have two children, a son and a daughter.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, Doig and Shanks are active fundraising partners for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.

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Career

While completing compulsory secondary education at Don Mills Collegiate Institute, she enrolled in a vocational modelling program. There, at age 16, she was immediately offered representation by a talent agent and booked in various modelling projects. She chose to drop out from her final year in high school to pursue an acting career.

The initial media exposure led to her co-hosting the Canadian game show Video & Arcade Top 10 (1991–2006). While auditioning for television and film roles, she worked on theatre productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace.

Her first television acting role was as "Second Girl" on The Hidden Room in 1993. Her first recurring role was in the TV series TekWar in 1994 where she portrayed the role of Cowgirl. Her first movie role was in Jungleground (1995). Doig got her first big break with a starring role in the movie No Alibi in 2000. She also landed the title role in Gene Roddenberry's sci-fi TV series Andromeda where, from 2000 to 2005, she portrayed the Andromeda Ascendant ship's computer in three personas — as the ship's powerful AI (artificial intelligence) on the ship's screen, as the AI's hologram, and as Rommie, the android avatar of the AI.

In 2001, she played the female lead role of "Dr. Rowan LaFontaine" in the horror film Jason X, the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th film series. In a recurring role as Dr. Carolyn Lam, Doig appeared in 11 episodes of the ninth and tenth seasons of Stargate SG-1 between 2005–2007. In 2010, Doig appeared in six episodes in the remake of V as the alien physician Dr. Leah Pearlman. In 2012, she began playing the role of Liber8 terrorist Sonya Valentine in the Canadian science fiction TV series Continuum.

In 2017, Doig began playing the recurring role of Talia al Ghul in the fifth season of Arrow. The same year she began portraying DeAnn Anderson, one of the main roles in the E! television series The Arrangement.

In 2019, Doig joined the cast of the Netflix television series Virgin River, based on the Virgin River series of novels by Robyn Carr, playing Paige Lassiter.

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