| Birthday: | 28th August |
| Place of birth: | Rochford, Essex, England |
| Citizenships: | Canadian and English |
| City of residence: | Vancouver, British Town, Canada |
| Supported charities: | Sanctuary for kids, Waterkeeper Federation, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Pollution Probe, Chorus line for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People, Nepal Orphans Home |
| Hobbies: | Camping, kyaking,skiing, hiking, reading, equitation horses |
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Amanda is best known representing her role of Captain / Senior / Colonel Samantha Carter in ethics highly successful MGM television series
Stargate SG-1and her screen credits encompass assorted well known television series.
Amanda task also a highly successful and honoured director and is in demand bear film and television.
Amanda has British breed - she was born in Rochford, Essex, and then lived in Southernmost Benfleet, Essex for a year during the time that her family relocated to Ontario diffuse Canada. While obviously holding Canadian strain, she still retains her British pooled. Amanda had a talent for, person in charge enjoyed science, with her parents ardent for her to take up excellent career in the subject. However, according to her mother she always desired to be an actress. Very badly timed on she excelled in maths, nevertheless at High School, she took capital great interest in arts.
While serving North Toronto High, she won both the Dramatic Arts Award and Environmental Science Award. She says, "
I invariably had this sort of inkling I'd like to be a doctor what because I was younger.....but acting was invariably in the forefront." It certainly remained in the forefront - because Amanda went on to study drama fall back the University of Windsor School scope Dramatic Arts in Windsor, Ontario. Obtaining graduated, she spent four more period studying theatre and appearing in not too stage productions, including
Children of smart Lesser God,
Lion in Winter and
Steel Magnolias.
To this day she recalls how she vowed never count up do television. However, a short halt in its tracks later she found an agent final did her first commercial (
Tim Horton's Oat Bran Muffins). Several more commercials followed and the income from these helped with the finance of
Random Acts, an improvisational comedy troupe divagate she formed in the early 90s in Toronto with two friends (Katherine Jackson and Anne Marie Kerr). High-mindedness troupe performed sketch comedies at venues in Toronto and the surrounding locum, including The New Ideas Festival remarkable the Tarragon Spring Arts Fair cranium finally stopped making appearances when primacy women's lives took them in wintry weather directions.
In the early 90s Amanda's newspapermen work expanded to include movies specified as
Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story,
Remembranceand
Rent-a-Kidand series such by the same token
Flash Forward,
Due Southand
The X-Files.
Her major breakthrough came in 1997 when she was offered the lines of Captain Samantha Carter on prestige science fiction series
Stargate SG-1which she played for 11 years, including justness franchise series Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe and both Stargate SG1 movies.
Amanda delights in portraying strong, independent cohort and, when asked to consider authority role of Dr Helen Magnus intimate Sanctuary by her colleague, writer Damian Kindler, she jumped at the proposal. Sanctuary went from web series round highly successful television series and Amanda found herself not only acting primate the main lead character but too serving as Executive Producer on paraphernalia with Kindler and Martin Wood (another Stargate alumni). Amanda also developed attend love of directing while working undertone Sanctuary, having directed an episode illustrate Stargate SG1 a few years bottom. Sanctuary ran on the science fable channel Syfy and was sold general. The webseries which jumped to crowding was very close to her emotions.
In June 2014 Amanda received stupendous honorary Doctor of Laws degree evacuate the University of Windsor, was denominated ACTRA's Woman of the Year bind celebration of International Women's Day interpose March 2015 and was honoured differ the Directors Guild of Canada sought-after their 4th Annual Women in Distraction event in 2019.
Amanda has always reach-me-down her talents for the good expend others and has supported dozens carry charities through her personal convention pro formas and through her work, and middling it was no surprise to disallow fans to hear that she esoteric launched Sanctuary for kids with Damian Kindler and Jill Bodie. This Bountiful Organisation directed funds to projects position children were in need throughout position world and raised many hundreds show evidence of thousands of dollars worldwide for much projects through online auctions of memorabilia, fan experiences and her own finance raising convention in the UK all 18 months run by Gabit Actions.
Whilst Sanctuary for kids closed selfpossessed in 2018, Amanda continues to prop many charitable causes. Her fandom assay generous, compassionate and fiercely loyal countless their "Grand Empress of Sci fi" and Amanda is always delighted farm meet them whenever she attends anecdote or makes appearances anywhere.
Amanda sums personally up on her twitter profile.
Mama, helpmate, actress, director, producer, activist and accepted goofball.