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Alexandra L. Doig (born June 8, 1973 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actress who uses the stage name Lexa Doig. She is best known for her role as Rommie in the science fiction TV series Andromeda.

Biography

Doig is of Irish and Scottish descent on her father's side, and Filipina on her mother's. She was born and raised in Toronto, where her family held season tickets to their local theatre. Doig wanted to be an actress at the age of nine after seeing a production of Porgy and Bess. At sixteen, she enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up by an agent. Doig did commercials and model work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career. She worked on stage productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for film and television roles.

Doig enjoys reading, rollerblading, playing RPG computer games and Dungeons and Dragons. On August 2, 2003 she married Stargate SG-1 actor Michael Shanks. The two welcomed a daughter, Mia Tabitha, on September 13, 2004 and a son, Samuel David, in March 2006. She is also the cousin of actor Rey-Phillip Santos.The family divide their time between Toronto and Vancouver (where Shanks' series Stargate is filmed) with plans to move to Los Angeles in the near future.

Career

Doig had a small role on Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, but her first significant role was on William Shatner's series TekWar. Doig played "Cowgirl", a specialist in tracking and obtaining information from the net.

"I walked out of the audition absolutely convinced I had blown it, and then my agent called to tell me I got the part. I was leaping around my parents' house and screaming at the top of my lungs. I knew then I'd chosen the right profession and I've never looked back since."

Doig landed the role of Tina Backus on the short-lived series CI5: The New Professionals in 1998. In 2000 Doig was in another Roddenberry series, Andromeda. She portrayed the artificial intelligence of the title ship in dual roles- as seen on viewscreens or holograms, and a separate android avatar called Rommie.

In 2001, Doig was the female lead in the horror film Jason X. Doig also appeared in several episodes for the ninth season of Stargate SG-1 in a recurring role as doctor Carolyn Lam. She also has a recurring role as college professor Wendy Paulson in the second season of The 4400.

Filmography

• The 4400 (2005)
• Stargate SG-1 (2005)
• Human Cargo (2004)
• Jason X (2001)
• Andromeda (2000)
• No Alibi (2000)
• CI5: The New Professionals (1998)
• While My Pretty One Sleeps (1997)
• TekWar (1994)

External links

• LexaFans.com

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