Dagmar Midcap

A graduate of British Columbia Institute of Technology's broadcast journalism program in 1990,[http://members.shaw.ca/vancouverbroadcasters3/M.htm Vancouver Broadcasters - Dagmar Midcap] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090701075050/http://members.shaw.ca/vancouverbroadcasters3/M.htm |date=July 1, 2009 }} Midcap began her television career on WBNX-TV in Akron, Ohio, appearing on a weekly current affairs program (1990–1998).{{cite web | last=Ho | first=Rodney | title=There's something about Dagmar Midcap | website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | date=August 11, 2012 | url=https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/there-something-about-dagmar-midcap/arSIVoD967RHTsfGXX8uHO/ | access-date=February 18, 2022}} She then returned to British Columbia, where she worked as the traffic and weather reporter on VTV's Breakfast before moving to Global Television Network's BCTV Morning Show as a fill-in traffic reporter.

Moving away from live television, she hosted Crash Test Mommy on the Life Network. In 2005 she became co-host of BCTV's Driving Television, a weekly survey of automotive industry news for which she test drove new cars on a regular basis. It was broadcast nationally in Canada on Global.

In 2007 she returned to the United States where she became the weather and traffic anchor for the Better Mornings morning show on CBS affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, beginning in April.[http://www.cbs46.com/bettermornings/13437271/detail.html CBS 46 Atlanta, GA, On-air personality since April 23, 2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106185301/http://www.cbs46.com/bettermornings/13437271/detail.html|date=January 6, 2009}} As of January 2008, she became the main weather anchor for WGCL-TV, doing forecasts during the late afternoon and evening newscasts. Midcap tendered her notice to the station on September 3, 2010, citing ongoing emotional and physical distress as a result of her boyfriend's suicide. The station acknowledged her departure on September 7, 2010.[http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2010/09/03/dagmar-midcap-puts-in-her-notice-at-wgcl-tv Dagmar Midcap puts in her notice at WGCL-TV] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100906010600/http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2010/09/03/dagmar-midcap-puts-in-her-notice-at-wgcl-tv |date=September 6, 2010 }}[http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/24911556/detail.html Dagmar Midcap Leaves CBS Atlanta] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908212701/http://www.cbsatlanta.com/news/24911556/detail.html |date=September 8, 2010 }}

On October 25, 2011, Midcap started as the weekday evening weather anchor for KNSD-TV in San Diego, California, an NBC owned-and-operated station.{{cite web | last=Ho | first=Rodney | title=Former CBS Atlanta weather person Dagmar Midcap lands a new job in San Diego | website=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | date=November 25, 2011 | url=https://www.ajc.com/blog/radiotvtalk/former-cbs-atlanta-weather-person-dagmar-midcap-lands-new-job-san-diego/Z082foyWqmUkbd650cfNEM/ | access-date=February 18, 2022}}{{cite web | title=Dagmar Midcap | website=NBC 7 San Diego | date=November 9, 2011 | url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/local/dagmar-midcap/2071943/ | access-date=February 18, 2022}} Midcap took a leave of absence in August 2023, with the station ultimately announcing her departure in October 2023. Midcap stated she was "living through her third life-changing chapter",{{Cite web |last=Griffin |first=Rick |date=October 8, 2023 |title=MarketInk: TV Weathercaster Dagmar Midcap Survives Cult, Boyfriend's Suicide, Now Unemployment |url=https://timesofsandiego.com/business/2023/10/08/marketink-tv-weathercaster-dagmar-midcap-survives-cult-boyfriends-suicide-now-unemployment/ |access-date=October 9, 2023 |website=Times of San Diego}} after departing from a cult she was raised in and her boyfriend committing suicide while she was working as a weather anchor in Atlanta.

In Canada, Midcap often appeared in film and television series produced in the Vancouver area. She has appeared in such films as Catwoman,{{cite book | last1=Willis | first1=J. | last2=Monush | first2=B. | title=Screen World: 2005 Film Annual | publisher=Hal Leonard | series=John Willis Screen World Series | year=2006 | isbn=978-1-55783-668-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCCkhsztnYgC&pg=PA106 | access-date=February 18, 2022 | page=106}} Baby Geniuses 2 and Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch. Television appearances have included Smallville, Stargate SG-1, Dead Zone, Just Cause, Medium, Touching Evil and Twilight Zone, among others.{{cite web | title=At Home With Dagmar Midcap | website=Ranch & Coast Magazine | date=June 3, 2013 | url=https://ranchandcoast.com/people/personalities/dagmar-midcap/ | access-date=February 18, 2022}} She has also had recurring roles on the series Dark Angel.{{cite book | last=Muir | first=J.K. | title=The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film and Television, 2d ed. | publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers | year=2008 | isbn=978-0-7864-3755-9 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dx6hBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA254 | access-date=February 18, 2022 | page=254}}

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