Lexa Doig
{{short description|Canadian actress}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2023}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
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| caption = Lexa Doig at Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|mf=yes|1973|6|8}}
| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| occupation = Actress
| years_active = 1993–present
| spouse = {{marriage|Michael Shanks|2003}}
| children = 2
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Alexandra L. Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress. She played the title role in the science fiction television series Andromeda (2000–2005). She also played the lead female role of Rowan in the science fiction-action horror film Jason X (2001), the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th film series. Since 2015, Doig has appeared in the Aurora Teagarden mystery television film series on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel.
Early life
Lexa was born Alexandra Lecciones Doig and she grew up in Toronto, Ontario.{{cite web |url=https://www.tribute.ca/people/lexa-doig/5834/ |title=Lexa Doig Biography |publisher=Tribute |access-date=March 7, 2025}} Her deceased father was of Scottish descent and her mother was formerly a native of Dumaguete City, Philippines.
As a child, Doig studied rhythmic gymnastics,{{cite web|title=Lexa Doig|url=http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/doig.htm|website=littlereview.com|access-date=May 15, 2017}} and as a teenager studied American Sign Language. She developed a strong interest in acting and was inspired to become an actor at age nine after she watched a theatre production of Porgy and Bess.
Career
= Early modelling =
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.capebretonpost.com/Blog-Article/b/21175/How-awesome-was-Video-Arcade-Top-10|title=How awesome was Video & Arcade Top 10?|author=T.J. Colello|publisher=Cape Breton Post|access-date=January 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205611/http://www.capebretonpost.com/Blog-Article/b/21175/How-awesome-was-Video-Arcade-Top-10|archive-date=March 3, 2016|url-status=dead}} While auditioning for television and film roles, she worked on theatre productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace.{{cite web|url=http://www.personal.u-net.com/~carnfort/Professionals/np_stars.htm|title=The Authorised Guide to The New Professionals|publisher=Dave Matthews|access-date=January 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605221847/http://www.personal.u-net.com/~carnfort/Professionals/np_stars.htm|archive-date=June 5, 2013|url-status=dead}}
= Acting =
File:Lexa Doig (5839955855).jpg in 2004]]
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.{{cite web|title=GAME CHANGER: Lexa Doig Talks Career, Her Latest Roles and Creative Evolution!|url=http://www.iconvsicon.com/2017/03/14/game-changer-lexa-doig-talks-career-her-latest-roles-and-creative-evolution/|website=Icon vs. Icon|access-date=May 14, 2017|date=March 14, 2017}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/lexa_doig|title=Lexa Doig|publisher=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=January 15, 2013}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.littlereview.com/getcritical/interviews/doig.htm|title=Lexa Doig: The Galaxy's Sexiest Starship|author=Michelle Erica Green|work=SFX|access-date=January 15, 2013}}
In 2001, she played the female lead role of "Dr. Rowan LaFontaine" in the horror film Jason X, the tenth instalment of the Friday the 13th film series.{{cite web|url=http://www.conventionscene.com/2013/01/07/emerald-city-comicon-2013-adds-lexa-doig|title=Emerald City Comicon 2013 Adds Lexa Doig|author=Brian Pate|publisher=Convention Scene|date=January 7, 2013}} 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.{{cite web|title='V' casts Charles Mesure, Lexa Doig|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/v-the-series/news/a201379/v-casts-charles-mesure-lexa-doig/|website=Digital Spy|access-date=May 15, 2017|language=en|date=February 4, 2010}} In 2012, she began playing the role of Liber8 terrorist Sonya Valentine in the Canadian science fiction TV series Continuum.{{cite web|title=Taking Charge: Interview with Continuum's Lexa Doig|url=http://scifiandtvtalk.typepad.com/scifiandtvtalk/2013/06/taking-charge-interview-with-continuums-lexa-doig.html|website=SciFiAndTvTalk|access-date=May 15, 2017}}
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.{{cite web |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |last2=Petski |first2=Denise |title='Virgin River': Alexandra Breckenridge, Martin Henderson, Tim Matheson & Annette O'Toole To Star In Netflix Series |url= https://deadline.com/2018/12/virgin-river-alexandra-breckenridge-martin-henderson-tim-matheson-annette-otoole-to-star-in-netflix-series-1202522991/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |date=December 19, 2018 |access-date=October 21, 2020}}
Personal life
Doig dated actor Michael Shanks after they met on the set of Andromeda,{{cite web|title=How They Met: How Lexa Doig and Michael Shanks make marriage work|url=http://www.postcity.com/Eat-Shop-Do/Do/April-2017/How-They-Met-How-Lexa-Doig-and-Michael-Shanks-make-marriage-work/|website=postcity.com|date=April 27, 2017 |access-date=May 14, 2017|language=en}} where the former starred and the latter guest-starred in the 2001 episode "Star Crossed". They married on August 2, 2003, and they worked together again in the 2003 episode "Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath" of the same TV series. The couple were castmates in the final two seasons of Stargate SG-1. They worked together in the action thriller Tactical Force (2011), in which Doig portrayed an LAPD SWAT officer and Shanks played the role of a Russian mob leader. They worked together on the Netflix Original series Virgin River (2019). They have two children, a son and a daughter, in addition to Shanks' child from a previous relationship.
Doig and Shanks are actively involved as charity fundraising partners for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.{{cite web|title=MSOL Annual Auction Kicks Off Today (Sept. 27) – Solutions Blog|url=http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/2010/09/msol-annual-auction-kicks-off-today-sept-27/|website=Solutions Blog|access-date=May 15, 2017|date=September 27, 2010}}
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1995
| Jungleground | Spider | |
| 1999
| Teen Sorcery | Mercedes | Direct-to-video film |
| 2000
| No Alibi | Camille | |
| 2001
| Jason X | Rowan LaFontaine | |
| 2011
| Jannard | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |
|---|
| 1993
| data-sort-value="Hidden Room, The" | The Hidden Room | Second Girl | Episode: "Marion & Jean" |
| 1994
| TekWar | Cowgirl | Television film |
| 1994
| Cowgirl | Television film |
| 1994–1996
| TekWar | Cowgirl | Recurring role (5 episodes) |
| 1996
| Netta | Episode: "From Russia with Love" |
| 1996
| Reporter | Episode: "French Kiss" |
| 1996
| Dale Arden | Main voice role |
| 1996
| Receptionist | Episode: "Glamour Girl" |
| 1997
| While My Pretty One Sleeps | Tse Tse | Television film |
| 1999
| Tina Backus | Main role |
| 1999–2000
| Traders | M.J. Sullivan | Recurring role (season 5), 5 episodes |
| 2000
| Conchita Flores | Television film |
| 2000
| Joan Price | Episode: Abduction |
| 2001
| data-sort-value="Tracker, The" | The Tracker | Kim Chang | Television film |
| 2002
| data-sort-value="Chris Isaak Show, The" | The Chris Isaak Show | Detective Lucy Ramirez | Episode: "Home of the Brave" |
| 2004
| Rachel Sanders | Television miniseries |
| 2005
| data-sort-value="4400, The" | The 4400 | Wendy Paulson | 4 episodes |
| 2005
| Hospital Doctor | Episode: "Forget Me Not" |
| 2000–2005
| Andromeda Ascendant / Rommie | Main role |
| 2005–2007
| Recurring role (seasons 9–10), 11 episodes |
| 2007
| Second Sight | Jenny Morris | Television film |
| 2007–2008
| Eureka | Dr. Anne Young | Episodes: "Maneater", "Best in Faux" |
| 2008
| Ba'al: The Storm God | Pena | Television film |
| 2009
| Fireball | Ava | Television film |
| 2009
| Risa | Episode: "The End" |
| 2010
| V | Dr. Leah Pearlman | Recurring role (season 1), 6 episodes |
| 2010–2011
| Dr. Christina Lamell | Episodes: "Harvest", "Scion" (scenes deleted{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}) |
| 2011
| Ivonka | Episode: "Good News, Bad News" |
| 2013
| Dr. Mara Fridkin | Episodes: "The Sound of Thunder, Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2012–2015
| Sonya Valentine | Main role (seasons 1–3) |
| 2012–2014
| Petra Hossa | Recurring role, 9 episodes |
| 2014
| Dr. Selina Quintos | 3 episodes |
| 2015
| data-sort-value="Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, A" | A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2015
| Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2016
| Three Bedrooms, One Corpse: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2016
| data-sort-value="Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, The" | The Julius House: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| {{no wrap|2017–2020}}
| Arrow | Recurring role (seasons 5, 7–8) |
| 2017–2018
| data-sort-value="Arrangement, The" | The Arrangement | Deann Anderson | Main role |
| 2017
| Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2017
| data-sort-value="Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, A" | A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2018
| Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2018
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2019
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2019
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inhertiance to Die For | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2019
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2019–2023
| Paige Lassiter | Recurring role |
| 2020
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2020
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and it Feels So Deadly | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2021
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2021
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2021
| Chucky | Bree Wheeler | Recurring role (season 1) |
| 2022
| Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder | Sally Allison | Television film |
| 2023
| Sarah | Recurring role |
References
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External links
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Category:Actresses from Toronto
Category:Canadian actresses of Filipino descent
Category:Canadian film actresses
Category:Canadian people of Irish descent
Category:Canadian people of Scottish descent
Category:Canadian television actresses
Category:20th-century Canadian actresses
Category:21st-century Canadian actresses