Michael Shanks

Acting

Michael Shanks

Born 1970-12-15 · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Shanks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Elysium poster
6.5

In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.

Elysium

2013

Red Riding Hood poster
6.0

Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.

Red Riding Hood

2011

Time Cut poster
5.6

A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders her sister. Can she change the past without destroying the future?

Time Cut

2024

Stargate: The Ark of Truth poster
7.1

SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.

Stargate: The Ark of Truth

2008

Stargate: Continuum poster
7.1

Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.

Stargate: Continuum

2008

Faces in the Crowd poster
6.1

Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

Faces in the Crowd

2011

Arctic Blast poster
5.6

When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to engulf the world in ice and begin a new Ice Age.

Arctic Blast

2010

Judicial Indiscretion poster
4.8

A federal judge’s life is disrupted by sexual assault, blackmail and murder after she’s put on the shortlist to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat.

Judicial Indiscretion

2007

Swarmed poster
4.3

Residents of a small town find themselves battling a swarm of wasps which has been sprayed by a super pesticide.

Swarmed

2005

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods poster
7.2

An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

2009

Tactical Force poster
5.5

A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks.

Tactical Force

2011

Door to Door poster
7.5

Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. Bill Porter is one of those heroes. Born with cerebral palsy, he was told for many years that he was unemployable. But with the unwavering support of a dedicated mother and an indomitable spirit that has become his trademark, Porter did support himself as a door-to-door salesman in Portland, Oregon.

Door to Door

2002

The Pastor's Wife poster
6.2

Based on the true story of Matthew Winkler, a beloved minister who, in 2006, was found shot and killed in his Selmer, Tennessee home, his wife and young daughters missing. Authorities soon zeroed in on Matthew's wife, Mary, as the prime suspect in the murder. After her capture, the residents of Selmer were left to wonder what would drive Mary to shoot her husband in the back as he slept. They would get their answers during her trial, when what went on behind the closed doors of this seemingly perfect family was revealed for all to see.

The Pastor's Wife

2011

13 Eerie poster
4.7

Forensics students arriving on an isolated island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of corpses under the watchful eye of their grumpy professor. The island used to house a state penitentiary, where the authorities were experimenting on death row inmates, and now the bodies won't stay still.

13 Eerie

2013

Christmas Homecoming poster
6.7

A military widow, whose faith in Christmas has lapsed, rents an apartment to a handsome Army Captain, recovering from an injury in battle, and whose faith in Christmas is inspirational. As they team up to save the town’s military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two ‘wounded birds’ find themselves falling in love — and being healed by the magic of Christmas.

Christmas Homecoming

2017

Desperate Escape poster
3.4

After having suffered serious head trauma, Brooke tries to regain her normal life despite having lost all memory. Her wealthy fiancé helps her back to recovery in their beautiful country home. Little by little, as her memory comes back, she realizes that her fiancé is not who he says he is. The fortune is hers.

Desperate Escape

2009

Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice poster
8.5

The exhilarating, feature-length pilot episode, "Rising", sends a brilliant team of scientists through a Stargate to the legendary city of Atlantis. But not only is the city about to be engulfed by ocean water, an enemy appears who threatens everyone in the Pegasus Galaxy! And in the white-knuckle, lengthened "Enemy at the Gate" from Season 5, as the team tries to disempower Wraith hive ships, the Wraith discover coordinates that will allow them to destroy Earth!

Stargate Atlantis: Fans' Choice

2009

Mega Snake poster
2.8

Duff Daniels (John T. Woods), the younger, stupider brother of Les (Michael Shanks), can't help himself from stealing a rare snake that's been kept in a jar by a Native American snake dealer (Ben Cardinal), and which has to follow some rules: don't let it out of the jar, then don't let it eat anything anything living, and never fear the heart of the snake.

Mega Snake

2007

Sumuru poster
5.2

Based on Sax Rohmer's cult novels "Sumuru", the futuristic fantasy take you to an Earth colony in the far future in which woman rule and men are used to propagate the race and work in the mines..

Sumuru

2003

Hearts of Spring poster
5.8

A famous mommy blogger faces an empty nest as her daughter prepares to go away to college. When she turns to her blog for advice, she finds herself on the attack by a reader who has conflicting opinions. While she deals with him online, offline she finally meets a great single dad and sparks start to fly. What she doesn’t know is that the confrontational reader and the adorable single dad are, in fact, the same person.

Hearts of Spring

2016

Suspicious River poster
5.5

A young married woman sells her body, not just for money, to guests at the motel where she works as a receptionist.

Suspicious River

2001

A Family Divided poster
7.1

College swimmer Chad Billingsley is his middle class family's pride and joy. After a moody phase of scared denial, he owns up to father, attorney Roger, that Rosalie Frank, the provocatively dressed waitress who attended his frat's last party and is missing since, had sex with five of them. Roger does his utmost to prevent the potential statutory rape case ruining his son's future, but confides in his moralistic wife, refuge house worker Karen, who instead of supporting the boys haunts them like Rosalie's mother Inez, with multiple tragic results.

A Family Divided

1995

Suddenly Naked poster
4.6

A famous 'Jackie Collins' type novelist falls for a quirky twenty year old kid.

Suddenly Naked

2001

Yellow poster
NR

10 characters each experience a crossroads in their lives on a seemingly ordinary afternoon in an art gallery.

Yellow

2018