Amanda Tapping

Acting

Amanda Tapping

Born 1965-08-28 · Rochford, Essex, England, UK

Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965 in Rochford, Essex) is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.

Acting credits

Booty Call poster
5.3

Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double — bringing along her brash friend, Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, Bunz. Things go better than expected. As the evening transitions from the restaurant to the bedroom, the two men go on a madcap search for what will surely make the night complete: condoms.

Booty Call

1997

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

Life or Something Like It poster
5.7

A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...

Life or Something Like It

2002

Levels poster
5.8

After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.

Levels

2024

Rent-a-Kid poster
5.6

Harry Habert, owner of a rental company, has an original idea—to rent baby's from a nearby orphanage to local families. He rents the Ward siblings, 2 boys and a girl, to his first customers.

Rent-a-Kid

1995

Space Milkshake poster
5.1

Four low-ranking astronauts are stuck together on an orbital Sanitation Station after they bring a mysterious device aboard their ship and all life on Earth disappears. Little do they know they are about to come under attack by a mutating rubber duck named Gary, who wants to open a portal to his evil dimension and take over the Universe.

Space Milkshake

2012

Kid Cannabis poster
6.1

An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.

Kid Cannabis

2014

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

Woodland poster
5.5

On an island in the Pacific Northwest, a junkie photojournalist's disturbing future is revealed to him through the images he shoots.

Woodland

2018

Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story poster
7.3

Silken Laumann's dreams of winning gold at the 1992 Olympics are shattered after a training accident.

Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story

1996

The Donor poster
4.3

A man on a mountain vacation with two friends goes home with a woman he's never met. He wakes up to find that one of his kidneys has been surgically removed. He spends the rest of the film trying to find out who did it.

The Donor

1995

Taken Back: Finding Haley poster
6.7

Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?

Taken Back: Finding Haley

2012

The Void poster
3.5

Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price, Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet

The Void

2001

Sci Fi Inside: Stargate SG-1 200th Episode poster
10.0

The 200th episode of the venerated sci-fi series is discussed during this special.

Sci Fi Inside: Stargate SG-1 200th Episode

2006

The Haunting of Lisa poster
5.0

A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.

The Haunting of Lisa

1996

Net Worth poster
6.9

The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits and pensions. A dramatization based on the true story from the book of the same title.

Net Worth

1995

Stargate SG-1: True Science poster
7.7

In this documentary, Amanda Tapping, known as Samantha Carter from SG-1, shows the scientific background of the successful science fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and lets us take a look behind the scenes.

Stargate SG-1: True Science

2006

Engaged to Kill poster
5.2

Abby Lord (Maria del Mar) is kidnapped and her husband Robert Lord (Joe Lando) has to pay off a million dollar ransom. Based on a True Life story.

Engaged to Kill

2006

Blacktop poster
5.1

After a fight with her boyfriend, a woman unknowingly accepts a ride from a psychopath.

Blacktop

2000

Random Acts of Romance poster
NR

Random Acts of Romance is a feature comedy about intense characters in extreme relationship situations — and the crazy and obsessive behaviors that spring from this thing called love. The story is paced like an emotional roller coaster, punctuated by moments of uncomfortably illuminating hilarity as characters confront situations we all identify with.

Random Acts of Romance

2012

Dancing Trees poster
1.0

Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.

Dancing Trees

2009

Goosebumps: It Came from Beneath the Sink poster
7.7

When her family moves into a new house, Kat finds a sponge which appears to be alive, but no-one will believe her. After the discovery, the family is besieged by bad luck, and Kat is convinced the sponge is behind it.

Goosebumps: It Came from Beneath the Sink

1996

No artwork available
5.0

Four people, four walls, four stories, four truths.

Stuck

2002

Behind the camera