Early life

Doig was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the younger child of Gloria B. Lecciones and David W. Doig. Her mother is a registered nurse who originally came from Dumaguete City, Philippines, and her father is a Canadian engineer of Scottish and Irish ancestry who was a petroleum executive officer in Toronto.

As a child, Doig studied rhythmic gymnastics and, as a teenager, she studied American Sign Language. At the age of six, she wrote and directed her first school play, Strawberry Shortcake, giving the lead role to her best friend. She developed a strong interest in acting and became inspired to become an actor at age 9 after she watched a theatre production of Porgy and Bess, an opera by George Gershwin.

Career

Early modeling

While completing compulsory secondary education at Don Mills Collegiate Institute, she also enrolled in a vocational modelling programme where 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 as occupation.

The initial media exposure led to her co-hosting the Canadian game show Video & Arcade Top 10 (1991-2006). While auditioning for television and film roles, she worked on theatre productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace.

Acting

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. 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. 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 dimensions — as the ship's powerful AI (artificial intelligence) on the system's screen, as the AI's hologram, and as Rommie, the android avatar of the AI.

In 2002, she played the female lead role of “Dr. Rowan LaFontaine” in the horror film Jason X, the 10th installment of the Friday the 13th film series. 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 6 episodes in the remake of V as the alien physician Dr. Leah Pearlman. In 2012, she began playing the role of Liber8 terrorist Sonya Valentine in the Canadian science fiction TV series Continuum.

Personal life

Lexa Doig dated actor Michael Shanks after they met on the set of Andromeda, 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 have two children, in addition to Shanks' child by a previous relationship.

Doig and Shanks are actively involved as charity fundraising partners for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada. They worked together in the action thriller Tactical Force (2011), in which Doig portrayed a female LAPD SWAT officer and Shanks played the role of a Russian mob leader.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1993	The Hidden Room	Second Girl	Episode: Marion & Jean
1994	TekWar	Cowgirl	TV Movie
	TekWar: TekLords	Cowgirl	TV Movie
1995	Jungleground	Spider
1994-1996	TekWar (TV series)	Cowgirl	Recurring role (5 episodes)
1996	Taking the Falls	Netta	Episode: From Russia with Love
	F/X: The Series	Reporter	Episode: French Kiss
	Flash Gordon	Dale Arden	Voice
	Ready or Not	Receptionist	Episode: Glamour Girl
1997	While My Pretty One Sleeps	Tse Tse	TV Movie
1999	Teen Sorcery	Mercedes	Video
	CI5: The New Professionals	Tina Backus	Main role (13 episodes)
1999-2000	Traders	M.J. Sullivan	Recurring role (5 episodes)
2000	Code Name Phoenix	Conchita Flores	TV Movie
	No Alibi	Camille
	Earth: Final Conflict	Joan Price	Episode: Abduction
2001	The Tracker	Kim Chang	TV Movie
2002	Jason X	Rowan LaFontaine	Main Protagonist
	The Chris Isaak Show	Detective Lucy Ramirez	Episode: Home of the Brave
2004	Human Cargo	Rachel Sanders	TV Mini-Series
2005	The 4400	Wendy Paulson	Recurring role (4 episodes)
	Killer Instinct	Hospital Doctor	Episode: Forget Me Not
2000-2005	Andromeda	Andromeda Ascendant/Rommie	Main role (109 episodes)
2005-2007	Stargate SG-1	Dr. Carolyn Lam	Recurring role (11 episodes)
2007	Second Sight	Jenny Morris	TV Movie
2007-2008	Eureka	Dr. Anne Young	Episodes: Maneater and Best in Faux
2008	The Green Film	The Star	Short
	Ba'al: The Storm God	Pena	TV Movie
2009	Fireball	Ava	TV Movie
	Supernatural	Risa	Episode: The End
2010	V	Dr. Leah Pearlman	Recurring role (6 episodes)
2010-2011	Smallville	Dr. Christina Lamell	Episodes: Harvest & Scion (Scenes deleted)
2011	Health Nutz	Ivonka	Episode: Good News, Bad News
	Tactical Force	Jannard
2013	Primeval: New World	Dr. Mara Fridkin	Episodes: The Sound of Thunder - Pt. 1 and The Sound of Thunder - Pt. 2
2012-2015	Continuum	Sonya Valentine	Main character (21 episodes)
2012-2014	Arctic Air	Petra Hossa	Recurring role (9 episodes)
2014	Saving Hope	Dr. Selina Quintos	Season 3, episodes: Stand By Me, The Heartbreak Kid and Days of Heaven
2015	Aurora Teagarden Mystery: A Bone to Pick	Sally	TV Movie

[ Source: Wikipedia ]