Alexandra Doig (born June 8, 1973) is a Canadian actress. She played the

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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 ''

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'' (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

Doig was born in

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, Canada, on June 8, 1973, and grew up in

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. She is the younger child of Gloria B. Lecciones and David W. Doig. Her mother is a registered nurse who originally came from

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, and her father is a Canadian engineer of

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ancestry who was a petroleum

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in Toronto. As a child, Doig studied

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, and as a teenager studied

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. She developed a strong interest in

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and was inspired to become an actor at age nine after she watched a theatre production of ''

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''.

Career

Early modeling

While completing compulsory

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at Don Mills Collegiate Institute, she enrolled in a

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modelling program. There, at age 16, she was immediately offered representation by a

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and booked in various modelling projects. She chose to drop out from her final year in high school to pursue an

career. 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

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productions of ''

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'' 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

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'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 (

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) on the ship's screen, as the AI's

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, and as Rommie, the

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of the AI. In 2001, she played the female lead role of "Dr. Rowan LaFontaine" in the horror film ''

'', the tenth 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 ''

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'' between 2005–2007. In 2010, Doig appeared in six 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''. In 2017, Doig began playing the recurring role of

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in the fifth season of ''

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''. 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

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television series ''

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'', based on the ''Virgin River'' series of novels by Robyn Carr, playing Paige Lassiter.

Personal life

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 ''

''. They worked together in the action thriller '' Tactical Force'' (2011), in which Doig portrayed an

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officer and Shanks played the role of a Russian mob leader. They worked together on the Netflix Original series ''

'' (2019). They have two children, a son and a daughter, in addition to Shanks' child from a previous relationship.

Charity

Doig and Shanks are actively involved as charity fundraising partners for the

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Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Doig, Lexa 1973 births Actresses from Toronto Canadian actresses of Filipino descent Canadian film actresses Canadian people of Irish descent Canadian people of Scottish descent Canadian television actresses Living people 20th-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian voice actresses