He later reprised the role in the final episode of the ninth season. Shanks' latest television guest roles were as archaeologist Carter Hall, DC Comics' superhero Hawkman, in the Smallville episode " Absolute Justice". In the same year he starred in the film Arctic Blast, a disaster film, as physicist Jack Tate. In 2010, Shanks appeared in an episode of Sanctuary, which stars fellow Stargate actor Amanda Tapping. The film premiered on the cable network on December 20, 2008. Shanks was featured in a lead role in the SciFi Channel's adventure film, The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon as Jacob Thain opposite Beverly Hills, 90210 and Charmed alumna Shannen Doherty. He appeared in the episode " All That Glitters.", with a mention of his character in the episode " A Night At Global Dynamics".
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In 2008, Shanks had a guest starring role in one episode of the SciFi Channel series Eureka, as an alchemist somewhat responsible for the near destruction of the town due to a student's mixing chemicals in his lab and thereby creating the "Alchemist curse". In 2008–2009, Shanks had a recurring role on the second season of the USA Network spy series Burn Notice, playing Victor Stecker-Epps, a fellow burned spy and maniacal counterpoint to series lead Jeffrey Donovan's character. In 2007, Shanks joined the Fox Network series 24, guest-starring as lobbyist Mark Bishop in a three-episode arc for season 6. He also auditioned for the role of Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis. In 2002, Shanks starred in the German/UK/South African co-production Sumuru, a science fiction B-movie, as astronaut Adam Wade. Coincidentally, they played two androids who fell in love with each other. In 2001, Shanks guest starred in the episode "Star-Crossed" in the Sci-Fi series Andromeda, during which he met his future wife, Lexa Doig. He also appeared in the episodes "Human" and "Subversion".
He also appeared in the tenth and eleventh episodes of Atlantis ' fifth and final season, and made a cameo appearance in the pilot of the third Stargate series Stargate Universe. In 2004, Shanks made a crossover appearance (as Daniel Jackson) in the Stargate Atlantis pilot, " Rising". He appeared in both direct-to-DVD Stargate films released in 2008, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum, and won the 2009 Leo Award for Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama for Continuum. During the series' tenth and final season, he signed up for 16 of the 20 episodes, taking some time off in March 2006 for the birth of his third child (second with wife and occasional co-star Lexa Doig). Shanks returned for the seventh and subsequent seasons, winning the Leo Award for Best Lead Performance By A Male in a Dramatic Series in 2004 for the seventh season episode "Lifeboat". He made several guest appearances throughout the sixth season playing his own character, as well as voicing the Asgard character Thor. Daniel Jackson throughout the first five seasons of Stargate SG-1 before leaving the show at the end of its fifth season, citing creative differences concerning the under-use of his character and the direction of the show as a whole. Parts in the television movies A Family Divided and The Call of the Wild preceded his casting in his breakthrough role as Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1. His television career began with guest appearances on shows including Highlander and The Commish. He later appeared in several stage productions while serving a two-year apprenticeship with the prestigious Stratford Festival in Ontario. After witnessing Richard Dean Anderson prepare for a scene of MacGyver, Shanks "decided to pursue a little further", opting to attend the University of British Columbia's fine arts program until 1994. Shanks was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up in Kamloops.
He is also known for his work on low budget genre work filmed in Canada. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Charles Harris in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope. Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor.
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