Stargate 2011 Guests
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Paul McGillion
Paul McGillion was born in Paisley, Scotland but immigrated with his family to Canada at the age of 2. He's worked extensively in Film, TV and Theatre for the past 15 years and is best known for the role of 'Dr.Carson Beckett', the lovable Scottish physician in "Stargate: Atlantis". Paul also recently co-starred in the movie 'Just Breathe' alongside The Office's Melora Hardin and the independent feature "A Dog's Breakfast", working with Atlantis co-star David Hewlett.
Other feature film credits include "The Deal" with Christian Slater and Selma Blair, "Jack" with Ron Silver, Stockard Channing and Anton Yelchin, "A Guy Thing" with Julia Stiles and Jason Lee and the award winning "See Grace Fly" which Paul was nominated in the 2004 'Lead Male' Leo Award category, for his heart wrenching performance as 'Dominic McKinley'.
Television credits include lead and guest starring roles on "Da Vinci's Inquest", "Cold Squad", "Smallville", "Stargate: SG1", "The Twilight Zone" and "The X-Files".
Theatre credits include leading roles in productions such as "The Foreigners", "Piano", "Savage in Limbo", "El Salvador", and the Jessie nominated "Reservations for Two" which McGillion produced and directed to rave reviews.
Kavan Smith
Kavan Joel Smith was born on May 6th 1970 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and raised in nearby Calgary. As a child he excelled in sports with an affinity for football and the martial arts. As he grew older he also found a talent for acting and after a brief stint studying economics, he received a degree in acting at Mount Royal College.
As an actor in Vancouver, Smith has made a career of performing in many of the United States' most appreciated TV series including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Hope Island, Smallville, The Twilight Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Human Target, Sanctuary and Eureka. He performed five different roles in five episodes of the acclaimed series The Outer Limits. Soon after he was playing the American Pilot in Brian DePalma's Mission To Mars. He then portrayed the role of "Major Lorne" on SG1 and the role was brought back on Stargate: Atlantis three years later in a recurring role. Smith also landed a recurring role in the series The 4400 as "Agent Garrity.". Kavan co-stars with Felicia Day in the SyFy film adaption Red, which tells the modern dark story of Red Riding Hood.
In addition to acting, Kavan has also narrated the Canadian made documentaries Combat School and Jetstream.
Cliff Simon
Simon was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the fourth child of Emmanuelle and Phylis Simon. From a very young age, Cliff aspired to be the first South African swimmer to win an Olympic Gold medal. His mother, a swimming teacher, taught him from a very young age, and at age 6 he began to show talent as a gymnast. By age 15, Cliff had reached a national level in South Africa in both swimming and gymnastics, but he decided to discontinue training in gymnastics to better focus on swimming.
In 1975, his parents decided to emigrate to the United Kingdom, due to the turmoils in Africa. It was there that Simon completed his schooling and was chosen to swim in the British International squad. He competed in Olympic trials and qualified for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He was offered scholarships to the University of Houston and Southern Methodist University in Texas, where he trained with the United States swimming team, the Mustangs. This would have culminated in him competing in the 1984 Olympic Games. However, after three years of intense training, he decided to quit and return to South Africa, due to his concerns that he was missing out on his social life.
Back in South Africa, Simon entered the air force where he continued his swimming and achieved the highest athletic award given in the air force, the Victor Ludorum.
In 1982, after serving his two year term in the air force, he landed a job teaching windsurfing and waterskiing at a resort hotel. As fate would have it, a stage show was in production at the resort and Simon was informed by one of the performers that the choreographer was looking for a gymnast. Simon somehow knew that this was going to be the first step towards a career on stage. Simon subsequently performed all over the world in various stage productions as a dancer/acrobat, culminating in his dream role as a performer at the world famous Moulin Rouge, Paris, in 1989.
On his return to South Africa, Simon pursued his stage career as an actor. Whilst studying drama, Simon secured himself a modelling agent and enjoyed success in ramp, print and television commercials. Simon received recognition as a model in South Africa and was asked to enter the Mr. South Africa talent and action man competition. On winning this competition in 1992, Simon was offered an audition on a successful television series, Egoli: Place of Gold. After guest starring on the show for three months, he accepted a permanent contract for a lead role in the show, which he continued for six years.
In 1997, he married his girlfriend in a game lodge in South Africa. After being personally affected by the high levels of crime in Johannesburg, he decided to immigrate to the USA, hoping for a better quality of life. This also gave him the opportunity to further his acting career.
Arriving in 2000 in Los Angeles, Simon secured an agent, and landed a guest star role with Don Johnson on the hit TV series, Nash Bridges. A short time after that, he acquired the guest star role of the baddest of the bad Ba'al on Stargate SG-1. Cliff's combination of charming bad guy charisma and wicked sense of humor made him a viewer favorite antagonist, keeping his character recurring for five seasons. In 2007, Simon was brought back to play Ba'al in the Stargate movie Stargate: Continuum.
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