ACTOR

Michael Shanks

1970 - Today

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Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15, 1970) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Daniel Jackson in the long-running military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and as Dr. Charles Harris in the Canadian medical drama Saving Hope. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Shanks has received more than 3,194,402 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Michael Shanks is the 5,334th most popular actor (down from 4,991st in 2019), the 426th most popular biography from Canada (down from 409th in 2019) and the 122nd most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Shanks by language

Over the past year Michael Shanks has had the most page views in the with 392,348 views, followed by French (57,112), and German (55,361). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (81.47%), Bosnian (55.41%), and Interlingua (55.03%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michael Shanks ranks 5,334 out of 13,578. Before him are Peyton List, Louis Koo, Kris Wu, John Schneider, Matthew Labyorteaux, and Hans Deppe. After him are Alf Kjellin, Shelley Morrison, Spike Milligan, Mum Jokmok, Michael Beach, and Roy Dotrice.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1970, Michael Shanks ranks 180. Before him are Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jørn Lier Horst, David James, Peta Wilson, Paco Jémez, and Louis Koo. After him are Jason Orange, Charisma Carpenter, Masahiro Sakurai, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, John Carmack, and Julieta Venegas.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Michael Shanks ranks 426 out of 1,622. Before him are Patricia Jones (1930), Justine Musk (1972), Matt Craven (1956), Tricia Helfer (1974), Marc-André Hamelin (1961), and Kevin Durand (1974). After him are Brock Chisholm (1896), Peter Kirby (1931), Jack Kruschen (1922), Robertson Davies (1913), Frank Dixon (1878), and Anne Murray (1945).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Michael Shanks ranks 122. Before him are Shawn Ashmore (1979), Emmanuelle Chriqui (1975), Jason Gray-Stanford (1970), Matt Craven (1956), Tricia Helfer (1974), and Kevin Durand (1974). After him are Jack Kruschen (1922), Roy Dupuis (1963), Steven Ogg (1973), Lochlyn Munro (1966), Lucile Watson (1879), and Dean Butler (1956).

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Television and Movie Roles

Red Riding Hood
Adrien Lazar
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect...and bait
Mar 10o 20115.958 / 10
Stargate SG-1
Daniel Jackson
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
8.243 / 10
Elysium
CCB Agent
In the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Rhodes, a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration laws and preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium. That doesn’t stop the people of Earth from trying to get in, by any means they can. When unlucky Max is backed into a corner, he agrees to take on a daunting mission that, if successful, will not only save his life, but could bring equality to these polarized worlds.
Aug 7o 20136.504 / 10