Lexa Doig

. Filmography. Doig, Shanks and Mia divide their time between Toronto and Vancouver, the centre of the Canadian film industry, with plans to move to Los Angeles in the near future. Famous Songs. On 2 August 2003 she married fellow actor Michael Shanks, and the two welcomed daughter Mia Tabitha on 13 September 2004. She made a final appearance at the Royal Variety Show at the age of eighty in 1978. When not performing, Doig enjoys reading, rollerblading and playing RPG video games, "Dungeons and Dragons" being her favourite. She did a great deal of charity work, and established a home on the island of Capri.

More recently, she has expanded into significant feature film roles, including the female lead in Jason X (2001). She continued recording, but made no more films, moving more towards light classical music as popular tastes changed. Doig landed the role of Tina Backus on the short-lived series CI5: The New Professionals in 1998, and finally burst into the spotlight with her role as the title character on the sci-fi series Andromeda. After the war, Fields continued her career on a less active basis. I knew then I'd chosen the right profession and I've never looked back since.". Although she spent much of her time entertaining troops and supporting the war effort outside Britain, this led to a fall-off in her popularity. I was leaping around my parents' house and screaming at the top of my lungs. However because Banks remained an Italian citizen and would have been interned in the United Kingdom, Fields was forced to leave Britain during World War II.

Doig recalls the time she heard the news of this role: "I walked out of the audition absolutely convinced I had blown it, and then my agent called to tell me I got the part. In 1940 she married film director, Monte Banks, following her divorce from Pitt. Her first significant role was on William Shatner's series TekWar. She went on to make films in both England and America. She worked on stage productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for film and television roles. Her most famous song, which became her theme, Sally, was worked into the title of her first cinema film, Sally in Our Alley (1931), which was a major box-office hit. She did commercials and modelling work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career. Fields had a great rapport with her audience, which helped her become one of Britain's highest paid performers.

At the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up by an agent. She gained a devoted following with a mixture of self-deprecating jokes, comic songs and monologues, as well as cheerful "depression-era" songs all presented in a "no-airs-and-graces" northern, working class style. She was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, where her family held season tickets to their local theatre, and caught the acting bug at the age of nine, after seeing a production of Porgy and Bess. Fields came to major public notice at the Alhambra Theatre in London's West End in 1925, making the first of ten appearances in Royal Variety Shows in 1928. Doig's "exotic" appearance stems from her mixed heritage - Scottish on her father's side, Filipina on her mother's. In 1915 she married struggling comic Archie Pitt, who became her manager. Doig (born 8 June 1973) is a Canadian actress best known for her role on the science-fiction television series Andromeda. Her professional debut in variety took place at the Rochdale Hippodrome theatre in 1910.

Alexandra L. Born over a fish and chip shop in Rochdale, in Lancashire, she made her first stage appearance as a child in 1905. LexaDoig.org (http://www.lexadoig.org/). Gracie Fields, born Grace Stansfield (January 9, 1898 - September 27, 1979) was a British singer and comedian who became one of the greatest stars of both cinema and music hall. Lexa Online (http://www.lexaonline.com/). 1945 Paris Underground (U.S.). TekWar (1994). 1945 Molly and Me (U.S.).