Lexa Doig

. Elsie Ferguson was interred in the Duck River Cemetery in Old Lyme, Connecticut. 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. A very wealthy woman with no heirs, and a lover of animals, on her passing in 1961 she left a large part of her considerable estate to a variety of charities including several for animal welfare. On 2 August 2003 she married fellow actor Michael Shanks, and the two welcomed daughter Mia Tabitha on 13 September 2004. Ferguson made her final appearance on Broadway in 1943 at the age of 60 that met with critical acclaim. When not performing, Doig enjoys reading, rollerblading and playing RPG video games, "Dungeons and Dragons" being her favourite. Married four times, following her final marriage at age 51 she and her husband acquired a farm in Connecticut and divided their time between it and her Cap d'Antibes home on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France.

More recently, she has expanded into significant feature film roles, including the female lead in Jason X (2001). Despite her wealth and fame and glamorous lifestyle, Elsie Ferguson's personal life had more than its share of turmoil. 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. Although her voice came across well enough, at age 47 she was well past her prime for fans who wanted to see her as the great youthful beauty she had once been. I knew then I'd chosen the right profession and I've never looked back since.". In 1930 she made her first talkie that would also be her final film. I was leaping around my parents' house and screaming at the top of my lungs. In 1925 she made one film only before returning to the Broadway stage.

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. It is considered her best work in film. Her first significant role was on William Shatner's series TekWar. One of these was the 1921 film entitled Forever in which she starred opposite the leading heartthrob of the day, Wallace Reid. She worked on stage productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for film and television roles. In 1921, she accepted another contract offer from Paramount Pictures to star in four films to be spread over a two-year period. She did commercials and modelling work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career. She fell in love with Paris and the French Riviera and within a few years bought a permanent home there.

At the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up by an agent. In 1920, she traveled to the Middle East and Europe. 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. Elsie Ferguson eventually followed the move west and bought a home in the hills of Hollywood, California. Doig's "exotic" appearance stems from her mixed heritage - Scottish on her father's side, Filipina on her mother's. Many of the films she agreed to do were because they were adaptations of stage plays with which she was familiar. Doig (born 8 June 1973) is a Canadian actress best known for her role on the science-fiction television series Andromeda. Continuing to play roles of elegant society women, Ferguson was quickly dubbed "The Aristocrat of the Silent Screen." But the aristocratic label was also because she was known as a difficult and sometimes arrogant personality to work with.

Alexandra L. At the peak of her popularity, several film studios offered her a contract but she declined them all until the widely respected New York based French director Maurice Tourneur proposed she appear in the lead role as a sophisticated patrician in his 1917 silent film, "Barbary Sheep". Following this first film, Elsie Ferguson starred in two more films directed by Tourneur under a lucrative contract from Paramount Pictures that paid her $1,000 per day of filming. LexaDoig.org (http://www.lexadoig.org/). Ferguson, noted for her great beauty and as one of the "Park Avenue aristocrats," on one occasion is reputed to have sold $85,000.00 worth of bonds in less than an hour. Lexa Online (http://www.lexaonline.com/). During World War I, a number of Broadway stars organized a campaign to sell Liberty Bonds from the theatre stage prior to the performance as well as at highly publicized appearances at places such as the New York Public Library. TekWar (1994). In 1910 she spent time on the stage in London, England.