Lexa Doig

. Field has three sons, two from her first and one from her second marriage. 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. In 1984 she married Alan Greisman, but divorced again in 1993. On 2 August 2003 she married fellow actor Michael Shanks, and the two welcomed daughter Mia Tabitha on 13 September 2004. She was first married to Steven Craig from 1968 to 1975 and divorced. When not performing, Doig enjoys reading, rollerblading and playing RPG video games, "Dungeons and Dragons" being her favourite. Field dated Burt Reynolds during many years, but never accepted his proposals of marriage.

More recently, she has expanded into significant feature film roles, including the female lead in Jason X (2001). She won another Oscar in 1984 for her starring role in Places in the Heart: her gushing acceptance speech is one of the best known of its kind, including the much-parodied line, "You like me, you really like me.". 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. In 1979, she starred as a union organizer in Norma Rae, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. I knew then I'd chosen the right profession and I've never looked back since.". She won an Emmy Award for her performance. I was leaping around my parents' house and screaming at the top of my lungs. In 1976, Field was finally able to show that she could play this kind of role, starring as the title character afflicted with multiple personality syndrome in the TV film Sybil.

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. Having played mostly comic characters on television, Field was not initially regarded as having much potential as a dramatic actress. Her first significant role was on William Shatner's series TekWar. She then went on to star in The Flying Nun. She worked on stage productions of Romeo and Juliet and Arsenic and Old Lace while auditioning for film and television roles. She got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck surfer-girl in the series Gidget. She did commercials and modelling work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career. Her mother, Margaret Field, was an actress, and her step-father, a former stunt-man, was Western actor Jock Mahoney.

At the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a modelling course and was immediately picked up by an agent. Born in Pasadena, California, she grew up in a Hollywood family. 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. Sally Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American movie and television actress. Doig's "exotic" appearance stems from her mixed heritage - Scottish on her father's side, Filipina on her mother's. Stay Hungry (1976). Doig (born 8 June 1973) is a Canadian actress best known for her role on the science-fiction television series Andromeda. Smokey and the Bandit (1977).

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