Amanda Tapping - Fact Sheet

Profession: Actress

Amanda Tapping is probably best known for her role in the MGM sci-fi television series Stargate SG-1 as Captain/Major Samantha Carter. In years 1995-1997 Amanda appeared in a number of television productions (including Flash Forward, Golden Will: The Silken Laumann Story, Amanda in The Legend Continues Shaolin Shot Remembrance, episodes of various shows like Due South, The Newsroom and The X-Files) and film productions (The Donor, Rent-a-Kid, Booty Call). Her major breakthrough, however, came in 1997 when she won the role of Captain Samantha Carter in television show Stargate SG-1. For the part of Samantha Carter she auditioned initially in Toronto and was put on tape for a casting director there. She was short-listed and so she sent the producers her demo tape containing a selection of what she feels is some of her best work in films and on television. She ended up being one of three finalists and attended a screen-test in Los Angeles. Then the waiting came. It eventually came down to two finalists - herself and another person, so she auditioned again. About two weeks before the start of filming the pilot of Stargate SG-1 she received a phone call telling her to pack her bags and move to Vancouver. Amanda Tapping played Samantha Carter for 8 years. Her typical day of work on the show lasts 14 hours. To appear as realistic as possible as Samantha Carter, a soldier and a scientist, she talked to an ex-Navy-SEAL and was learning specifically about astrophysics. During the hiatus following filming of the first season of the science fiction series Amanda shot an episode of The Outer Limits and during the next hiatus she shot an episode of Millennium. 

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Amanda Tapping Photo Galleries	# of Pictures
Candid	7
Glamour	6
Glamour	12
Screen Capture	2