# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-shanks-q81223
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:10:15.303Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-shanks-q81223"
name: "Michael Shanks"
slug: "michael-shanks-q81223"
description: "Michael Garrett Shanks 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. He is also known for his work on low budget genre work filmed in Canada."
tagline: "Canadian actor (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Shanks_at_Gamefest_2023_Strasbourg.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "CA"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump