Actor Bio
Alexandra Lecciones Doig is a Canadian actress. She portrayed the title role in the 2000–05 Canadian-American science fiction-adventure television series Andromeda. She also portrayed the female lead role of Rowan in the science fiction-action horror film Jason X (2002), the tenth installment of the Friday the 13th film series and appears in the Aurora Teagarden mystery films on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel.
Doig was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is the younger child of Gloria B. Lecciones and David W. Doig. Her mother is a registered nurse who originally came from Dumaguete City, Philippines, and her father is a Canadian engineer of Scottish and Irish ancestry who was a petroleum executive officer in Toronto.
As a child, Doig studied rhythmic gymnastics and, as a teenager, she studied American Sign Language. She developed a strong interest in acting and was inspired to become an actor at age 9 after she watched a theatre production of Porgy and Bess.
Doig dated actor Michael Shanks after they met on the set of Andromeda. They married on August 2, 2003, and they worked together again in the 2003 episode “Day of Judgment, Day of Wrath” of the same TV series. They have two children, a son and a daughter, in addition to Shanks’ child from a previous relationship.
Actor Information
- Born: June 8, 1973
- Age: 49 years old
- Gender Orientation:
Cisgender Woman - Sexual Orientation:
Heterosexual
Characters
There is 1 character listed for this actor; none are dead.
