Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tapping
Amanda Tappingis an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian–American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. She also starred as Helen Magnus in the science fiction-fantasy television series Sanctuary...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth28 August 1965
CityRochford, England
CountryCanada
along comedy lines sketch television time women
Comedy is really my passion. I started out way before television doing sketch comedy with other women. Very much along the lines of, at the time it was 'Sensible Footwear', but now it's 'Smack The Pony', 'French And Saunders', that kind of thing. That's how I started out.
goofy rarely since women
Ever since I started doing television, I tended to get cast, for the most part, as these strong, intelligent women... Which is wonderful, but very rarely do I get to be the goofy girl that I am.
crawling love
I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.
passion way conviction
Don't let anyone tell you no. Do it with conviction, do it with passion, and you'll find a way