2007 American SF Media Guests
 

Jamie Bamber Jamie has worked steadily as an actor in TV, film and radio in Europe and the United States. His recent credits include Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers, Daniel Deronda for the BBC. In 2003, Bamber starred as Lee 'Apollo' Adama, a Captain in the Colonial Fleet, in Ron Moore's re-make Battlestar Galactica. This miniseries effectively served as pilot for a potential TV show. A TV series was commissioned in a collaborative effort between the Sci Fi Channel  and Sky TV. Battlestar Galactica is filmed mostly in Vancouver, British Columbia and as of 2007, is currently in its third season. In the role of Lee Adama, Bamber notably speaks with an American accent. He also has darkened hair, in an effort to more closely resemble Edward James Olmos, who plays his character's father.
Lexa Doig Lexa Doig is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Rommie in the science fiction TV series Andromeda. Doig had a small role on Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, but her first significant role was on William Shatner's series TekWar. Doig played "Cowgirl", a specialist in tracking and obtaining information from the net. Doig landed the role of Tina Backus on the short-lived series CI5: The New Professionals in 1998. In 2000 Doig was in another Roddenberry series, Andromeda. She portrayed the artificial intelligence of the title ship in dual roles - as seen on viewscreens or holograms, and a separate android avatar called Rommie. In 2001, Doig was the female lead in the horror film Jason X. Doig also appeared in several episodes for the ninth and tenth seasons of Stargate SG-1 in a recurring role as Dr. Carolyn Lam. She also has a recurring role as college professor Wendy Paulson in the second season of The 4400.
Aaron Douglas Aaron Douglas is a Canadian actor who portrays Chief Galen Tyrol in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, acting was not Douglas' first career, but he often helped friends prepare for auditions and went along to auditions to read opposite them, and found himself getting bit parts. After studying acting at Canada's famed William Davis Centre and performing with the Okanagan Shakespeare Company, Douglas has gone on to appear in such films as X2 and Final Destination 2; on such shows as Dark Angel, Smallville, Jeremiah, Black Sash, Stargate SG-1, The Outer Limits and the mini-series Steven Spielberg Presents Taken. He has also featured in such recent films as John Woo's Paycheck, the remake of Walking Tall, the Pitch Black sequel The Chronicles of Riddick and Alex Proyas' Isaac Asimov adaptation I, Robot.
Gigi Edgley Edgley's early TV and film work included several independent productions (with Anthony Simcoe), as well a guest star spot on the popular Australian series Water Rats and a role in Australian movie titled Day of the Roses. Edgley is best known for her role as Chiana on the cult science fiction TV series Farscape. Originally, she was hired for only one episode, and her character was supposed to die at the end of the hour. The creators decided to keep her around for a few more episodes. At the beginning of Season 2, she was promoted to be a regular on the show. She appeared in total of 68 episodes of the series. Her character's nickname (Pip) was actually coined by her co-star Ben Browder. In a moderated Scifi.com chat with the fans Edgley admitted it was her childhood nickname. She is currently appearing in the 2007 USA Network TV miniseries The Starter Wife as a minor supporting character.
David Franklin David Franklin is an Australian actor best known to audiences for his role as Meeklo Braca in the science fiction television series Farscape. He also played Brutus in Xena: Warrior Princess.  His film appearances include Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles and The Matrix Reloaded.
Dr. Kevin R. Grazier Grazier earned B.S. degrees in Computer Science and Geology from Purdue University, and a B.S. in Physics from Oakland University, as well as M.S. degrees in physics from Purdue and Geophysics and Space Physics from UCLA. He did his Ph.D. in Planetary Physics at UCLA. He currently works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn. In addition to that he is teaching classes in astronomy, planetary science and cosmology at UCLA and Santa Monica College, and is a planetarium lecturer at LA's Griffith Observatory. In addition to Battlestar Galactica, Grazier is also the science advisor for the PBS animated series The Zula Patrol and SciFi's Eureka.
Richard Hatch An American actor best known for his role of Captain Apollo on the original Battlestar Galactica movie and television series, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. He began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater. He starred off-Broadway in several plays and musicals and won the Obie Award for his work in PS Your Cat Is Dead in Chicago. He also has appeared in the American soap operas All My Children and Santa Barbara. He is currently in a recurring role as Tom Zarek in the second version of Battlestar Galactica. He is the co-author of seven Battlestar Galactica novels and wrote, co-directed and executive-produced a Battlestar Galactica trailer that won acclaim at science-fiction conventions. He produced the trailer to pressure Universal into creating a new series of Battlestar Galactica that would have been a direct continuation of the original series. Original actors John Colicos (Baltar) and Jack Stauffer (Bojay) appeared in the trailer along with Hatch himself. It is presumed that the actors would have appeared in the series itself. Hatch also believed that he could persuade Dirk Benedict to return and play Starbuck.
John de Lancie An American character actor. He is known for his recurring role as "Q" on the various Star Trek series, and as Frank Simmons in Stargate SG-1. De Lancie is best known as guest star on both the first and last episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation as the iconic all-powerful "Q". Along with Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Armin Shimerman, Michael Ansara and Richard Poe, he is one of only six actors to play the same character on three different Star Trek series. He played Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. De Lancie's son, Keegan de Lancie, appeared with his father as Q's son in Star Trek: Voyager's seventh season episode, "Q2". His other son, Owen de Lancie, appeared in "Star Trek World Tour" (1998). De Lancie co-starred in Star Trek writer Michael Piller's short-lived creation Legend as eccentric scientist Janos Bartok. He had a recurring role as NID Colonel Frank Simmons on Stargate SG-1. He has also appeared as Beka Valentine's Uncle Sid in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, as pollster Al Kiefer on The West Wing, and as an Elder on Charmed.
Kevin Sorbo An American actor gained noteriety when he landed the role of Hercules in several television films and then played the role regularly in the series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys from 1995 to 1999. He also guest-starred as Hercules in two episodes of the spin-off series Xena: The Warrior Princess and provided the voice of Hercules in a video game. After the cancellation of Hercules in 1999, he played the starring role of Captain Dylan Hunt in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda from 2000 to 2005. He also played the leading role in the film Kull the Conqueror (1996). He appeared in the direct-to-video film Walking Tall 2 which is a sequel to the 2004 film Walking Tall. He recently played a recurring role on the final season of The O.C and guest-starred in the sitcom Two and a Half Men. He is also set to reprises his role in the upcoming direct to video sequel to Walking Tall titled Walking Tall 3. Currently is starring in a new television series called Avenging Angel. Sorbo is the spokesman and chair of AWFFK! A World Fit For Kids!, a non-profit organization that trains teenagers to become mentors to younger children.
Lani Tupu Lani John Tupu is a New Zealand actor, best known for his portrayal of Bialar Crais on the hit TV series Farscape (he also provided the voice of the Pilot in that show; hence, he was featured in nearly every episode). He trained as a teacher at the Teachers’ Training College in Wellington, New Zealand, but had had a long interest in acting. He originally became well known in New Zealand as the lead, Dr Miller, in the prime-time soap Country GP (1984–5), which replaced a popular, long-running series, Close to Home. He remained on the show for two seasons, before shifting to Australia to continue his career there..