I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.

In 2011 Shanks was the guest star in the third episode of the Showcase show Endgame where he plays an amnesiac. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. Yolland
Hopscotch – Will Frederick Wood Theatre
The Lion in Winter – Unknown Western Canada Theatre Company.

Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15 1970) is a Canadian actor who achieved international fame for his role as Dr.