In the meantime, I just have to create those realistic goals about the fact that I don't have a ton of options as an actor who's been on a science fiction show for 8 years.

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.