Aaron Douglas (born August 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as
Galen Tyrol
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on the
Sci-Fi Channel's television program ''
Battlestar Galactica
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''.
Douglas headlined on the
CTV drama ''
The Bridge'', which was also picked up by
CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas played Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, which began production in May 2009
but the series was dropped after just three episodes had been aired.
Douglas starred alongside fellow ''Battlestar Galactica'' actor
Paul Campbell in a Syfy original movie, ''Killer Mountain'', which premiered August 27, 2011.
Early life
Aaron Douglas was born in
New Westminster
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, a city in the
Lower Mainland
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on the
South Coast of
British Columbia
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. His father Michael Douglas is a professor and his mother Arlene Elliot is a psychologist. He has a brother Chris who is four years his junior. The family lived in Vancouver until Douglas was 10 at which time they moved to Creston in the interior of British Columbia where he attended
Prince Charles Secondary School as a teenager and acted in school productions, played in a rock band and participated in community theater. At age 26, he quit his job and moved back to
Vancouver
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to pursue a career in acting. He studied at Canada's famed William Davis Centre for Actors Study at
VanArts.
After completing the program at VanArts, Douglas performed with the Okanagan Shakespeare Company in Canada.
Many of his early acting jobs were the result of his work as a "reader" for auditions. His job was to read the other side of the dialogue for the person auditioning for a role. Often, after the audition was finished, the director would turn to him and say something like, "You know that cop role with three lines, do you want to do it?", he began building his resume off those small parts.
["Aaron Douglas – Chief Galen Tyrol, Battlestar Galactica"]
by Michael Flett at geekchocolate.co.uk
Personal life
On November 1, 2004, Douglas' wife Debbie died from breast cancer.
[ He has a son, Taylor, from a previous relationship, born in 1996.]Vancouver Canucks
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fan and can usually be found at home games screaming at the referees along with friends and fellow Sci-Fi Channel alums Daniel Bacon, Dan Payne, and Ryan Robbins.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
Awards and nominations
At the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards Douglas was nominated for Best TV Series Dramatic Guest Performance for his role in the TV series '' Flashpoint'', episode: "Day Game"."Awards season finds some B.C. players away from home"
by Glen Schaefer at edmontonjournal.com
References
External links
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1971 births
20th-century Canadian male actors
21st-century Canadian male actors
Canadian male film actors
Canadian male television actors
Canadian male voice actors
Living people
Male actors from British Columbia
People from New Westminster