Vaitiare Eugenia Hirshon (born August 15, 1964), previously known as Vaitiare Bandera and Vaitiare Hirshon-Asars, is an American actress best known for her appearances in ''

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''.

Career

Vaitiare was a spokesperson for Miller Beer from 1993 through to 1995. She has also done ads for McDonald's, Cox Communications,

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, Coors Dry, Caroche Jeans in Spain and

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in Tahiti. She starred in the Spanish-language telenovella ', which was seen in 45 countries. She also made guest appearances in '' Married... with Children'', ''Out of the Blue'' and ''

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''. She also had a role in the movie '' U.S. Marshals''. Vaitiare's best known role was in ''

'', where she guest starred in several episodes as Daniel Jackson's wife, Sha're. She originally auditioned for the role of Sha're in ''

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'', the 1994 film, but ultimately lost to Mili Avital. She was offered the role in the following television series ''Stargate SG-1'' after auditioning again for the same part.

Personal life

Vaitiare Hirshon was born in

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, French Polynesia and grew up in

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. She is of Tahitian, Cook Islander, English, French and German-Jewish descent. Her mother is related to the Royal House of Makea Karika

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in the Cook Islands. She is also related to Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis, who was the 4th prime minister of the Cook Islands. Her grandfather, Lewis Hirshon, was a stockbroker from New York. She has claimed that her grandfather's house in Tahiti was where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author,

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, wrote ''Return to Paradise''. In 1982 and 1990, she was a young model and girlfriend of

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, after which she married director Peter Bandera, from 1994 until their 1997 divorce. Following that, she had a relationship with

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, after meeting him while working together on ''Stargate SG-1'', in 1998. She and Shanks had a daughter together: Tatiana. This relationship ended in 2000. In 2004, she married Edgar Asars and had a son. They divorced in 2016. She currently lives in

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with her daughter and son. She ran three fashion companies. She's executive producer of the award-winning short film ''Far Away Places'', which her daughter wrote and directed at the age of 18, bringing awareness to child sex abuse.

Filmography

This is a partial listing of series/movies which this actress has been in. She is sometimes credited as Vaitiare Hirshon or Vaitiaré.

References

External links

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Vaitiare, Espectacular a Los 54 años
at Algente (in Spanish)
Vaitiare: "Miranda y yo podemos ser amigas"
at Vanity Fair España (in Spanish) * Originally published b
Titan Magazines
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