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Aleks PaunovicAlex FerrisAlex GreenAlex Hyde-WhiteAlex Zahara

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Aleks Paunovic is a Canadian actor and an ex-Canadian super heavyweight boxing champion who portrays Sergeant Omar Fischer in the Re-imagined Series and William Adama Sr. via flashbacks in the prequel series Caprica episode "The Dirteaters".

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Paunovic is 6'6" tall, and weighs approximately 265 pounds. His tremendous arms give him a three inch reach advantage on Lennox Lewis. Paunovic is the ex-Canadian super heavyweight boxing champion.

Paunovic is a good friend of Tahmoh Penikett. Penikett has let Paunovic punch him in the head a few times, which was purportedly a humbling experience.

Paunovic has also appeared in Stargate SG-1, Psych, Eureka, Hawkeye.

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Alex Ferris (born April 23, 1997) is a Canadian actor born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He portrayed John in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan. He subsequently earned a B.F.A. in Drama and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and has worked as an Adjunct Instructor in the Open Arts program at Tisch.

Career

Ferris began his professional acting career around the age of seven. His earliest credited work includes an uncredited appearance in the 2004 television film The Five People You Meet in Heaven. He accumulated his first recurring live-action television credit on Terminal City (2005), followed by a guest appearance as Andy Spencer on Stargate SG-1 that same year, and voiced Milkie the ice cream truck in the animated series Firehouse Tales from 2005 to 2006.

His first theatrical credit was the 2006 road comedy RV, in which he played Billy Gornicke alongside Robin Williams. Also in 2006, Ferris appeared in the superhero film X-Men: The Last Stand and the horror anthology series Masters of Horror, and began a recurring role as Wilson Mann-Peabody on the Showtime drama The L Word, which he continued through 2007. He also portrayed Young Sam Winchester in the Supernatural episode "Something Wicked" in 2006.

In 2007, Ferris played Victor Newton in the thriller The Invisible. This performance earned a nomination at the 29th Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor.

Beginning in 2008, Ferris voiced T.D. Kennelly in the first four seasons of the PBS Kids animated series Martha Speaks, which aired through 2014, Charlie Brown in Peanuts Motion Comics (2008–2010), and Paulie the Pliosaurus in the PBS Kids series Dinosaur Train. Also in 2008, Ferris appeared in two episodes of the CBC comedy-drama series jPod as Connor Lefkowitz.

In 2009, Ferris played Young Henry DeTamble — the childhood incarnation of Eric Bana's character — in the drama film The Time Traveler's Wife, a role for which he received a Young Artist Award nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor at the 31st Young Artist Awards. That same year, Ferris appeared as Young Davis Bloome in the Smallville episode "Eternal", and appeared as Young Henry in the horror series Harper's Island.

Ferris also won the 31st Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a TV Movie, Miniseries or Special – Supporting Young Actor for the 2009 film Living Out Loud.

Ferris was also cast as John in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009), the television film directed by Edward James Olmos and written by Jane Espenson. According to the home-video commentary, Olmos used a production still of Dean Stockwell from The Boy with Green Hair (1948) when auditioning actors for the role; he sought a strong physical resemblance to the young Stockwell, and Ferris's likeness to that image was a factor in his casting. Olmos had also intended for the character's hair to be dyed green in homage to the 1948 film, but this was overruled by the producers.

In 2010, Ferris played Collin Lee in the family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid and appeared in the fantasy comedy Tooth Fairy. The Diary of a Wimpy Kid cast shared a Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Young Ensemble Cast at the 32nd Young Artist Awards, and Ferris received an individual nomination in the Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor category for the same film.

In 2012, Ferris appeared as Jared in the Canadian home invasion thriller In Their Skin (also released as Replicas), directed by Jeremy Power Regimbal and co-starring Selma Blair and James D'Arcy. This role brought a nomination for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actor at the 34th Young Artist Awards.

Education and playwriting

Ferris earned a B.F.A. in Drama and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, completing the M.F.A. program in 2021. His M.F.A. thesis play, Pigeon Play, concerns a man named Milton who wakes one morning transformed into a pigeon and must adapt to his new existence from a fire escape outside his former apartment. Following his graduation, Ferris joined the Tisch faculty as an Adjunct Instructor in the Open Arts program, where he teaches the course Green World, focused on environmental issues for artists.

As a playwright, Ferris's short play I Killed Penelope Cruz: An Unproduced Screenplay was produced at the New York Theater Festival in February and March 2025, performed at the Hudson Guild Theatre in New York City.

Documentary work

Ferris has collaborated with documentary filmmaker Douglas Keeve — director of the 1995 fashion documentary Unzipped — on the in-progress documentary Polly, a biographical film about the late Vogue fashion editor Polly Mellen.

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Axel Green (credited as Alex Green) is a Chapleau, Ontario-born Canadian actor, producer, and film technician who portrays a deckhand in "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down". He is a full member of ACTRA and accumulated his acting credits during a Vancouver-based career in the early 2000s before transitioning to work as a Key Grip and film producer in Northern Ontario.

Career

Green grew up in Chapleau, Ontario, where he began performing as a gymnast and in school theatre productions. After relocating to London, Ontario, he attended H. B. Beal Secondary School, where he appeared in theatre and participated in a televised high school newscast. He subsequently enrolled in the theatre program at George Brown College in Toronto, writing and directing two plays during his studies. He then moved to Vancouver to complete the acting program at the Vancouver Film School.

In Vancouver, Green and colleague Steve Schmidt formed the production company Cooking with Bob Productions, through which they produced a music video for local musician Marnie Mains. Green secured speaking roles in several Vancouver-filmed television series, including John Doe, Romeo!, "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down" on Battlestar Galactica, Whistler, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Intelligence. He also appeared in the independent feature The Delicate Art of Parking (2003) and in the Hollywood productions Freddy vs. Jason (2003, credited as Alex Green) and Snakes on a Plane (2006). These credits fulfilled his requirements for full ACTRA membership.

In 2006, Green relocated to Austin, Texas, where he volunteered as an anchor at Longhorn Pulse, a television program at the University of Texas. He later returned to Vancouver, where he worked as a photo double, stand-in, and stunt driver for Jackie Earle Haley on Human Target (Season 1). In 2010, he produced the short film Dead Simple, shot in Vancouver; the film was selected as a finalist for the CTV Best in Shorts award at the Cinefest Sudbury festival and received an award of merit for cinematography.

In January 2012, Green produced, co-wrote, starred in, and served as first assistant director on the feature film The Road to Tophet, a Kharisma Pictures production shot in his hometown of Chapleau. The film, directed by Steve Schmidt and written by Green, Schmidt, and Jeremy Beal, starred Green alongside Adam Beach and Samuel Thivierge and was released in 2014. Schmidt described the project's origins in a 2019 account, noting that he and Green had long discussed filming a story set in Chapleau and that both were working in the Vancouver film industry when they began development.

Green subsequently worked as a Key Grip across productions in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto, and Northern Ontario, accumulating over a decade of experience in that capacity. He holds membership in IATSE Local 873/891, NABET 700, and AQTIS, and is a founding member of IATSE 634 Film. Among his Key Grip credits are The Witch (2015), The Silencing (2020), and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021). As of 2025, Green serves as the public relations and acquisitions manager at White Owl Film Studios, a production facility located on the Wahnapitae First Nation near Greater Sudbury, Ontario, where he advocates for expanding the Northern Ontario film industry.

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Alex Punch Hyde-White (born 30 January 1959) is a British-American actor, producer, and director known for his extensive work in film and television. Born in London to actor Wilfrid Hyde-White (Sire Anton), he portrayed Cadet Bow in "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I" and also appeared as an unnamed Warrior in "The Man with Nine Lives."

Early life

Hyde-White was born on 30 January 1959 in London. His parents were actor Wilfrid Hyde-White and Ethel M. Korenman, a stage manager who performed under the professional name Ethel Drew. Known by the nickname "Punch" among friends and colleagues, he relocated from England to the United States with his father following Wilfrid's role in Warner Brothers's 1963 film musical My Fair Lady. Hyde-White retained his dual citizenship throughout his career.

Hyde-White grew up in Palm Springs, California, where he attended Palm Springs High School and excelled in athletics, lettering in baseball, tennis, and golf. During his teen years, he joined his father in the theatrical production of The Jockey Club Stakes at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. At age 16, he attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., but left after one year to pursue an acting career.

Hyde-White has described his father Wilfrid as "mercurial, mischievous, challenging, but ultimately singularly special and rewarding." His relationship with his father would become a central theme in his 2012 documentary Three Days (of Hamlet).

Career

Universal Studios contract player

In 1978, at age 18, Hyde-White became one of the last "contract players" in Hollywood history when he signed with Universal Studios. This group of contract players also included Lindsay Wagner, Andrew Stevens, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gretchen Corbett, and Sharon Gless.

His first television role under the Universal contract was a single line—"leave my mother alone"—spoken to star Jack Klugman in the television series Quincy, M.E. He recurred in several episodes of Quincy, M.E., each time as a different character, and made numerous appearances in Battlestar Galactica and later Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which also featured his father Wilfrid in a recurring role as Doctor Goodfellow during the second season.

According to Hyde-White, his Battlestar Galactica casting came about when his father was appearing in the pilot and Universal was auditioning young actors to play Viper pilots. The studio conducted a screen test with father and son together using dialogue from one of Wilfrid Hyde-White's plays.

At age 23, Hyde-White made his Broadway debut.

Film and television work

Throughout the 1980s, Hyde-White worked extensively on Broadway and in England, where he obtained his first starring role in Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986). International productions followed, including Ishtar (1987) filmed in Morocco, Phantom of the Opera (1989) filmed in Budapest, and The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984) filmed in Greece. He worked on several UK television productions before returning to California in 1989 to work on the final season of Newhart as Scooter Drake.

Hyde-White's Hollywood film work includes notable appearances in several major productions. He worked with Steven Spielberg three times, and has expressed admiration for Spielberg's directorial approach, noting that he "intuits, he will allow the inspiration of the moment." His Spielberg collaborations include playing a younger version of Henry Jones Sr. (portrayed by Sean Connery) in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and as Dick Kesner, a divorce lawyer, in Catch Me If You Can (2002). He also portrayed David Morse, the polo-playing grandson of Ralph Bellamy's character, in the hit romantic comedy Pretty Woman (1990).

In the historical epic Gods and Generals (2003), Hyde-White portrayed Union Civil War General Ambrose P. Burnside.

Hyde-White has cited influential directors and actor-directors who shaped his approach to filmmaking, including Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, and Kevin Costner, whom he describes as "actors who created stories and used the technique and discipline of the film set to do this."

Marvel's Fantastic Four

In 1994, Hyde-White played Dr. Reed Richards (a.k.a. Mister Fantastic) in a low-budget motion picture adaptation of Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four. The film was produced by Roger Corman for German producer Bernd Eichinger to retain the film rights to the property before they expired.

Hyde-White was cast around Thanksgiving 1993, having previously worked on other Roger Corman films. He described his motivation for taking the role as occurring during "a bit of a life change" in his mid-30s, noting that his "natural approach" and "ability to handle the dialogue in that sort of slightly melodramatic Star Trek way" suited the material.

The film was never officially released theatrically. According to Hyde-White, although Corman believed in the film and was determined it be distributed, Eichinger ordered all promotions halted and the negative destroyed just before the film was to premiere at the Mall of America. However, bootleg copies circulated on VHS and eventually online, and the film has acquired its own cult following. Hyde-White is regarded by many comics fans as an excellent embodiment of the character.

More than 30 years after the 1994 production, Hyde-White and his co-stars Rebecca Staab, Jay Underwood, and Michael Bailey Smith were invited to make cameo appearances in Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). Hyde-White and Staab appear as television journalists, while Underwood and Smith play power plant workers rescued by the Human Torch. All four also appear in a newsreel sequence.

Reflecting on the experience following the First Steps premiere, Hyde-White stated: "I do, actually, believe in karma. Very rarely do you get a chance to wait 30 years to test that theory." The 1994 film has been the subject of the 2015 documentary Doomed!: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four and a 2019 book, Forsaken: The Making and Aftermath of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four, which is being adapted for Audible through Hyde-White's production company.

Production and directing work

Hyde-White founded his production company TMG, named after his mentor, Washington attorney Steven Martindale. Through TMG, he produced the 2002 independent romantic drama Pursuit of Happiness (unrelated to the Will Smith film of a similar name), which starred Frank Whaley, Annabeth Gish, Adam Baldwin, and featured Jean Stapleton in a cameo. The film was directed by John Putch.

Hyde-White directed and starred in Three Days (of Hamlet), produced by TMG and Ytinifni Pictures. The experimental first-person documentary follows a troupe of actors, including Peter Woodward, Richard Chamberlain, and Stefanie Powers, who gather for three days (July 1-3, 2010) to rehearse and perform a reading of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Matrix Theatre in West Hollywood.

Hyde-White has described the film's primary plot as "Actor, filmmaker Alex Hyde-White comes to terms with the legacy of his father and sets out to inspire his sons using a three day staged reading of Hamlet as the vehicle." The concept materialized following Christmas 2009 while drinking Schweppes Bitter Lemon (which he thanks in the film's closing credits), when three elements converged: he had just performed in a staged reading of It's a Wonderful Life in Santa Monica, was reading about actor John Barrymore's 1920s London production of Hamlet, and was writing about his experiences on Spielberg film sets.

The documentary merges theatrical production with behind-the-scenes reality television-style footage. Hyde-White described the Matrix Theatre as "a character in and of itself, an old building on Melrose full of memorabilia." The film captures candid moments and features individual interviews with each actor discussing significant three-day periods in their lives.

Three Days (of Hamlet) won Best Documentary at three festivals: International Family Film Festival (Hollywood, Spring 2012), L-Dub (Lake Worth, FL, Fall 2012), and Eugene International Film Festival (Oregon, Fall 2012). The film premiered at the Palm Beach Film Festival in April 2012 to positive reviews. Hyde-White has noted that director Alex Rotaru of Shakespeare High described Three Days (of Hamlet) as a "mise en abyme" film—a French term meaning "a dream within a dream" or "looking into a pool of infinite reflections."

Hyde-White also founded Punch Audio in 2012, a Hollywood-based audiobook production company that publishes through Audible. The company has produced over 650 audiobooks for independent authors, with affiliated studios across the United States including locations in New York City, Florida, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Boise, Idaho. The company specializes in helping authors who want to narrate their own work as well as providing experienced professional narrators. Artists at Punch Audio include British actor Ian Hart and actresses Mary Jane Wells, Liane Curtis, and Kate Huffman.

Recent work

Hyde-White has continued to work steadily in film and television, including guest appearances on shows such as Hill Street Blues and NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service. He appeared in Jordan Peele's science fiction horror film Nope (2022). Hyde-White has described himself as having "played big parts in small movies, and smaller parts in big films."

Personal life

Hyde-White was married to actress Karen Dotrice, best known for her role as Jane Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964), from 14 February 1986 until 1992. They have one son, Garrick Hyde-White. Hyde-White's former father-in-law, Roy Dotrice, was a renowned Shakespearean actor; both Hyde-White and Dotrice made guest appearances on Babylon 5.

On 25 June 1997, Hyde-White married Shelly Bovert Hyde-White, an assistant director and producer known for work on films including Convict 762 (1997) and Sworn to Justice (1996). They have one son, Jackson Conor Hyde-White.

Hyde-White resides in Southern California and works with children as a baseball coach and theater teacher. He has a sister, Juliet Hyde-White.

The only time Hyde-White and his father Wilfrid appeared on screen together was on The Merv Griffin Show in 1980. A clip from that appearance is featured in Hyde-White's documentary Three Days (of Hamlet).

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• Alex article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Alex Zahara is a Canadian actor best known for his prolific work in science fiction television. He played the character Valance in the Re-imagined Series episode "Colonial Day".

Born October 31, 1965, in Grande Prairie, Alberta, Zahara earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre (Acting) from the University of British Columbia following studies at the University of Alberta. A Vancouver-based performer with one of the most extensive genre filmographies of his generation, Zahara is particularly recognized in the science fiction community for portraying nine distinct characters on Stargate SG-1 — more than any other actor on the series — and for recurring roles in Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers, Jeremiah, and The Man in the High Castle.

Career

Early Training and Theatre

Zahara's interest in performance began in high school, when he directed a student adaptation of M*A*S*H at Grande Prairie Composite High School — a production that earned him a college scholarship and placement on the school's Wall of Honor. He traveled throughout Europe before deciding, while on a beach in Greece, to pursue film acting professionally.

Zahara established himself in Vancouver's theatre community, winning the 1998 Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Best Ensemble as part of Theatre Conspiracy's production of Mojo. He received additional Jessie Richardson nominations for Best Actor in The Promised Land and Marisol — the latter role requiring him to perform as all five male characters in the ensemble. He also earned a Leo Award nomination for Best Performance by a Male in a Short Drama for Evirati (2000).

Battlestar Galactica

Zahara appeared in the Re-imagined Series episode "Colonial Day" (Season 1, Episode 11). He portrayed Valance, a hired assassin contracted to eliminate President Laura Roslin on Cloud 9 involving the vice-presidential succession vote.

Stargate SG-1

Zahara's most extensive science fiction television work came on Stargate SG-1, where he portrayed nine distinct characters across multiple episodes between 1998 and 2003, holding the record for the most character roles played by a single actor on the series.

His roles included:

• Xe'ls in "Spirits" (Season 2, Episode 13, 1998) — a Salish chief and leader of entities known as spirits
• Michael Clark in "1969" (Season 2, Episode 21, 1999) — a human hippie, his only non-prosthetic role on the series
• Stragoth Leader and Stragoth 1 in "Foothold" (Season 3, Episode 14, 2000) — two distinct members of the squid-faced alien species infiltrating Stargate Command
• Shy One and Unas 1 in "Beast of Burden" (Season 4, Episode 8, 2000) — multiple characters in an episode requiring extensive costume and makeup work
• Eggar in "Metamorphosis" (Season 6, Episode 11, 2002)
• Kor Asek (also credited as "Iron Shirt") in "Enemy Mine" (Season 7, Episode 7, 2003)
• Warrick Finn in "Space Race" (Season 7, Episode 8, 2003) — taking over a recurring role previously played by Dion Johnstone

In a 2006 GateWorld interview, Zahara credited Stargate SG-1 as instrumental to his career development, stating that the show "basically helped me get my career started." He expressed particular appreciation for directors Peter DeLuise and Martin Wood, noting that their collaborative approach to long production days (often 16–18 hours in prosthetics and makeup) created a supportive environment.

Other Science Fiction and Television

Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers

Zahara played Dulann, a Minbari telepath and first officer (Shok-nali) of the starship Liandra, in Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers — J. Michael Straczynski's television pilot "To Live and Die in Starlight" (January 19, 2002, Sci Fi Channel), directed by Michael Vejar. The pilot was the second-billed role, after lead Dylan Neal, and positioned Zahara opposite Andreas Katsulas (reprising his Babylon 5 role of G'Kar). Although intended as a series launch, the pilot underperformed in ratings and was not picked up for a full series.

Jeremiah

Zahara appeared as Ezekiel, a mysterious and prophetic protector who delivers cryptic warnings to the protagonist, in six episodes of Showtime's Jeremiah (2002–2004), another J. Michael Straczynski creation. The role spanned Season 1 in 2002.

The Man in the High Castle

Zahara played Oberführer Oliver Diels, an SS officer in the German occupation government, in a recurring role across multiple seasons of Amazon's The Man in the High Castle (2015–2018).

Additional Film and Television

Zahara's genre and mainstream credits include:

• The 13th Warrior (1999) — Norseman, opposite Antonio Banderas and Omar Sharif; directed by John McTiernan; his theatrical film debut
• The Outer Limits — "Tribunal" (1999, S2E19) as SS Officer Karl Rademacher in an episode involving a Holocaust survivor; Zahara has identified this as one of his proudest roles
• Dark Angel (Fox, 2001) — Johanssen in two episodes ("Red," S2E11, and "Rising," S2E12), portraying a South African Manticore X-series operative
• Open Range (2003) — Chet, a gunfighter opposite Kevin Costner, Robert Duvall, and Annette Bening
• Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers
• Andromeda, The Immortal, Welcome to Paradox, First Wave, Smallville, Supernatural, Fringe, Psych, The Dead Zone, Kingdom Hospital, Tru Calling, Cold Squad, Blood Ties
• Masters of Horror — Detective Patterson in "Deer Woman" (S1E7, December 9, 2005, Showtime), directed by John Landis
• Masters of Science Fiction — "Bucky" in "The Discarded" (S1E4, August 25, 2007), directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Harlan Ellison, opposite Brian Dennehy and John Hurt
• Riverworld (Syfy miniseries, 2010) — Ludwig Dürr, the Hindenburg engineer
• 2012 (2009, Roland Emmerich) — a naval officer on the Ark
• Hell on Wheels (AMC) — Lt. Weston, recurring across two Season 2 episodes
• Once Upon a Time (ABC) — King Midas in "The Shepherd" (S1E6, December 4, 2011) and later appearances in Season 4
• Arrow (The CW) — drug lord Anthony Venza
• Horns (2013) — Dr. Renald, opposite Daniel Radcliffe
• Lonesome Dove Church (2014) — antagonist Butch Henley, opposite Tom Berenger
• The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016) — Eduardo Navarra, opposite Jamie Dornan
• The Assignment (2016) — opposite Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver, directed by Walter Hill
• Brain on Fire (2016) — stepfather to Chloë Grace Moretz's character
• Riverdale (The CW, 2017–2020) — Uncle Bedford Blossom, recurring across three seasons
• Final Destination Bloodlines (2025) — Uncle Howard Campbell, head of the Campbell family; Zahara appeared in the franchise's highest-grossing entry to date

Voice Acting

Zahara is a prolific voice actor in Vancouver-based anime dubbing, animation, and video game production. His voice acting roles include:

• Lockon Stratos (Neil and Lyle Dylandy) in Mobile Suit Gundam 00
• Shinsuke Takasugi in Gintama°
• Karnak in Marvel Knights: Inhumans
• Nick Logan in Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths & Legends (40 episodes)
• Dr. Peter Corbeau in Iron Man: Armored Adventures
• Vic Hoskins (reprising Vincent D'Onofrio's character) in LEGO Jurassic World: The Secret Exhibit and LEGO Jurassic World: Legend of Isla Nublar
• Alpha Sentinel in ReBoot: The Guardian Code
• Jack Pot in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic ("Grannies Gone Wild")
• Tar Gibbons in Aliens Stole My Body (2020, with William Shatner)
• Johann Schmidt in LEGO Marvel Avengers: Climate Conundrum

Video game credits include voice acting for Dead Rising 2, Dead Rising 4, Thimbleweed Park, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3, JETT: The Far Shore, and Homeworld 3.

Producing and Directing

Beyond acting, Zahara has worked as a director and producer. He directed and co-produced the short film Not Indian Enough, which screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and co-produced, cast, and acted in the independent feature Patterson's Wager (2015–2016), directed by O. Corbin Saleken. The latter has won several festival awards, including Best Feature at the Spokane International Film Festival. Zahara has also worked as a read-through reader on television productions including The Good Doctor, Riverdale, Supergirl, Sabrina, A Million Little Things, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Timeless.

Teaching

Zahara has taught acting at multiple institutions. He taught "Acting for Teens" at Vancouver Film School and currently serves on the faculty of Vancouver Acting School, where he teaches performance classes.

Personal Life

Zahara is married to a woman named Shannon. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

He is an active attendee at fan conventions related to his work, including Stargate fan events (Creation's "Final Journey" in Chicago, Chevron 8.1 in London in April 2014, Gatecon 2018 in Richmond, B.C.) and Once Upon a Time conventions. Zahara has served as a jury member at the Reel Shorts Film Festival in his hometown of Grande Prairie.

Online Presence

Zahara maintains an official website at http://www.alexzahara.com/ and is active on social media as @ActorAlexZahara on X (Twitter), @alex.zahara on Instagram, and on Facebook as facebook.com/actoralexzahara.

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Lieutenant Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo (a.k.a. "Crash") is the Raptor ECO who replaces Karl "Helo" Agathon ^(TRS: "33") after Sharon Valerii reluctantly leaves Agathon behind on Cylon-occupied Caprica at his request ^{(TRS: "Miniseries")}.

A survivor of the crew of the battlestar Triton, Quartararo aids in the discovery of a fresh water source for the Fleet ^{(TRS: "Water")}, a Cylon-held tylium mine ^{(TRS: "The Hand of God")}, and the planet Kobol ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I")}.

Despite Valerii's initial misgivings of him, Quartararo is a loyal officer. His actions include the defense of Valerii to Sergeant Hadrian prior to Valerii's being taken away for questioning ^{(TRS: "Litmus")}.

Quartararo is also the object of Ensign Davis' affections ^{(TRS: "The Hand of God" and "Colonial Day")}, and claims to have known a "lady friend" named Kimiko prior to the Fall of the Twelve Colonies ^{(TRS: "Water")}.

Events on Kobol

After Valerii attempts suicide, Quartararo accompanies a mission to investigate Kobol, which meets with disastrous results. A Cylon basestar and Cylon Raiders had already taken position above the planet, causing the destruction of one Raptor, the retreat of another and damage to Quartararo's Raptor. He pilots Raptor 1 after his pilot is killed, crash-landing on Kobol near the ruins of the Opera House ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part I")}.

Quartararo at work, still wearing a battlestar Triton patch ^(TRS: "33")

When sonic booms are heard, presumably coming from a Cylon ship, Quartararo leads the team away from a likely approach by Cylon Centurions. However, he hurries his team excessively to the point where they abandon most of their critical survival supplies, leaving Socinus, critically injured in the Raptor crash, without needed medicine. Quartararo orders Tarn, Galen Tyrol and Cally Henderson to return to the crash site to retrieve the needed medicine. This ill-advised move results in Tarn's death from Centurion gunfire, and later the death of Socinus, as the retrieved medicine could not treat his injuries in time. All that the medic kit could do is euthanize Socinus with a morpha overdose in lieu of suffering an agonizing death ^{(TRS: "Valley of Darkness")}.

Quartararo's inexperience reemerges again as he attempts to organize his team through textbook field exercises to destroy a missile battery that several Centurions have constructed from the remains of their Heavy Raider to destroy any colonial SAR parties. The parameters of the operation change when the Centurions shift their deployment, providing greater Cylon defense at the missile launcher, and when the DRADIS guidance dish is left relatively unprotected. Quartararo assigns Henderson the likely-suicidal task of creating a diversion while the remaining team try to destroy the missile battery.

Although Galen Tyrol insists that destroying the missiles' DRADIS guidance dish would accomplish their mission and prevent the shooting down of the SAR operation, Quartararo's inexperience and by-the-book insistence on following his original plan blinds him to alternatives that would greatly increase his team's survival chances.

As the SAR Raptor's sonic booms announces their imminent arrival, Quartararo hastily orders Henderson to begin the operation, but she is frozen in fear and refuses to move. Becoming increasingly irritated and irrational, Quartararo aims his sidearm at Henderson's head and threatens to kill her if she does not follow orders. Chief Tyrol aims his sidearm at Quartararo, asking him to stand down while Quartararo counts to three in a final effort to move Henderson along.

Before the countdown ends, Gaius Baltar shoots Quartararo in the back, likely severing his spinal cord or piercing his heart, killing him instantly.

After their rescue by the SAR team, both Baltar and Tyrol lie to Captain Lee "Apollo" Adama, claiming that Quartararo died a hero in battle ^{(TRS: "Fragged")}.

Lt. Margaret "Racetrack" Edmondson succeeds Quartararo as Valerii's ECO for her mission to destroy the basestar over Kobol ^{(TRS: "Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II")}.

Behind the Scenes

Actor Samuel Witwer was cast as Crashdown after watching the Miniseries and knowing he "really wanted to work on the first season."

Notes

• Before Pegasus arrives later in season 2, Quartararo is the only confirmed survivor from another battlestar in the Re-imagined Series.
• Crashdown is possibly named for the "Crashdown Café" from Ron Moore's previous series, Roswell, which dealt with supposed alien survivors of the crash.
• According to actor Samuel Witwer, executive producer David Eick described Crashdown to him as "a cross between Han Solo and Bill Paxton’s character, Hudson, in Aliens — the “Game over, man” guy! And that’s sort of what I endeavored to bring to the role."
• His real name was never stated on screen, but confirmed to be Alex Quartararo by Bradley Thompson. The name also appears on a playing card in the Battlestar Galactica Collectable Card Game, and is derived from the character's dog tags.

Musical Representation

Bear McCreary used the electric sitar, performed by Steve Bartek, to represent Crashdown's descent into madness during the Kobol episodes. The electric sitar had been featured most prominently in Battlestar Galactica during McCreary's arrangement of "All Along the Watchtower," but the instrument was first used extensively in the first half of season two specifically to represent Quartararo's mental deterioration as he went "full Colonel Kurtz" on Kobol.

Years later, when scoring Blood and Chrome, McCreary employed the same electric sitar technique to represent the unstable soldier Toth, creating a subtle subconscious connection between the two characters who both suffered psychological breakdowns in stressful combat situations.

References

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Alex Singh is the executive officer of Colonial Fleet's battlestar Galactica during the First Cylon War.

The youngest of five brothers, Singh is the only one of his Tauron family to serve in the military (Battlestar Galactica Deadlock).

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Captain Alexa "Pugnacious" Cain is Galactica's CAG after the Cylon War, as well as during the time Lieutenant William Adama is stationed aboard the battlestar (Battlestar Galactica: Origins 5).

Cain is a career military woman who divorced her husband well before the Battle of Tauron, with whom she had two daughters, Helena and Lucy Cain. The divorce occurs as a result of her unwillingness to give up flying Vipers.

In the days following the end of the war, Cain is assigned to Galactica as CAG when the ship is ordered to hunt for a rogue Cylon cell called the Annihilators. During her tenure, she proceeds to push Adama and the pilots under her command to their limits, but earns their respect, particularly in Adama's case. She takes a special interest in Adama, as he becomes her right hand man and both become friends who often spar against one another through pyramid.

On a mission to hunt down the remaining Annihilators at Trinity Base, Galactica is boarded by Annihilators en route to that base, where the Cylons manage to decompress the ship and begin turning Galactica's weapons towards the battlestars accompanying her: Ulysses and Cerberus. A nuclear missile is fired before Cain, Adama, and a team of surviving crew members in EVA suits are able to remove the Annihilators from Aft Damage Control. However, in the process of securing it, Cain is stabbed through the chest by a Centurion, mortally wounding her.

As part of his promise, Adama delivers two letters that Cain had written to her only surviving child, Helena, and to Cain's own parents, who had apparently survived (Battlestar Galactica: Origins 5, Battlestar Galactica: Origins 6).

Notes

• In "Razor," Helena Cain's mother is named Saundra Cain and dies on Tauron during the final minutes of the Battle of Tauron.
• Cain's callsign, Pugnacious, is a term for someone who is eager or quick to argue, quarrel or fight, which aptly describe this character.

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Alexei is a warden on board Icarus in 7360.

Alexei is stationed in the prison wing overseeing Gar'Tokk and other prisoners, and is subsequently killed by Iblis in a disembodied form. Iblis speaks through Alexei to Gar'Tokk, and uses Alexei's rapidly decaying body to free the Borellian Nomen (RH: Armageddon).

References

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Alexander Chen is the leader of Ghost Squadron, stationed on Mercury class battlestar Therion. He is described as a "stoic kind of guy that inspires complete and total loyalty from his pilots, and he’s also the first to jump in the thick of things during combat" (Battlestar Galactica: Ghosts 1).

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Jim Alexander (September 3, 1930 — August 19, 2019) was an American sound engineer. He has been credited with sound effects of the original Battlestar Galactica. He is known for his sound work in the TV series, Magnum, P.I., and the feature film, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Alexander likely worked in tandem with veteran Battlestar sound effects editor Peter Berkos.

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Newell Alexander (born November 20, 1935) is an American actor who portrayed Elias in "Murder on the Rising Star," an episode of the Original Series.

Born in Borger, Texas, Alexander has guest starred in various television series, including Big Love, Alias, Arrested Development, Quantum Leap (with Dean Stockwell), and Dynasty.

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