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Bennett
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Portrays:	Number Five
Date of Birth:	April 09, 1968
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Age:	58
Nationality:	CAN
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Matthew Bennett is best-known to TV audiences as Detective Len Harper on the hit Canadian police series "Cold Squad" — for which he is currently Gemini-nominated for "Best Actor in a Continuing Dramatic Role". He also recently appeared in an episode of Flashpoint, another Canadian police series where he portrayed narcotics officer Detective Naismith.

Biographical Notes

Matthew Ray Bennett was born in Toronto on April 9, 1968. He moved to Vancouver at age 20 to pursue acting, and after two years of theater school there and four more appearing on such series as The X-Files and The Commish and such telefilms as A Killer Among Friends, Anything for Love and Relentless: Mind of a Killer, he returned to his hometown where he become one of the industry's busiest actors.

Bennett, who currently plays Steward Harrison on the USA Network's hit series Peacemakers, starred as James Calley, head of a special police internal-affairs unit, on the Showtime (and Canadian ON TV) series Total Recall: 2070, as well as in the 1998 telefilm of that name. He has guested on such series as UC: Undercover, Seven Days, Due South, the Canadian hit Da Vinci's Inquest and the SciFi Channel series Stargate SG-1 ("Point of No Return," "Ethon"). His films include Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog, Pushing Tin, Ignition and Stealing Sinatra.

Bennett is married to "his best friend," actress Brittaney Bennett (formerly billed as Brittaney Edgell), who has appeared on such SF series as Highlander, Forever Knight and Earth: Final Conflict.

On Battlestar Galactica

Bennett was cast as the humanoid Cylon Aaron Doral after initially auditioning for the role of Dr. Gaius Baltar. Much like his co-star Tricia Helfer, Bennett doesn’t view his Cylon alter ego as a villainous character. “Aaron Doral is doing the right thing as far as he’s concerned,” he explains. “He certainly doesn’t view himself as a bad guy. He can seem cold and creepy and calculated at times, but he’s simply on a mission to do what he thinks is right.”

A fan of the Original Series as a child, Bennett was excited to be cast in the remake and to work with director Michael Rymer. Reflecting on the first season, he stated, “I didn’t get to do as much as I would have liked on season one, but I enjoyed every day I worked on the show, and I feel the show itself is just fantastic. They’re exploring some incredible ideas.”

External links

• Matthew Bennett official website
• Matthew Bennett GALACTICA.TV interview and follow up interview

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Portrays:	Marcie Brasko
Date of Birth:	August 24, 1980
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Age:	45
Nationality:	CAN
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Sonja Bennett (born August 24, 1980) is a Canadian actress and screenwriter who portrayed Marcie Brasko in "Revelations", "Sometimes a Great Notion", and "Someone to Watch Over Me".

Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Bennett is the daughter of writer-director Guy Bennett and Anna Hart. She was raised primarily by her mother in Maple Ridge, British Columbia, and is a graduate of Garibaldi Secondary School there. She attended the University of British Columbia for two years on an academic scholarship before completing her actor training at the Studio 58 conservatory at Langara College in Vancouver. During her final year at Studio 58, a course requiring students to write and perform their own solo show gave her her first experience writing for herself — an interest she described as formative to her later screenwriting career.

Career

Bennett made her feature film debut in the lead role of Ariel in Punch (2002), written and directed by her father, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Her performance earned her the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress in a Canadian Film and a Women in Film and Video Artistic Merit Award Special Citation. Following the film's release she was approached by Fox Television, and subsequently secured series lead roles in Cold Squad (CTV, 2004–05, as Detective Samantha Waters) and Godiva's (Bravo!/CityTV, 2005–06, as pastry chef Daisy), both of which earned her Leo Award and Gemini Award nominations.

Her feature film credits during this period include My Life Without Me (2003), Where the Truth Lies (2005, directed by Atom Egoyan), The Fog (2005), Fido (2006, with Billy Connolly and Tim Blake Nelson), Young People Fucking (2007, which earned her the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film), and Elegy (2008, directed by Isabel Coixet, alongside Ben Kingsley and Penélope Cruz).

Her television guest appearances span numerous Vancouver-filmed genre productions, including The Dead Zone (USA Network), Painkiller Jane (2007, as Stacey), Stargate Atlantis (2006, as Dahlia Radim), Blade: The Series (New Line, 2006, as Vanessa, three episodes), Eureka (Syfy, 2007, as Callie Curie, three episodes), and Supernatural (two appearances: "Croatoan" in 2006 as nurse Pamela Clayton, and "Don't Call Me Shurley" in 2016 as Deputy Jan Harris).

In 2010, Bennett transitioned into screenwriting. Her debut produced screenplay was Preggoland (2014, directed by Jacob Tierney), in which she also starred alongside James Caan and Danny Trejo. The film premiered as a Special Presentation at the Toronto International Film Festival, won the Most Popular Canadian Film Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and won Best Screenplay at the Fargo Film Festival. Following the film's release, she chose to pursue television writing rather than capitalize on the film's profile in Los Angeles, a decision she described as a conscious shift in the shape of her career ambitions. Encouraged to move from features into television by Vancouver writer Robert Chomiak, she broke into the medium as a story editor on Kim's Convenience. Her television writing credits include Kim's Convenience (CBC, 2016, Leo Award winner for Best Screenwriting in a Comedy), Letterkenny (Crave/Hulu, multiple seasons 2018–2024, Leo Award winner for Best Screenwriting in a Comedy in 2019, 2021, and 2024, and Writers Guild of Canada Award nominee in 2019), and Family Law (Global, 2021–present, as a co-executive producer and writer, Leo Award winner for Best Screenwriting in a Dramatic Series in 2023). She has also co-written the comedic stage play Motherload (premiered at The Cultch, Vancouver, 2015) and authored the East Van Panto productions Alice in Wonderland (2021) and The Little Mermaid (2022) for Theatre Replacement and The Cultch.

Personal life

Bennett is the daughter of director Guy Bennett and Anna Hart; her parents separated when she was an infant. She was previously married to Canadian actor Stephen Lobo, with whom she has two children. The two first worked together as series regulars on Godiva's (2005–06), in which Lobo played head chef Ramir across all nineteen episodes alongside Bennett's Daisy. They subsequently appeared together in the Canadian independent film In No Particular Order (2012). Lobo also served as an editor on Preggoland (2014).

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Portrays:	Lucinda Cain
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Bennett Cousins is the actress who voices Lucinda Cain in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock.

Sherry Bennett

Sherry Bennett was one of Gaius Baltar's previous sexual conquests, presumably hailing from Aerilon. When asked about the first woman, excluding his mother, he ever lied to by his Internal Six, Baltar tells her that it was Bennett.

When both Bennett and Baltar were in fourth grade of elementary school, they played a game of "If you show me yours, I'll show you mine" behind the background in the band room of their school. She showed hers, whereas he did not.

He believes he may have slept with her, "many years later, of course". According to Baltar, she turned out to be a "very beautiful" woman ^{(TRS: "Water")}.

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