Amanda Tapping (born 28 August 1965 in Rochford, Essex) is an English-born Canadian actress, producer and director. She is best known for portraying Samantha Carter in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
Release Date1997-07-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Samantha Carter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1665
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers. He taught them about the paranormal evil that lives in the dark corners and on the back roads of America ... and he taught them how to kill it. Now, the Winchester brothers crisscross the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, battling every kind of supernatural threat they encounter along the way.
Release Date2005-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Naomi
Episode Count4
Vote Count7882
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
Release Date1993-09-10
Charactersd Carina Sayles
Episode Count1
Vote Count3269
With the Ancients' city of Atlantis discovered in the Pegasus Galaxy by Stargate Command, Dr. Elizabeth Weir and Major Sheppard lead a scientific expedition to the ancient abandoned city. Once there, the team not only find themselves unable to contact Earth, but their explorations unexpectedly reawaken the Ancients' deadly enemies, The Wraith, who hunger for this new prey. Now with the help of newfound local allies like Teyla Emmagan, the Atlantis Team sets about to uncover their new home's secrets even as their war of survival against the Wraith begins.
Release Date2004-07-15
Charactersd Samantha Carter
Episode Count25
Vote Count1083
Anything can turn spooky in this horror anthology series based on the best-selling books by master of kid horror, R.L. Stine. In every episode, see what happens when regular kids find themselves in scary situations, and how they work to confront and overcome their fears.
Release Date1995-10-27
Charactersd Mrs. Merton
Episode Count1
Vote Count598
Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s urban America.
Release Date1993-01-27
Charactersd McIllroy's Girlfriend
Episode Count1
Vote Count54
The adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way Galaxy. They evacuated there and are now trying to figure out a way to return to Earth, while simultaneously trying to explore and to survive in their unknown area of the universe.
Release Date2009-10-02
Charactersd Samantha Carter
Episode Count3
Vote Count727
Hundreds of years from now, the last surviving humans discover the means of sending consciousness back through time, directly into people in the 21st century. These "travelers" assume the lives of seemingly random people, while secretly working as teams to perform missions in order to save humanity from a terrible future.
Release Date2016-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Dr. Perrow
Episode Count7
Vote Count780
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
Release Date1994-09-22
Charactersd Audrey McKenna
Episode Count1
Vote Count75
The adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus, a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population called Abnormals—a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence.
Release Date2008-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Charactersd Dr. Helen Magnus
Episode Count3
Vote Count272
A team of Vancouver investigators, led by homicide detective Angie Flynn, sets out to uncover the motive of each puzzling murder by discovering the killer's connection to the victim. Viewers get a glimpse of the killer before and after the crime is committed.
Release Date2013-02-03
Charactersd Dr. Kate Robbins
Episode Count1
Vote Count85
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system of planets on the brink of revolution.
Release Date2015-06-19
Charactersd Dr. Jaeger
Episode Count1
Vote Count494
Riese: Kingdom Falling is a science fiction-fantasy series which debuted online on November 2, 2009. The series is about a traveller named Riese, who flees across the wartorn lands of Eleysia with her wolf, Fenrir. Hunted by a terrifying religious group, The Sect, Riese must evade the assassins that have been sent to kill her and discover their true objective.
Release Date2009-11-02
Charactersd narrator
Episode Count10
Vote Count16
Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.
Release Date1995-03-26
Charactersd Cmdr. Kate Girard
Episode Count1
Vote Count217
A reckless young man is destined to become the greatest sorcerer the mystical land of Earthsea has ever known.
Release Date2004-12-13
Charactersd Lady Elfarren
Episode Count1
Vote Count89
After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.
Release Date2024-11-01
Charactersd MEL
Vote Count61
A reporter Lanie Kerrigan interviews a psychic homeless man for a fluff piece about a football game's score. Instead he tells her that her life has no meaning and is going to end in just a few days, which sparks her to action, trying to change the pattern of her life...
Release Date2002-04-24
Charactersd Carrie Maddox
Vote Count553
SG-1 searches for an ancient weapon which could help them defeat the Ori, and discover it may be in the Ori's own home galaxy. As the Ori prepare to send ships through to the Milky Way to attack Earth, SG-1 travels to the Ori galaxy aboard the Odyssey. The International Oversight committee have their own plans and SG-1 finds themselves in a distant galaxy fighting two powerful enemies.
Release Date2008-03-11
Charactersd Lt. Col. Samantha Carter
Vote Count528
Ba'al travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from being started. SG-1 must somehow restore history.
Release Date2008-07-29
Charactersd Colonel Samantha Carter
Vote Count536
A look at the lives of two best friends and neighbors since birth, Tucker and Rebecca, and their respective adventures as they travel through the world of eighth grade.
Release Date1995-12-14
Charactersd Miss Yansouni
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.
Release Date2009-07-21
Charactersd Captain Samantha Carter
Vote Count78
An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
Release Date2014-04-18
Charactersd Nate's Mom
Vote Count168
Four low-ranking astronauts are stuck together on an orbital Sanitation Station after they bring a mysterious device aboard their ship and all life on Earth disappears. Little do they know they are about to come under attack by a mutating rubber duck named Gary, who wants to open a portal to his evil dimension and take over the Universe.
Release Date2012-10-26
Charactersd Valentina
Vote Count49
Harry Habert, owner of a rental company, has an original idea—to rent baby's from a nearby orphanage to local families. He rents the Ward siblings, 2 boys and a girl, to his first customers.
Release Date1995-01-01
Charactersd Mrs. Nicely
Vote Count68
A man on a mountain vacation with two friends goes home with a woman he's never met. He wakes up to find that one of his kidneys has been surgically removed. He spends the rest of the film trying to find out who did it.
Release Date1995-09-19
Charactersd Cassie
Vote Count5
Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price, Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet
Release Date2001-01-01
Charactersd Prof. Eva Soderstrom
Vote Count13
After a fight with her boyfriend, a woman unknowingly accepts a ride from a psychopath.
Release Date2000-10-20
Charactersd Waitress
Vote Count9
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Release Date2012-08-24
Charactersd Susan
Vote Count41
The story of the NHL in the 1950's, focusing on the battle between the players, led by Hall of Famer Ted Lindsay, and the owners, over issues of benefits and pensions. A dramatization based on the true story from the book of the same title.
Release Date1995-01-01
Charactersd Colleen Howe
Vote Count5
A precocious youngster's visions of a mysterious woman and a series of child murders leads her mom to seek help from the authorities.
Release Date1996-04-10
Charactersd Gina / Angel
Vote Count3
On an island in the Pacific Northwest, a junkie photojournalist's disturbing future is revealed to him through the images he shoots.
Release Date2018-11-30
Charactersd Donna
Vote Count14
Abby Lord (Maria del Mar) is kidnapped and her husband Robert Lord (Joe Lando) has to pay off a million dollar ransom. Based on a True Life story.
Release Date2006-04-24
Charactersd Detective Burns
Vote Count7
In this documentary, Amanda Tapping, known as Samantha Carter from SG-1, shows the scientific background of the successful science fiction series "Stargate SG-1" and lets us take a look behind the scenes.
Release Date2006-01-03
Charactersd Narrator
Vote Count20
Random Acts of Romance is a feature comedy about intense characters in extreme relationship situations — and the crazy and obsessive behaviors that spring from this thing called love. The story is paced like an emotional roller coaster, punctuated by moments of uncomfortably illuminating hilarity as characters confront situations we all identify with.
Release Date2012-10-05
Charactersd Diane
Martha (Katie Boland), 18, sees the world as animated and fun. She has a form of autism that means she is a mathematical genuis whilst incapable of looking after herself. Living in a dull routinewith her cousin Nicole (Brooke Burns), and mother Josephine (Amanda Tapping), she sees the good in everything and everyone. But suddenly, her mother is the casualty of a brutal crime before her eyes and Martha is sent to a foster home. Nicole is distraught and battle for custody of her cousin, but the police constantly block her requests. Finally, Detective Velez relents, on one condition: Martha must help solve the crime and find justice for her fallen mother.
Release Date2009-01-01
Charactersd Josephina Rooney
Vote Count1
Four people, four walls, four stories, four truths.
Release Date2002-01-10
Charactersd Liz
Vote Count3
When her family moves into a new house, Kat finds a sponge which appears to be alive, but no-one will believe her. After the discovery, the family is besieged by bad luck, and Kat is convinced the sponge is behind it.
Release Date2007-09-11
Charactersd Mrs. Merton
Vote Count10
A video surfaces in the media that appears to show a local Parish priest executing a defenseless man. The church brings in lawyer David Mallory to defend the priest and protect its interests. As David gathers the information he needs for the defense, he sees that things are not entirely what they appear to be. Hell in a Handbag is the chronicles the adventures of Father Michael, an embittered gun-toting exorcist priest, his at times volatile partner, the leather-clad Sister Joan, and their band of misfits including rabbi Ratzenberger, Russian bodyguard Silver, vampire pal Terrance and cross-dressing techie Ellis, as they fight a covert battle against Satan and his minions.
Release Date2013-01-01
Charactersd Mother Superior
In May 2006, filmmakers John Bolton and Errin Clutton were given eight days and eight hundred dollars to produce the made-for-television disaster film "Breakdown". Unfortunately, they spent the first seven days in casting. On the eighth day, they cut together "Breakdown" with the only footage they had - the video from the casting session. This is that film.
Release Date2006-06-03
Charactersd Mary Johnson
Vote Count1
Release Date2009-01-01
Charactersd Carter - Elle-même
Silken Laumann's dreams of winning gold at the 1992 Olympics are shattered after a training accident.
Release Date1996-06-23
Charactersd Kathryn Laumann
Vote Count2
Proof Positive was a reality television paranormal investigation show broadcast by the SciFi Channel beginning in October 6, 2004 through December 8, 2004. It was shown as part of the "SciFi Wednesday" evening schedule line up in the United States along with other reality television programs as Scare Tactics and Ghost Hunters. Proof Positive ran for ten episodes. The show was hosted by actress Amanda Tapping of Stargate SG-1 and Sanctuary.
Release Date2004-10-06
Charactersd Self - Host
Episode Count10
The 200th episode of the venerated sci-fi series is discussed during this special.
Release Date2006-08-18
Charactersd Self
100 years in the future, when the Earth has been abandoned due to radioactivity, the last surviving humans live on an ark orbiting the planet — but the ark won't last forever. So the repressive regime picks 100 expendable juvenile delinquents to send down to Earth to see if the planet is still habitable.
Release Date2014-03-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count8304
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
Release Date2015-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2478
After being struck by lightning, CSI investigator Barry Allen awakens from a nine-month coma to discover he has been granted the gift of super speed. Teaming up with S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry takes on the persona of The Flash, the Fastest Man Alive, to protect his city.
Release Date2014-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count11336
Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.
Release Date2016-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count886
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic.
Release Date2018-10-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3613
Brakebills University is a secret institution specializing in magic. There, amidst an unorthodox education of spellcasting, a group of twenty-something friends soon discover that a magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real— and poses grave danger to humanity.
Release Date2015-12-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1629
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.
Release Date2012-05-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count870
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother. Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
Release Date2017-03-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4768
Kate Kane, armed with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind, soars onto the streets of Gotham as Batwoman, an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter primed to snuff out the failing city's criminal resurgence. But don't call her a hero yet. In a city desperate for a savior, Kate must overcome her own demons before embracing the call to be Gotham's symbol of hope
Release Date2019-10-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1542
The six-person crew of a derelict spaceship awakens from stasis in the farthest reaches of space. Their memories wiped clean, they have no recollection of who they are or how they got on board. The only clue to their identities is a cargo bay full of weaponry and a destination: a remote mining colony that is about to become a war zone. With no idea whose side they are on, they face a deadly decision. Will these amnesiacs turn their backs on history, or will their pasts catch up with them?
Release Date2015-06-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count798
Former police officer Darby Spencer and her mystery novelist mother Victoria Spencer have opposite personalities but still embark on the unlikeliest of ventures: becoming partners in a private detective agency. They are mistaken as sisters as they tackle puzzling cases in Alder Bluffs.
Release Date2023-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore all too true, the battle between man and sea takes a very vicious turn as these predatory beings return to reclaim their right to the ocean.
Release Date2018-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3370
A North American spin-off of the hit U.K. television series, Primeval: New World follows a specialized team of animal experts and scientists that investigates the appearance of temporal anomalies and battles both prehistoric and futuristic creatures.
Release Date2012-10-29
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count68
Two teen ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele — until a powerful witch complicates their plans.
Release Date2024-04-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count260
Falling in love is tricky for teens Juliette and Calliope: One's a vampire, the other's a vampire hunter — and both are ready to make their first kill.
Release Date2022-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count317
Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased partner. Episodes focus on interpersonal conflicts between the characters as well as dramatic flying missions with their aging fleet of Douglas DC-3s, de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otters and other aircraft. Each episode has one or more flying missions. The series was canceled on March 17, 2014, due to government budgetary cuts
Release Date2012-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count14
Karl Alberg moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work but finds himself needing to call upon all his skills to solve the murders that continue to wash up on his shore.
Release Date2024-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count26
The story of how a few brave men and women banished the Gods to the realm of the unconscious - a place they called the Underworld or the Kingdom of Hades. The series follows the protagonist as he seeks the truth about his past, which may be intertwined with the Gods themselves.
Release Date2015-04-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count33
Set in New York City, Nate, Kris, Walter and Aria have crossed paths hundreds of times, yet they've never met. Because of the seemingly minuscule decisions these core four make, we'll witness the ripple effect of how these strangers, all dealing with life's challenges in their own way, are led to one another.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
At the height of her career, investigative journalist Hannah Dunbar finds herself wondering what would have been had she stayed with the love of her life, Ben, 10 years before. When Santa Claus hears her “what ifs?” as a Christmas wish, he transports Hannah to a version of her life where she and Ben started a family.
Release Date2015-07-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count97
Tells the story of the realities faced by women in the film and TV industry yet simultaneously depicts the necessary, possible and achievable ways to transform them. The story is set in common TV backdrops – from a police procedural to a sitcom (complete with laugh track), to a medical drama, to a webisode series.
Release Date2017-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
When an act of cruelty against a young witch becomes a social media sensation, the witches of the world declare war on humanity. This brings the ancient, and once hidden "first sorority," into conflict with a loudmouth billionaire American president, a bigoted and sexist minister, and the people of an easily swayed, media-loving United States and world.
Release Date2020-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Forever Knight is a Canadian television series about Nick Knight, an 800-year-old vampire working as a police detective in modern day Toronto. Wracked with guilt for centuries of killing others, he seeks redemption by working as a homicide detective on the night shift while struggling to find a way to become human again. The series premiered on May 5, 1992 and concluded with the third season finale on May 17, 1996.
Release Date1992-05-05
Episode Count1
Vote Count27
Rushon is sexually pent-up and ready to take thing things to the next level with his girlfriend, Nikki. But when he calls for a date, she asks to make it a double — bringing along her brash friend, Lysterine, whom Rushon sets up with his lewd buddy, Bunz. Things go better than expected. As the evening transitions from the restaurant to the bedroom, the two men go on a madcap search for what will surely make the night complete: condoms.
Release Date1997-02-26
Vote Count118
Two competitors have to ‘match’ their answers to fill-in-the-blank questions to those of the six celebrity panelists.
Release Date2012-10-15
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
