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David has appeared as Dr. Rodney McKay in 107 episodes of Stargate (all 100 of Atlantis and 7 on SG-1).
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David is only one of three original Stargate: Atlantis actors to remain a cast member for all five seasons. He is also one of two actors to appear in every episode of the series.
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David's first job was in the IT industry and he still considers it his true passion.
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David is a huge sci-fi lover. He started watching the original
Doctor Who (The longest running science fiction TV series in history, running from 1968- 1989), and had a huge love for the genre ever since.
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David's first TV appearance was in 1987 with the show Street Legal.
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David currently lives in Washington state.
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David's character Dr. McKay was introduced in the
Stargate SG-1 episode "
48 Hours."
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David says that the most scary person he's ever worked with is
Robert Davi.
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David thinks it would have been fun to have been
Marlon Brando for a day.
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His father is a doctor.
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David drives a Toyota Echo.
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David appeared in several shows leading up to Stargate Atlantis: Sci Fi Lowdown: Behind the Stargate - Secrets Revealed, From Stargate to Atlantis: Sci Fi Lowdown, and Preview to Atlantis.
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Was in Toronto's St George's Colledge choir school for boys.
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Dropped out of school in his senior year to persue his acting and computing dreams.
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He struglled in acting for about the first 10 years before he finially made a name for himself.
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David also persued a career in computers at the same time as his acting.
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David and a few of his fellow Sci-Fi geeks made some short films in their early teens.
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He realised he had a tallent for acting while watching
Doctor Who and acting along with it.
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He is the oldest of 6 siblings with 5 sisters.
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He was originally only going to be a one off on Stargate SG-1 but was brought back as he did such a good job and was then hired for the spin off Stargate Atlantis.
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Married To
Soo Garay 5th November 02 to February 2004.
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Davids first time ever visiting Australia was on a November Stargate convention 2005.
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David had starring roles in the movies Where The Heart Is, Pin and the critically acclaimed The Boys Of St. Vincent.
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David's charity of coice is Doctors Without Borders.
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His first computer was an Commodore 64.
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His website design firm is called "Darkyl Media", named after the horse he learned to ride on.
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Awards: -Golden Sheaf Award for best actor for his performance as Hank, the neurotic security guard in Elevated.
-Best Performance at the Yorkton Short Film & Video Festival for his role in Elevated.
-1997 Gemini Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series for Traders.
-1999 Gemini Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Series for Traders for episode "The Whites Of Their Eyes".
-Spacey Award for Best Character for Stargate Atlantis.