Aaron Douglas
Aaron Douglas (born August 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor. He is
best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on the Sci Fi Channel's
television program Battlestar Galactica.
He headlined on the CTV drama The Bridge, which was also
picked up by CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas played
Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously
battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within
the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes,
which began production in May 2009 but was dropped after showing
just three episodes. Aaron starred along side fellow Battlestar
Galactica actor Paul Campbell in a Syfy original movie, Killer
Mountain, which premiered August 27, 2011.
When he was 10,
Aaron moved with his family from Vancouver to a town in the interior
of the province of British Columbia, Creston, where he attended
Prince Charles Secondary School as a teenager and acted in school
productions, played in a rock band and participated in community
theater. At age 26, he quit his job and moved back to Vancouver to
pursue a career in acting. He studied at Canada's famed William
Davis Center for Actors Study.
After completing the program
at William Davis, Aaron performed with the Okanagan Shakespeare
Company in Canada. Many of the his early acting jobs were the result
of his work as a "reader" for auditions. His job was to read the
other side of the dialogue for the person auditioning for a role.
Often, after the audition was finished, the director would turn to
him and say something like, "You know that cop role with three
lines, do you want to do it?" He began building his resume off those
small parts.
Aaron has a love of hockey and has been on
skates since he was 2 years old. He still plays hockey as an adult,
usually as a goalie. He is a devoted Vancouver Canucks fan and can
usually be found at home games screaming at the referees along with
friends and fellow Sci-Fi alums Daniel Bacon, Dan Payne, and Ryan
Robbins. He is also an avid fan of Wil Wheaton from Star Trek: The
Next Generation. Aaron has admitted to going "fangirl" on him when
meeting him for the first time at a convention in 2008. He is also a
self-confessed fan of The Ricky Gervais Show.
Aaron works
with a number of charities, specifically Canadian Breast Cancer
Foundation, Canadian Cancer Society and Canucks for Kids - Canuck
Place Children's Hospice.
Family
Aaron Douglas was born in New Westminster, a suburb of Vancouver,
British Columbia. His father, Michael Douglas, is a professor and
his mother, Arlene Elliot, is a psychologist. He has a brother
Chris, who is four years his junior. The family lived in Vancouver
until Aaron was 10,
On November 1, 2004, Aaron's wife died
after battling breast cancer. He has a son, Taylor, from a previous
relationship, born in 1996.
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