Joe Flanigan

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Flanigan was born in Los Angeles, California. He grew up on a small ranch near Reno, Nevada in the United States. From the age of 14 he attended a boarding school in Ojai, California where he appeared in the school's production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He later attended the University of Colorado where he majored in history and appeared in Coriolanus. He spent a year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris.
After graduation, he pursued a writing career, working briefly for several New York City magazines. On the advice of some of his friends, he studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse, was coached by Gerald Gordon, and later moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting as a career.
Flanigan had guest roles in numerous television series, including Profiler, First Monday, and Sisters, until he got his breakthrough with his current role on Stargate Atlantis as Lt. Colonel John Sheppard, the military leader of the Atlantis Expedition. He lives in Vancouver, Canada, where the series is filmed during the week and flies to Los Angeles, California during the weekends where his wife and children reside. He also wrote the story for the second season episode Epiphany.
Flanigan is married to Katherine Kousi, a former actress turned painter who has recently returned to acting, since 1996 and has three young sons, Aidan, Truman and Fergus.
A 5 min interview with Stargate Atlantis actor Joe Flanigan on KTLA
Joe Flanigan in the episode Proteus on Profiler
Joe Flanigan at the Stargate Atlantis Con Burbank 2007
SGA at Comic Con - Interview with Joe, Robert & Jewel