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Joe Flanigan
Joe Flanigan appeared in one episode of "Birds of Prey" (2002), "Prey for the Hunter", before fellow Stargate franchise member Carmen Argenziano, of "Stargate SG-1" (1997), appeared in the episode "Nature of the Beast"
At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.
Joe Flanigan
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Joseph Harold Dunnigan
5 January 1967, Los Angeles, California
Television actor Joe Flanigan was born in Los Angeles, California on January 5, 1967. He grew up in a ranch in Reno, Nevada and then went to a boarding school in Ojai, California. He earned his History degree from the University of Colorado, and then studied for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career and has appeared in numerous TV series such as First Monday and Sisters. The 6’2” actor is married to former actress Katherine Kousi and they have three sons.
John Sheppard is played by Joe Flanigan on the Sci-Fi Channel series Stargate Atlantis. Sheppard is an Air Force officer serving for the Stargate Atlantis team.
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He was tapped for the lead in the NBC pilot Sherman's March (2000) (TV).
Graduate of University of Colorado, major in history.
Of the five original "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004) regulars, he is the only American. Torri Higginson, Rainbow Francks and Rachel Luttrell are all Canadian, and David Hewlett is English (though he now also lives in Canada).
Wife, Katherine Kousi, is a painter.
Favorite foods include Chinese, Indian, French, Italian, Japanese, Thai etc.
Shares his birthday with his "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004) co-star Paul McGillion.
Is a very good skier, proved by the fact he won two prizes at the Waterkeepers' Alliance event in Lake Louise in January 2006.
He and his wife, Katherine Kousi, have three sons, Aidan, Truman and Fergus.
Joe and his wife welcomed a third son in September 2006.
Only he and David Hewlett have both appeared in all 100 episodes of "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004). Rachel Luttrell has been credited in all episodes but has not appeared in them all.
Worked as an advance man in President George Bush' administration and as a bartender, but fired from both jobs.
When he was a child, his mother remarried, he was adopted by his step father and took his last name, Flanigan.
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