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Jay Acovone was born on August 20, 1955 in Mahopac (New York/USA).

He is an actor of Italian-American descent.

Acovone is a graduate of Mahopac High School (1973). He attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in 1977 and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute for eight months.

He starred in various movies, for example in “Cruising” (1980), “Out for Justice” (1991), “Conflict of Interest” (1993), “Time Under Fire” (1996), “Crosscut” (1996), “The Get” (1998), “The Amati Girls” (2000), “Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles” (2001), “Collateral Damage” (2002), “Studio City” (2003), “Rancid” (2004) , “Mobsters and Mormons” (2005), “Traci Townsend” (2005), “Sharkskin 6″ (2005), “Paved with Good Intentions” (2006), “The Hills Have Eyes II” (2007) and “InAlienable” (2008).

He also appeared in several television series including “All My Children”, “Beauty and the Beast”, “Search for Tomorrow”, “Hollywood Beat”, “War and Remembrance”, “As the World Turns”, “Renegade”, “Murder, She Wrote”, “Matlock”, “Silk Stalkings”, “Providence”, “The Invisible Man”, “Sliders”, “The
Pretender”, “NYPD Blue”, “The X Files”, “JAG”, “24″ and “General Hospital”.

In Stargate SG-1 he plays Major Charles Kawalsky.

Colin Cunningham Colin Alexander Cunningham was born on August 20, 1966 in Los Angeles (California/USA).

He is an American television and film actor.

Cunningham was raised in Los Angeles with an older sister and younger brother. He traveled extensively in his late teens while trying to figure out what to do with his life. He first took to the stage when dared by a friend, and then as an accomplished theater actor, he gained critical praise in the early 1990s in Eugène Ionesco’s “Exit the King” and the play “Before Eva”, among others.

His film credits include movies such as “Hard Evidence” (1995), “Zacharia Farted” (1998), “Best in Show” (2000), “The 6th Day” (2000), “Stealing Sinatra” (2003), “Elektra” (2005), “Incident at Alma” (2006), “Insider Trading” (2006), “The Entrance” (2006) and “Breakfast with Scot” (2007).

He wrote, produced and starred the movie “Zacharia Farted” (1998). He wrote, directed and starred in the short movie “Centigrade” which is a contemporary thriller.

A major role was his portrayal of Brian Curtis, a crooked cop in the popular award winning Canadian series “Da Vinci’s Inquest”. He reprised the Brian Curtis role in the 2006 sequel series, “Da Vinci’s City Hall”. He also made appearances in the TV series “The X Files”, “Dead Man’s Gun”, “Big Sound”, “Beggars and Choosers”, “Cold Squad”, “Out of Order”, “Andromeda”, “The L Word”, “The Chris Isaak Show”, “The Collector”, “The 4400″, “Impact” and “jPod”.

Cunningham has appeared with Steve Bacic (Goa’uld Camulus) in three different productions: “Stargate SG-1″ (1997), “The 6th Day” (2000) and “Andromeda” (2000).

Originally Cunningham auditioned for the role of Daniel Jackson in Stargate SG-1 but lost against Michael Shanks.

In Stargate he plays Major Paul Davis.

About Stargate

Stargate-Planet.de: “Stargate SG-1 was finished after 10 seasons. Are you content with how the writers developed your character? Any changes you would have
recommended? Anything you always wanted the “Major Davis” character to do but the writers did not weave it into the scripts?”
Colin Cunningham: “The way I see it, I was incredibly fortunate to have done even just ‘one’ episode of Stargate. And to think that I did 7 seasons on the show is mind blowing. I never comment on what the writers did or did not do. They are the brains behind that show and they obviously know what they’re doing.
It’s a creative thing to which I can only be grateful to have been invited along for the ride. I wouldn’t change a thing.”

Today is also the birthday of Isaac Hayes.