Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.
For the past 10 years, people have been making fun of the eighties. Why are we bringing them back?
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
I didn't get that far with the martial arts thing. My boyfriend at the time was a black belt at karate and tried to help me, but I got scared.
I do a lot of traveling, and I've discovered that you will always be roughing it.
I do see myself going to LA. Not anytime soon.
I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.
I like breaking the rules.
I played a Russian ballerina who was a stripper. I got to hang out with real strippers. There was one who was stripping to put herself through college to become a mortician.
I quite enjoy science fiction.
I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.
I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.
I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.
I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.
I was always a bit of a tomboy, but when we played Cowboys and Indians as kids, I was always the victim who had to be tied up.
I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
I'd love to do a comedy. It's a lighter environment, you get to laugh a lot and play.
I'm a perfume whore.
I'm determined to be a diva.
I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period.
I'm off to save the universe again. It's a tough job but someone has to do it, and I'm glad it's me.
I'm so much more of an East Coast girl than a West Coast girl.
I'm sure there are things I'm probably not even aware of that I subconsciously bring to my portrayal of the character.
I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I would move to New York in a heartbeat.
In real life I'm so liberal, so to mentally have to go in the other direction was an interesting acting exercise.
It doesn't matter if you're staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.
It doesn't take much to make me happy.
It's a dream part, running around with guns, being an agent.
Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.
My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work.
Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
The Commonwealth Protocol prohibits anything other than a strictly professional relationship between AI and anything other than AI.
The idea of running around and screaming about Jason Voorhees trying to kill you was fun.
The idea of taking off my shoes and trying on all these clothes is so exhausting, I just leave.
The thing about Canada is, you're not really considered a Canadian actor unless you do something with the CBC.
There are important things going on in the Stargate universe. I think the writers have a few more pressing storylines to put to paper.
Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
When I get my kit off for film companies, they pay me a great deal of money. Why would I want to do it in a strip club?
When I saw a production of Porgy and Bess, I wanted to be Porgy because he was the smallest guy on the stage, and I identified with him.
Women play very important roles in real life situations in every walk of life, including security and the military.
Lexa: I walked out of the audition absolutely convinced I had blown it, and then my agent called to tell me I got the part. I was leaping around my parents' house and screaming at the top of my lungs. I knew then I'd chosen the right profession and I've never looked back since. (Lexa talks about her audition for the role on "TekWar").
Lexa: Ignorance... stupidity I can forgive, you can't help it if you were born with a low IQ. But ignorance, choosing not to educate yourself, is unforgivable.
Lexa's most treasured personals are a necklace that belonged to her Granny, and old family photos.
Lexa keeps quiet about her personal life, saying that it's really boring.
Lexa was nominated for Cinescape Genre Female Face of the Future Award.
Lexa plays Camille, in the movie "No Alibi".
Lexa favorite colors are green, silver or deep red.
Lexa did commercials and modelling work, before dropping out of high school during her final year to pursue an acting career.
Lexa: As far as my early days as a professional actor go, I'm no longer subsisting off a diet of Ichiban and Kraft Dinner... Life is good.
In Jason X, (2002), Lexa's role was a human while her "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda" co-star Lisa Ryder played an android. On the "Andromeda" TV series however, Ryder played the human while Doig was the android.
Lexa said in an interview her favorite outtake on Andromeda was "when a character was supposed to storm out of the room, but instead walked into a wall".
Lexa is the cousin of actor Rey-Phillip Santos.
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