Tahmoh Penikett
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| Born | May 20, 1975 Whitehorse, Yukon  Canada |
Tahmoh Penikett (born May 20, 1975 in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada) is a Canadian actor. He currently stars as Captain Karl "Helo" Agathon on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.
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[edit] Early years
Penikett is the son of former Yukon premier Tony Penikett, who is of British ancestry, and a mother from the White River First Nation in the Yukon. He has two siblings, twin sisters Sarah and Stephanie. He graduated from the Victoria Motion Picture School and studied at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver.
Among his early acting work were stints on assorted Canadian TV series such as Cold Squad. He also appeared on the TV show Smallville, in the episode Resurrection in Season 3, and in the Season 6 episodes Nemesis and Prototype. He portrayed a police officer for a predominately gay neighborhood in The L Word episode Losing It which coincidentally starred future Battlestar Galactica co-star Nicki Clyne in a related storyline.
[edit] Battlestar Galactica
In 2003, the 1978 science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica was "reimagined" as a three hour miniseries on the SciFi Channel. The miniseries was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and Penikett, a local actor, auditioned and was cast in the part of Karl "Helo" Agathon, an officer in the Colonial Fleet. The miniseries proved highly successful, and a Battlestar Galactica series was commissioned.
The role was not based a character in the original series, and was meant to be condined only to the miniseries; in the miniseries Helo is shown giving up a spot on a spaceship fleeing the doomed planet of Caprica, with the implication that he was left to die. However, both the producers and test audiences were sufficiently impressed with the character, and Penikett's performance, that the decision was made to make Helo a recurring character on the show. A plot that took place over much of the show's first season was that the Cylons on Caprica kept Helo alive in order to have him fall in love with, and impregnate, a Cylon (Helo was chosen because his crew partner, Sharon Valerii, was in fact a Cylon, and another copy of the same model was sent to pretend to be her). By the second season, his character had returned to the Battlestar Galactica and become a regular member of the crew.
[edit] Other roles
He appeared in the video game Need for Speed: Carbon, as a street racer named Darius.
Penikett is set to co-star as FBI agent Paul Smith in the upcoming Joss Whedon series, Dollhouse, as a romantic foil for star Eliza Dushku.[1][2].
[edit] Convention Appearances
Tahmoh went on March 8th and 9th, 2008 to Monterrey, Mexico to the 32nd Gaming and Comic Book Convention, where he met with his fans, signed autographs and took pictures.
[edit] Personal life
Penikett currently lives in Vancouver, as do his father and sisters.
In support of the Babz Chula Lifeline for Artists Society, which is raising money for their friend and fellow Canadian actor Chula's cancer treatment, Penikett and his Battlestar Galactica colleague Kandyse McClure auctioned off the opportunity to have dinner with both of them in Vancouver in April 2008
[edit] References
- ^ Breaking: Battlestar Stud Playing Dollhouse with Dushku. TV Guide. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
- ^ Dollhouse Casting Alert!. E! Online. Retrieved on 2008-03-26.
[edit] External links
- Tahmoh Penikett at the Internet Movie Database
- All about Tahmoh Penikett (fan site)
- Tahmoh Penikett interview
- Victoria Motion Picture School
- Lyric School of Acting
- Gaming and Comic Book Convention
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