Aaron Douglas (actor)
Canadian actor
Aaron Douglas (born August 23, 1971) is a Canadian actor and writer. He is best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on the Sci-Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica.
Douglas headlined on the CTV drama The Bridge, which was also picked up by CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas played Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, which began production in May 2009 but the series was dropped after just three episodes had been aired. Douglas starred alongside fellow Battlestar Galactica actor Paul Campbell in a Syfy original movie, Killer Mountain, which premiered August 27, 2011.
Early life
Aaron Douglas was born in New Westminster, a city in the Lower Mainland on the South Coast of British Columbia. His father Michael Douglas is a professor and his mother Arlene Elliot is a psychologist. He has a brother Chris who is four years his junior. The family lived in Vancouver until Douglas was 10 at which time they moved to Creston in the interior of British Columbia where he attended Prince Charles Secondary School as a teenager and acted in school productions, played in a rock band and participated in community theater.
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