- Born
- Birth nameJoseph Harold Dunnigan III
- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Joe Flanigan started his career in politics working as an advance man at the White House. That was followed by a stint at Andy Warhol's Interview magazine until finally settling At Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. He was quickly cast in several NBC projects and eventually put under contract there as a series regular for NBC 'Sisters' alongside Sela Ward and Swoosie Kurtz. This was followed with another series regular role...... Don Bellisario's First Monday on CBS starring Charles Durning & Joe Mantegna. He was then cast on Garry Marshal's The Other Sister alongside Diane Keaton, Juliette Lewis, and Giovanni Ribisi...... Some of Joe's other TV credits include multiple recurring roles on Dawson's Creek, Cupid, Providence, Profiler, and Women's Murder Club, and was the star of Stargate Atlantis playing the role of Colonel John Sheppard which went into international syndication with 100 episodes.
Joe just finished multiple episodes on the second and third season of Apple's TV show SEE starring Jason Momoa.
- IMDb mini biography by: self
- SpouseKatherine Kousi(January 5, 1997 - November 2013) (divorced, 3 children)
- ParentsJohn FlaniganNancy Flanigan
- Fwoopy hair
- Worked as an advance man in President George H.W. Bush's administration and as a bartender, but was fired from both jobs.
- Only he and David Hewlett appeared in all 99 episodes of Stargate: Atlantis (2004). Rachel Luttrell was credited in all episodes but did not appear in all of them.
- Is a very good skier, as evinced by the fact he won two prizes at the Waterkeepers' Alliance event in Lake Louise in January 2006.
- When he was a child, his mother remarried; he was adopted by his stepfather and took his last name, Flanigan.
- Of the five original Stargate: Atlantis (2004) regulars, Flanigan is the only American. Torri Higginson, Rainbow Sun Francks, and Rachel Luttrell are all Canadian, and David Hewlett is English (but based in Canada).
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content
