Ona Grauer
Encyclopedia
Ona Grauer is a Mexican–Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of the Ancient
Ayiana and later Emily Young in the science fiction television franchise Stargate
.
, Mexico
. She moved to Canada
as a child, and was raised in Nelson, British Columbia
. Grauer's mother worked as a caterer on MacGyver
, the show whose star, Richard Dean Anderson
, Grauer would later act with in Stargate SG-1. Her height is 5 foot.
Grauer has appeared in a number of films such as House of the Dead
and Deep Evil. She has also appeared in a number of television series besides the Stargate franchise, such as First Wave, The Net
, Sliders
, Freedom
, Smallville
, Tarzan
, Andromeda
, Archer
and ABC-TV
's re-imagined V
series.
Grauer is married, and she has one son (b. 2004) and one daughter.
Ancient (Stargate)
The Ancients are a humanoid race in the fictional Stargate universe. They are called "Ancients" in the Milky Way, but are also known as Lanteans or Ancestors in the Pegasus galaxy and as the Alterans in their home galaxy, and they sometimes call themselves Anquietas in their language...
Ayiana and later Emily Young in the science fiction television franchise Stargate
Stargate
Stargate is a adventure military science fiction franchise, initially conceived by Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Stargate. It was originally released on October 28, 1994, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco, and became a hit, grossing nearly...
.
Life and career
Grauer was born Anna-Margarita Grauer in Mexico CityMexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
, Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. She moved to Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
as a child, and was raised in Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson, British Columbia
Nelson is a city located in the Selkirk Mountains on the extreme West Arm of Kootenay Lake in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. Known as "The Queen City", and acknowledged for its impressive collection of restored heritage buildings from its glory days in a regional silver rush,...
. Grauer's mother worked as a caterer on MacGyver
MacGyver
MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff. Henry Winkler and John Rich were the executive producers. The show ran for seven seasons on ABC in the United States and various other networks abroad from 1985 to 1992. The series was filmed in Los Angeles...
, the show whose star, Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson
Richard Dean Anderson is an American television and film actor, producer and composer. He began his television career in 1976 as Dr. Jeff Webber in the American soap opera series General Hospital, then rose to prominence as the lead actor in the television series MacGyver...
, Grauer would later act with in Stargate SG-1. Her height is 5 foot.
Grauer has appeared in a number of films such as House of the Dead
House of the Dead (film)
House of the Dead is a 2003 action-horror film adaptation of the successful 1996 light gun arcade game of the same name produced by Sega. The film was directed by Uwe Boll. The film was universally panned by critics.-Plot:...
and Deep Evil. She has also appeared in a number of television series besides the Stargate franchise, such as First Wave, The Net
The Net (TV series)
The Net is a 1998 television drama series based on the 1995 film of the same name. The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett, the character Sandra Bullock played in the film...
, Sliders
Sliders
Sliders is an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast for five seasons, beginning in 1995 and ending in 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. The show was created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé...
, Freedom
Freedom (TV series)
Freedom is a short-lived 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed, but only 7 were aired. Some episodes were further aired internationally...
, Smallville
Smallville (TV series)
Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October...
, Tarzan
Tarzan (TV series)
This is a list of TV series based on Tarzan....
, Andromeda
Andromeda (TV series)
Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt...
, Archer
Archer (TV series)
Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating....
and ABC-TV
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
's re-imagined V
V (2009 TV series)
V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes...
series.
Grauer is married, and she has one son (b. 2004) and one daughter.
Films
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is a 2010 fantasy-adventure film directed by Chris Columbus. The film is loosely based on The Lightning Thief, the first novel in the Percy Jackson & The Olympians series by Rick Riordan... |
Artemis | |
| 2008 | Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon Yeti: Curse of the Snow Demon is a 2008, made-for-television horror film broadcast on the Sci Fi Channel on June 9, 2008. Starring Carly Pope, Peter DeLuise, Ona Grauer, and Crystal Lowe, the film centers around a group of people whom, after crashing their plane into the Himalayan Mountains,... |
Fury | TV |
| 2006 | Firewall Firewall (film) Firewall is a 2006 British-American thriller film directed by Richard Loncraine and written by Joe Forte. Harrison Ford stars as Jack Stanfield, a security expert at a bank faced with a corporate merger and the offer of a new job.-Plot:... |
Waitress | |
| Lost Behind Bars | Amanda Watson | TV | |
| 2005 | Intelligence Intelligence (film) Intelligence is a short film starring Milo Ventimiglia, directed by Allen Martinez, played in a dozen festivals in 2006 and at 7 of these festivals such as Silver Lake Film Festival, MethodFest, LA ShortsFest and the Libertas Film Festival in Croatia... |
Katarina | TV |
| Murder at the Presidio | Kathy Tucker | TV | |
| Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Mork & Mindy' | Raquel Welch | TV | |
| Ladies Night | Emily Morgan | TV | |
| Alone in the Dark Alone in the Dark (2005 film) Alone in the Dark is a 2005 horror film, loosely based on Infogrames' popular video game series of the same name. It is directed by Uwe Boll, and stars Christian Slater as supernatural detective Edward Carnby and Tara Reid as the scientist assisting him... |
Agent Feenstra | ||
| 2004 | Catwoman Catwoman (film) Catwoman is a 2004 American superhero film and quasi-spinoff of the Batman film series directed by Pitof and released by Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures on July 23, 2004.... |
Sandy | |
| Deep Evil | Dr. Cole | TV | |
| Perfect Romance | Peter's girlfriend | TV | |
| 2003 | The Lizzie McGuire Movie The Lizzie McGuire Movie The Lizzie McGuire Movie is a 2003 Walt Disney Pictures comedy film based on the Disney Channel show Lizzie McGuire which was released on May 2, 2003, by Walt Disney Pictures, it was the first Disney Channel series to have a movie for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by Jim Fall with... |
Model #1 | |
| 1st to Die 1st to Die 1st to Die is the first book in the Women's Murder Club series, written by James Patterson. The series is about four friends who pool their skills together to crack San Francisco's toughest murder cases... |
Becky DeGraaff | TV | |
| House of the Dead House of the Dead (film) House of the Dead is a 2003 action-horror film adaptation of the successful 1996 light gun arcade game of the same name produced by Sega. The film was directed by Uwe Boll. The film was universally panned by critics.-Plot:... |
Alicia | ||
| 2002 | We'll Meet Again We'll Meet Again (2002 film) We'll Meet Again is a 2002 film, based on the novel of the same name by Mary Higgins Clark.-Plot:Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to... |
Anna Marie Scalli | TV |
| 2001 | Romantic Comedy 101 | Deanna | TV |
| 2000 | The Christmas Secret | Ms. Isakson | TV |
| First Target | Nina Stahl | TV | |
| My 5 Wives | Poolside Cocktail Waitress | ||
| Beautiful Joe Beautiful Joe Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty.-The real Beautiful Joe:... |
Ariel |
Television
| Year | Title | Role | No. of episodes | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Archer Archer (TV series) Archer is an American animated television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. A preview of the series aired on September 17, 2009. The first season premiered on January 14, 2010. The show carries a TV-MA-LSV rating.... |
Katya Kazanova | 2 episodes | — |
| V V (2009 TV series) V is an American science fiction television series that ran for two seasons on ABC, from November 3, 2009 to March 15, 2011. A remake of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes... |
Kerry Eltoff | 4 episodes | — | |
| 2010 | The Bridge The Bridge (TV series) The Bridge was a Canadian police drama commissioned by CTV and CBS starring Aaron Douglas. The name of the series is derived from the bridge which separates the wealthy Rosedale neighborhood of Toronto with one of its poorest, St. James Town.... |
Abby St. James | 11 episodes | — |
| 2009 | Stargate Universe Stargate Universe Stargate Universe is a Canadian-American military science fiction television series and part of MGM's Stargate franchise. It follows the adventures of a present-day, multinational exploration team traveling on the Ancient spaceship Destiny many billions of light years distant from the Milky Way... |
Emily Young | 4 episodes | — |
| 2008 | Flashpoint Flashpoint (TV series) Flashpoint is a Canadian police drama television series that debuted on July 11, 2008, on CTV in Canada and ran on CBS in the United States for its first three and a half seasons. In 2011, Ion Television began airing new episodes of the series in the United States... |
Irina Kazkov | 1 episode | Gemini Award Gemini Award The Gemini Awards are annual television broadcasting industry awards in Canada.First awarded in 1986, the Geminis celebrate the achievements of TV members of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Essentially, it presents awards for the best television productions in Canada. Awards are... -nominated |
| 2006–2007 | Intelligence Intelligence (TV series) Intelligence is a Vancouver-based television crime drama starring Ian Tracey and Klea Scott that aired on the CBC. With its pilot first airing on November 28, 2005, the series began regular broadcasting on October 10, 2006. CBC reaired the pilot on June 7, 2007 and began broadcasting reruns of... |
Katarina Weigel | 16 episodes | — |
| 2007 | Flash Gordon Flash Gordon (2007 TV series) Flash Gordon is an American science fiction television series that debuted on Sci Fi in the United States on August 10, 2007 and continued airing new episodes through February 8, 2008. It has also appeared on the United Kingdom Sci Fi Channel and SPACE in Canada... |
Genessa | 1 episode | — |
| Supernatural Supernatural (TV series) Supernatural is an American supernatural and horror television series created by Eric Kripke, which debuted on September 13, 2005 on The WB, and is now part of The CW's lineup. Starring Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, the series follows the brothers as they... |
Crossroad Demon | 1 episode | — | |
| 2006 | Three Moons Over Milford Three Moons Over Milford Three Moons Over Milford is an American science fiction dramedy set in a picturesque small town in southern Vermont. Shortly before the series begins, an asteroid hits the Moon, shattering it into three fragments, threatening to eventually fall to Earth and end life... |
Sarah Louise | 4 episodes | — |
| Godiva's Godiva's Godiva's is an hour long Canadian television comedy-drama series, which debuted on Bravo! and Citytv in 2005. It completed a successful two-season run in 2006, but though the show received rave reviews, it was cancelled by CHUM broadcasting... |
Annie | 1 episode | — | |
| 2004–2005 | The Collector The Collector (TV series) The Collector is a Canadian Supernatural drama television series about a man attempting to help save people who have bargained their souls with the Devil... |
Katrina | 15 episodes | — |
| 2005 | The L Word The L Word The L Word is an American co-production television drama series originally shown on Showtime portraying the lives of a group of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people and their friends, family and lovers in the trendy Greater Los Angeles, California city of West Hollywood... |
Sandy | 1 episode | — |
| 2004 | Smallville Smallville (TV series) Smallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar based on the DC Comics character Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB Television Network , premiering on October... |
Dr. Gabrielle Vaughan | 1 episode | — |
| Stargate: Atlantis | Ayiana Ancient (Stargate) The Ancients are a humanoid race in the fictional Stargate universe. They are called "Ancients" in the Milky Way, but are also known as Lanteans or Ancestors in the Pegasus galaxy and as the Alterans in their home galaxy, and they sometimes call themselves Anquietas in their language... |
1 episode | — | |
| 2003 | Andromeda Andromeda (TV series) Andromeda is a Canadian-American science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt... |
Melea | 1 episode | — |
| Tarzan Tarzan (TV series) This is a list of TV series based on Tarzan.... |
Alice Clayton | 1 episode | — | |
| Out of Order Out of Order (TV series) Out of Order is an American television dramedy series created and written by Donna Powers and Wayne Powers , who also directed the first and final episodes... |
Escort | — | Mini-series | |
| Black Sash Black Sash (TV series) Black Sash is an American action adventure drama television series starring Russell Wong. It ran from March 30, 2003, to June 1, 2003. Including pilots, a total of eight episodes were made, however only six episodes were aired on The WB.-Plot:... |
Beth Rodgers | 5 episodes | — | |
| 2002–2003 | John Doe John Doe (TV series) John Doe is an American science fiction drama television series that aired on Fox during the 2002–2003 TV season.-Synopsis:"I woke up in an island off the coast of Seattle. I didn't know how I got there ... or who I was. But I did seem to know everything else. There were things about me I didn't... |
Theresa | 3 episodes | — |
| 2002 | Stargate SG-1 Stargate SG-1 Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich... |
Ayiana | 1 episode | — |
| 2001 | Freedom Freedom (TV series) Freedom is a short-lived 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed, but only 7 were aired. Some episodes were further aired internationally... |
Lieutenant Fallon | 1 episode | — |
| 2001 | First Wave | Taryn | 1 episode | Terminal City |
| 1999–2001 | First Wave | Olivia | 2 episodes | — |
| 2000 | Harsh Realm Harsh Realm Harsh Realm is a science fiction television series about humans trapped inside a virtual reality simulation. It was developed by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files and Millennium, and began airing on the Fox Network on October 8, 1999. The series fared poorly in the ratings and was removed from... |
Pretty Young Woman | 1 episode | — |
| Seven Days | Leslie Dixon | 1 episode | — | |
| 1998 | The Net The Net (TV series) The Net is a 1998 television drama series based on the 1995 film of the same name. The series starred Brooke Langton as Angela Bennett, the character Sandra Bullock played in the film... |
Mori (Kallus Records Receptionist) | 1 episode | — |
| 1997 | Breaker High Breaker High Breaker High was a Canadian teen comedy-drama series that ran from 1997 to 1998, airing on YTV in Canada and on UPN in the United States.-Synopsis:... |
Lena | 1 episode | — |
| 1996 | Sliders Sliders Sliders is an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast for five seasons, beginning in 1995 and ending in 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. The show was created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé... |
Debra | 1 episode | — |