Shaker Paleja
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Shaker Paleja is Canadian film, television, and voice-over actor, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His voice-over work is known to anime
fans of such series as Angel Links (Seihō Tenshi Enjeru Rinkusu)
, and he regularly guest stars on numerous live-action series such as Battlestar Galactica
, Smallville
, Kyle XY
, The L Word
, and Touching Evil
as Sammy Rashaad. Film roles include Food for the Gods, Elegy
with Ben Kingsley
and Dennis Hopper
, and The Day the Earth Stood Still
with Keanu Reeves
.
Among his most recent roles are those of "Bikram Singh" in the Canadian crime drama,Shattered
, and "Ravi" in a two part episode of Sanctuary.
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
fans of such series as Angel Links (Seihō Tenshi Enjeru Rinkusu)
Angel Links
is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō...
, and he regularly guest stars on numerous live-action series such as Battlestar Galactica
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
Battlestar Galactica is an American military science fiction television series, and part of the Battlestar Galactica franchise. The show was developed by Ronald D. Moore as a re-imagining of the 1978 Battlestar Galactica television series created by Glen A. Larson...
, Smallville
Smallville
Smallville is the hometown of Superman in comic books published by DC Comics. While growing up in Smallville, the young Clark Kent attended Smallville High with best friends Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan and Pete Ross...
, Kyle XY
Kyle XY
Kyle XY is an American television series with a science fiction premise and mystery-drama style. The central character is a teenage boy who awakens naked in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, with no more knowledge or abilities than a newborn. He is taken in by a family and given the name Kyle...
, 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...
, and Touching Evil
Touching Evil
Touching Evil is a British television drama serial, which began airing in 1997. It was produced by United Productions for Anglia Television, and screened on the ITV network. The first series consisted of six fifty-minute episodes. It was created by Paul Abbott, and written by Abbott with Russell T...
as Sammy Rashaad. Film roles include Food for the Gods, Elegy
Elegy (film)
Elegy is a 2008 drama directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Philip Roth novel, The Dying Animal. Staring Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. The film is set in New York City, but was filmed in Vancouver.-Plot:...
with Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley
Sir Ben Kingsley, CBE is a British actor. He has won an Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards in his career. He is known for starring as Mohandas Gandhi in the film Gandhi in 1982, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor...
and Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper
Dennis Lee Hopper was an American actor, filmmaker and artist. As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors' Studio. He made his first television appearance in 1954 and appeared in two films featuring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant...
, and The Day the Earth Stood Still
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)
The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 science fiction film, a remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The screenplay is based on the 1940 classic science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, and the 1951 screenplay adaptation by Edmund H...
with Keanu Reeves
Keanu Reeves
Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Reeves is perhaps best known for his roles in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed, Point Break and the science fiction-action trilogy The Matrix...
.
Among his most recent roles are those of "Bikram Singh" in the Canadian crime drama,Shattered
Shattered (2009 TV series)
Shattered is a Canadian police procedural series created by Rick Drew. The main character is a detective who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder....
, and "Ravi" in a two part episode of Sanctuary.
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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2010 | Sanctuary | Ravi | Season 2, Episode 13: Kali: Part II |
2010 | Sanctuary | Ravi | Season 2, Episode 12: Kali: Part I |
2010 | Shattered Shattered (2009 TV series) Shattered is a Canadian police procedural series created by Rick Drew. The main character is a detective who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, also known as multiple personality disorder.... |
Bikram Singh | Season 1, Episode Seven |
2009 | Defying Gravity Defying Gravity (TV series) Defying Gravity is a multi-nationally produced space travel television science fiction drama series, first aired on August 2, 2009 on ABC and CTV and canceled in the autumn of 2009... |
Paramedic | Season 1, Episode Six Bacon |
2008 | The Day the Earth Stood Still The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film) The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 science fiction film, a remake of the 1951 film of the same name. The screenplay is based on the 1940 classic science fiction short story "Farewell to the Master" by Harry Bates, and the 1951 screenplay adaptation by Edmund H... |
Head Medic | |
2008 | Elegy Elegy (film) Elegy is a 2008 drama directed by Spanish director Isabel Coixet and based on a Philip Roth novel, The Dying Animal. Staring Penélope Cruz and Ben Kingsley. The film is set in New York City, but was filmed in Vancouver.-Plot:... |
Kris Banjee | |
2007 | Battlestar Galactica: Razor Battlestar Galactica: Razor Battlestar Galactica: Razor is a television film of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica television series. It premiered in the United States on Sci Fi Channel, in Canada on the Space channel and in the United Kingdom on Sky One.-Production:... |
Medic Hudson | (TV); aka Razor (USA: short title) |
2007 | Food for the Gods | Lt. Cmdr. Monroe Bellwood | |
2007 | Smallville Smallville Smallville is the hometown of Superman in comic books published by DC Comics. While growing up in Smallville, the young Clark Kent attended Smallville High with best friends Lana Lang, Chloe Sullivan and Pete Ross... |
Felix Cashew | Season 6, Episode 14: Trespass Smallville (Season 6) Season six of Smallville, an American television series, began airing on September 28, 2006. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to life in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman... |
2007 | 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... |
Eric | Season 4, Episode 2: Livin' La Vida Loca |
2006 | The 4400 The 4400 The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with Sky Television, Renegade 83, and American Zoetrope for USA Network. The show was created and written by Scott Peters and René Echevarria, and it stars Joel Gretsch and Jacqueline McKenzie... |
Barry | Season 3, Episode 13: Fifty–Fifty |
2006 | Kyle XY Kyle XY Kyle XY is an American television series with a science fiction premise and mystery-drama style. The central character is a teenage boy who awakens naked in a forest outside Seattle, Washington, with no more knowledge or abilities than a newborn. He is taken in by a family and given the name Kyle... |
Manny Jones | Season 1, Episode 9: Overheard |
2005 | 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... |
Security | Series pilot |
2004 | Touching Evil Touching Evil Touching Evil is a British television drama serial, which began airing in 1997. It was produced by United Productions for Anglia Television, and screened on the ITV network. The first series consisted of six fifty-minute episodes. It was created by Paul Abbott, and written by Abbott with Russell T... |
Sammy Rashaad | Season 1, Episode 9: Boston |
2004 | Jeremiah Jeremiah (TV series) Jeremiah is an American television series starring Luke Perry and Malcolm-Jamal Warner that ran on the Showtime network from 2002 to 2004. The series takes place in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the adult population has been wiped out by a deadly virus.Developed by Babylon 5 creator J... |
Jacob's Soldier | Season 2, Episode 13: The State of the Union |
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... |
Jaffa | Season 5, Episode 22: Revelations Revelations (Stargate SG-1) "Revelations" is the Season 5 finale episode of the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. This episode was nominated for an Emmy in the category "Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Series", and won a Gemini Award in the category "Best Visual Effects".-Plot:An Asgard mothership... |
2001 | Dark Angel Dark Angel (TV series) Dark Angel is an American biopunk/cyberpunk science fiction television series created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee. The show premiered in the United States on the Fox network on October 3, 2000, and was canceled after two seasons... |
Trooper | Season 2, Episode 3: Proof of Purchase |
2000 | For All Time For All Time For All Time is the final book in Caroline B. Cooney's time-travel romance series.- Plot summary :Annie Lockwood attends the new Ancient Egypt exhibit in the museum where she hopes to find some clue of Strat's survival. She is thoroughly disappointed to find that Strat is not in the picture of the... |
Leon | |
2000 | Children of Fortune | Navy Man | |
2000 - 1999 | Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry... |
Assistant Director | Recurring -- Season 3, Episode 18: Honey, I'm Spooked Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry... ; Season 3, Episode 15: Honey, I'm on the Lam Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry... ; Season 3, Episode 11: Honey, He Ain't Rude, He's My Brother Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry... ; Season 3, Episode 10: Honey, the Play's the Thingie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry... ; Season 3, Episode 9: Honey, You're Driving Me Like Crazy Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show is an American syndicated science fiction sitcom based on the 1989 film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It expands upon the original film's concept of a shrinking experiment gone wrong to include a myriad of experiments gone awry... |
1999 | Angel Links (Seihō Tenshi Enjeru Rinkusu) Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... |
Cyrus | Voice (English version); Animated (Japan) -- Season 1, Episode 12: All My Soul Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... ; Season 1, Episode 8: My Ship Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... ; Season 1, Episode 6: Crossroads Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... ; Season 1, Episode 5: The Rain Upon the Stars Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... ; Season 1, Episode 3: The Proud Dragon Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... ; Season 1, Episode 1: Guardian Angel Angel Links is an anime television series produced by Sunrise Studio. It was originally aired across the Japanese WOWOW television network from April 7 to June 30, 1999. It is a spin-off of the manga Outlaw Star by Takehiko Itō... |
1999 | Crest of the Stars (Seikai no monshô) Crest of the Stars is a three-volume space opera science fiction novel written by Hiroyuki Morioka with cover illustrations by Toshihiro Ono. Beginning in 1999, the novels were adapted into anime series, the first of which ran for 13 episodes on WOWOW... |
Additional Voices | Voice (English version), various episodes; Animated (Japan) |
1999 - 1998 | Saber Marionette J to X Saber Marionette J to X is a Japanese anime, the last part of the Saber Marionette J series, and a plot continuation of Saber Marionette J Again. Like the previous ones, it was created by . The 26 episode saga began airing in Japan on October 6, 1998 to August 25, 1999... |
Additional Voices | Voice (English version); Animated (Japan) -- Season 1, Episode 22: The Cry Saber Marionette J to X is a Japanese anime, the last part of the Saber Marionette J series, and a plot continuation of Saber Marionette J Again. Like the previous ones, it was created by . The 26 episode saga began airing in Japan on October 6, 1998 to August 25, 1999... ; Season 1, Episode 16: Birds Without Wings Saber Marionette J to X is a Japanese anime, the last part of the Saber Marionette J series, and a plot continuation of Saber Marionette J Again. Like the previous ones, it was created by . The 26 episode saga began airing in Japan on October 6, 1998 to August 25, 1999... ; Season 1, Episode 7: The Lonely Fairy Saber Marionette J to X is a Japanese anime, the last part of the Saber Marionette J series, and a plot continuation of Saber Marionette J Again. Like the previous ones, it was created by . The 26 episode saga began airing in Japan on October 6, 1998 to August 25, 1999... |