Name: Joe Flanigan
Birth Name: Joseph Harold Dunnigan III
Date of Birth: 5th January 1967
Tropical Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Goat (Fire)
Height: 6' " (1.83m)
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Spouse: Katherine Kousi (1996 - present)
Children: Aidan, Truman and Fergus

Trivia
He was tapped for the lead in the NBC pilot Sherman's March (2000) (TV).

Graduate of University of Colorado, he majored in history.

Of the five original "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004) regulars, he is the only American. Torri Higginson, Rainbow Francks and Rachel Luttrell are all Canadian, and David Hewlett is English (though he now also lives in Canada).

Wife, Katherine Kousi, is a painter.

Favorite foods include Chinese, Indian, French, Italian, Japanese, Thai etc.

Shares his birthday with his "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004) co-star Paul McGillion.

Is a very good skier, proved by the fact he won two prizes at the Waterkeepers' Alliance event in Lake Louise in January 2006.

Only he and David Hewlett have both appeared in all 80 episodes of "Stargate: Atlantis" (2004). Rachel Luttrell has been credited in all episodes but has not appeared in them all.

Worked as an advance man in President George Bush's administration and as a bartender, but fired from both jobs.

When he was a child, his mother remarried, he was adopted by his step father and took his last name, Flanigan.