Vaitiare Hirshon

Vaitiare was born Vaitiare Eugenie Hirshon in Tahiti French Polynesia and was later known as Vaitiare Bandera after she married producer Peter Bandera in 199497 Once she graduated high school at the age of 16 she signed with a top modeling agency in Los Angeles and booked her first audition A year after at the age of 17 she auditioned for the internationally singer Julio Iglesias Christmas Special music video filmed in her homeland She was offered the lead female role in the remake of The Bounty 1984 starring a young Mel Gibson and turned it down In her early 20s she starred in her first comedy film in Spain Tahitis Girl 1990 and then decided to study acting back in Los Angeles with renown acting coach Larry Moss She hosted an awardwinning 13 episodes documentary Tahiti and her Island for TVE Spain She appeared in several TV ads and was named Ambassador of Good Will for a Disabled Childrens Charity in South America Vaitiare was the Hispanic spokesperson for Miller Beer from 1993 through to 1995 She has also done ads for Cox Communications Sears JC Penney Toyota Coors Dry Caroche JeansSpain and HondaTahiti She starred in the Spanishlanguage novella Agujetas de color de rosa 1994 which was seen in 45 countries She also made guest appearances on Married with Children 1987 Out of the Blue 1995 and Acapulco HEAT 1993 She also had a role in the movie US Marshals 1998 Vaitiares bestknown role was on Stargate SG1 1997 where she gueststarred in several episodes as Daniel Jacksons wife Share She appeared nude in a scene of the pilot episode Stargate SG1 Children of the Gods 1997 in which she was forced to take a Goauld symbiote by the System Lord Apophis It is on the set of the pilot episode of Stargate SG1 where she met the father of her child Michael Shanks They have a daughter Tatiana Shanks born in 1998 They remain good friends and share custody Vaitiare is married to business owner Edgars Asars and have a boy Kenta Asars born in 2005 who also models and acts since the tender age of 2 Shes appeared in various ads with her family and Vaitiare resumed her acting career Vaitiare resides in Los Angeles with her family