Vaitiare Hirshon

Vaitiare Hirshon

Born: August 15, 1964
in Tahiti, French Polynesia
Vaitiare was born Vaitiare Eugenie Hirshon in Tahiti, French Polynesia, and was later known as Vaitiare Bandera, after she married producer Peter Bandera in 1994-97.

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 20's, she starred in her first comedy film in Spain, Tahiti's Girl (1990), and then decided to study acting, back in Los Angeles, with renown acting coach, Larry Moss.

She hosted an award-winning 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, J.C. Penney, Toyota, Coors Dry, Caroche Jeans-Spain and Honda-Tahiti. She starred in the Spanish-language 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 H.E.A.T. (1993). She also had a role in the movie, U.S. Marshals (1998).

Vaitiare's best-known role was on Stargate SG-1 (1997), where she guest-starred in several episodes as Daniel Jackson's wife, "Sha're". She appeared nude in a scene of the pilot episode, Stargate SG-1: 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 SG-1", 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.

She's appeared in various ads with her family and Vaitiare resumed her acting career.

Vaitiare resides in Los Angeles with her family.

Movies for Vaitiare Hirshon...

Far Away Places
Title: Far Away Places
Character: Tahitian Girl
Released: January 15, 2018
Type: Movie
A boy from Los Angeles travels to Tahiti, French Polynesia to visit his relatives only to find out his younger cousin is being abused by one of the locals.
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Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
Title: Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods
Character: Sha're / Amaunet
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: Movie
An alien similar to Ra appears out of the Stargate, killing five soldiers and kidnapping another, a year after the original Stargate mission. A new team is assembled, including some old members, and they go in search of the missing soldier in order to find out how Ra could still be alive. Meanwhile, the alien Goa'uld kidnap Sha're and Skaara, implanting them with symbiotes and making them Goa'uld hosts.
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U.S. Marshals
Title: U.S. Marshals
Character: Stacia Vela
Released: March 6, 1998
Type: Movie
U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Sha're / Amaunet
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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Title: Stargate SG-1
Character: Sha're
Released: July 27, 1997
Type: TV
The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.
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The Final Goal
Title: The Final Goal
Released: January 10, 1995
Type: Movie
One man buys the future, another stands between the posts to preserve it, in this brutal showdown on the soccer field to win the World Cup.
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Title: Acapulco H.E.A.T.
Character: Carmen
Released: September 28, 1993
Type: TV
Acapulco H.E.A.T. is a 1993 syndicated television series that followed the Hemisphere Emergency Action Team [H.E.A.T.], a group of top-secret agents based in Acapulco, Mexico and recruited by C-5, a secret government coalition, to fight terrorism and international crime. The team kept a low profile, by acting as models and photographers who represented a Beach Fashion enterprise.
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Tahiti's Girl
Title: Tahiti's Girl
Character: Vaitiare
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Married... with Children
Character: Sonja
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: TV
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.