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Richard Dean Anderson (born January 23, 1950) is an American actor of Irish, Swedish, Norwegian and Mohawk Native American descent.

He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, grew up in Roseville, Minnesota and attended Ohio University and St. Cloud State University.

He started his acting career in soap opera (appearing on General Hospital as Dr. Jeff Webber from 1976 to 1981). He also starred as Adam in the television series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
(based very loosely on the movie of the same name), but came to fame with the hit television series MacGyver which lasted from 1985 to 1992 and was highly successful throughout its entire run.

From 1997 to 2005, he starred as Colonel/Brigadier General Jack O'Neill in Stargate SG-1, based on the movie Stargate starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. In Season Eight, he opted to have a reduced role in the series due to his reduced availability. Anderson has decided to leave the show as a regular star in Season Nine, preferring instead to make a few guest appearances.

He was presented with an award and made an honorary Brigadier General at the Air Force Association's 57th Annual Air Force Anniversary Dinner in Washington, D.C. on September 14, 2004 because of his role as star and executive producer of Stargate SG-1, a series which has portrayed the Air Force in a positive light since it first premiered. It was presented by the then-Air Force Chief-of-Staff, General John P. Jumper. The last recipient of the award was James Stewart in 1987.

Anderson has always been a great fan of the television show The Simpsons and finally in 2005 he was invited to guest star on the show, which he had continually referenced during his time on SG-1. He voices 'himself' in an episode called Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore (season 17 episode 17, air date April 9 2006) in which he is kidnaped by Selma and Patty Bouvier, Anderson's MacGyver character is a longstanding heartthrob for the sisters of Marge Simpson. Dan Castellaneta, the voice actor who portrays Homer Simpson, made a guest appearance on Stargate SG-1 and, in describing his unnatural ability to see the life events of Jack O'Neill, made reference to O'Neill's fondness for "The Simpsons."

Anderson also appears in the 1997 PC game Fallout as the voice of Killian Darkwater, who was the clever head of the city made entirely of post-nuclear junk (Junktown).

Anderson has a daughter named Wylie Quinn Annarose who was born in 1998 by his partner, Apryl Prose.

He is also an avid Ice Hockey player and Skier and is so much of a fan of the sports that he has deliberately appeared playing these sports in several of his TV shows, including MacGyver.

He appeared in a Mastercard commercial during Super Bowl XL.

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