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LISA RYDER
As Beka Valentine

Lisa Ryder stars as Beka Valentine, the commander of the salvage ship Eureka Maru and eventual first officer of the Andromeda Ascendant, in “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda,” the weekly science fiction action drama from Tribune Entertainment that first aired in national syndication in 2000.

Ryder has amassed an impressive list of credits before joining the cast of “Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda.” Most recently, she appeared in a number of feature films and television series including “Total Recall 2070”/Alliance Atlantis, “Psi Factor,”/ Alliance Atlantis and the upcoming “Jason X”/New Line Cinema/Crystal Lake Entertainment. Ryder also appeared in a recurring role on the Canadian television program “The Newsroom”/CBC-TV and starred as a series lead on “Forever Knight”/ Paragon Entertainment. She was also featured as the lead in the feature film “Stolen Heart”/Backroad Films and as a guest star in “Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict”/Alliance Atlantis/Tribune Entertainment.

Equally accomplished in live theater, Ryder has starred in more than 25 stage plays including such productions as “Insignificance,” “Possible Worlds” and “Macbeth.” On the performance front, her versatile talents extend beyond the acting arena into play writing. Ryder has written and co-written a number of stage plays including “Baggage,” “Panting of the Victors,” and a one-woman show entitled “Put Me Away.”

A graduate of the University of Toronto in Drama, Ryder also trained with numerous prominent drama instructors.