Ulla Friis
Biography
Ulla Friis (born in Copenhagen, Denmark) is a Danish actress. She began her acting career at a young age with numerous theater productions. After finishing school, she was initially accepted into a medical faculty but decided to pursue acting after a stay in New York City. In 1999, she graduated from the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre and began her professional career in New York before moving to Vancouver to work in film and television. She is known for her roles in Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007), Arrow (2012–2020), The 4400 (2004–2007), The L Word (2004–2009), and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007).
Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles
Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Shallan
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.
Drama Series - 2004, 16 episodes • as Jane Nance
4400 centers on the return of 4400 people who, previously presumed dead or reported missing, reappear on Earth. Though they have not aged physically, some of them seem to have deeper alterations ranging from superhuman strength to an unexplained healing touch. A government agency is formed to track the 4400 people after one of them commits a murder.
Drama Series - 1997, 16 episodes • as Brady (segment "Night Walker")
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Danish News Anchor (uncredited)
The Fantastic Four return to the big screen as a new and all powerful enemy threatens the Earth. The seemingly unstoppable 'Silver Surfer', but all is not what it seems and there are old and new enemies that pose a greater threat than the intrepid superheroes realize.
Movie - 2000, 2h 15m • as Woman at Party (uncredited)
A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Drama Series - 2002, 16 episodes • as Biker Babe at Blackjack
John Doe tell the story of a man who wakes up naked on an island off the coast of Seattle, knowing everything in the world there is to know—except for who he is and how and why he ended up there.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Kelly
America's favorite gay private investigator, Donald Strachey, takes on the most complicated case of his career. After his long-time partner, Tim, asks him to uncover the source of an anonymous and generous donation to the Albany youth center, he gets caught in a whirlwind of deceit and danger.
Movie - 2001, 2h 15m • as Tech #3
Physicist Eva Soderstrom discovers greedy industrialist Thomas Abernathy is on the verge of creating an artificial black hole in a laboratory on Earth. It's the same experiment that killed her father years earlier, except bigger. With the help of Dr. Price, Eva tries to stop Abernathy and, possibly, save the planet