Vaitiare Hirshon

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 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.

  • Popularity : 3.358
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1964-08-15
  • Place of Birth : Tahiti, French Polynesia
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Vaitiare Hirshon Movies

  • 2018
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    Far Away Places

    Far Away Places

    5 2018 HD

    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...

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  • 1995
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    The Final Goal

    The Final Goal

    3 1995 HD

    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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  • 1998
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    U.S. Marshals

    U.S. Marshals

    6.5 1998 HD

    U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan...

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  • 1990
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    Tahiti's Girl

    Tahiti's Girl

    1 1990 HD

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  • 2009
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    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods

    7.3 2009 HD

    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...

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  • 2018
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    Far Away Places

    Far Away Places

    5 2018 HD

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  • 1997
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    Stargate SG-1

    Stargate SG-1

    8.3 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Acapulco H.E.A.T.

    Acapulco H.E.A.T.

    4.9 1993 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Stargate SG-1

    Stargate SG-1

    8.3 1997 HD

    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...

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  • 1987
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    Married... with Children

    Married... with Children

    7.7 1987 HD

    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,...

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  • 1984
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    Murder, She Wrote

    Murder, She Wrote

    7.6 1984 HD

    An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

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  • 1996
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    Pacific Blue

    Pacific Blue

    5.4 1996 HD

    Pacific Blue is an American crime drama series about a team of police officers with the Santa Monica Police Department who patrolled its beaches on...

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