Leah Cairns

Leah Cairns is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her role as one of the Raptor pilots, Lieutenant Margaret Racetrack Edmondson, on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.

Cairns was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up in Kamloops, with dreams of becoming a professional dancer, which were dashed when she broke her back in a car accident at 16. When her dance team went to an international competition in her graduating year, rather than sit and mope at home, she headed off to Costa Rica, starting an eightyear backpacking odyssey that took her tocountries. Prior to returning to Canada, she stumbled into an improvisation class at an ashram in India.

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