She developed a strong interest in acting and was inspired to become an actor at age nine after she watched a theatre production of Porgy and Bess.

[3] While completing compulsory secondary education at Don Mills Collegiate Institute, she enrolled in a vocational modelling program.

[citation needed] The initial media exposure led to her co-hosting the Canadian game show Video & Arcade Top 10 (1991–2006).

[10] In 2012, she began playing the role of Liber8 terrorist Sonya Valentine in the Canadian science fiction TV series Continuum.

They worked together in the action thriller Tactical Force (2011), in which Doig portrayed an LAPD SWAT officer and Shanks played the role of a Russian mob leader.

[12] Doig and Shanks are actively involved as charity fundraising partners for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.