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Jewel Staite

Jewel Staite

Birthday: 1982-06-02 | Place of Birth: White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982) is a Canadian actress who portrayed Catalina in Space Cases, Kaylee Frye in Firefly and Serenity, and Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis. Most recently, she starred as Raquel Westbrook in the Canadian drama, The L.A. Complex.Staite was born in White Rock, British Columbia. The youngest of seven children, she modeled as a child and has acted since age six. She has stated that she is of British, Irish, French Canadian, and Iroquois ancestry. Staite attended the Vancouver Film School and worked at the Vancouver Youth Theatre. She married actor Matt Anderson on April 25, 2003. On December 13, 2011, she announced they were divorcing in a post on her food blog. Staite played Kaylee Frye in the short-lived space westerntelevision seriesFirefly and its subsequent 2005 film, Serenity. She wrote a chapter in the book Finding Serenity, called "Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite On Firefly".She played Heidi Gotts in the television series Wonderfalls, and appeared in a Season Three episode of The X-Files.Staite played the role of head medical doctor Jennifer Keller in the Stargate SG-1 spinoff Stargate Atlantis,making her the third actor from the Firefly series to move on to appear in a Stargate series (the first being Adam Baldwin, who had a brief role as a colonel in the Stargate SG-1 Season Seven episode "Heroes", and the second being Morena Baccarin, who played Adria, the main villain in the tenth season of SG-1), and the second to take a recurring role. She replaced Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett). In the fifth season her character was changed from recurring status to part of the main cast. Before taking on the role as Dr. Keller she previously played the Wraith child Ellia in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Instinct".She also appeared in the 2010 Sci-Fi film, Mothman, under direction from Sheldon Wilson. Staite guest starred in an episode of Warehouse 13 as the love interest of Sheldon (played by Sean Maher, who played Jewel's love interest in Firefly). She also did voices in the animated TV series Mummies Alive! and Sabrina: The Animated Series for DIC Entertainment. As of 2012, Staite was a series regular on The L.A. Complex, in which she portrayed Raquel Westbrook, a struggling actress. The show aired in Canada on MuchMusic and in the U.S. on The CW. She also appeared recently in an episode of The Listener.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Family Law

as    Abigail 'Abby' Bianchi

2017
Same Time Next Week

as    Sarah

2017
The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

as    Stella Williams

2016
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

as    Cassie Cranston

2015
A Frosty Affair

as    Kate Carter

2013
The Christmas Ornament

as    Jenna

2012
The L.A. Complex

as    Raquel Westbrook

2011
The Pact

as    Anna

2011
Doomsday Prophecy

as    Brook Calvin

2010
Call Me Mrs. Miracle

as    Holly Wilson

2010
Mothman

as    Katharine

2008
The Forgotten Ones

as    Liz

2006
Done the Impossible

as    Self

2005
Widow on the Hill

as    Jenny Cavanaugh

2005
Serenity

as    Kaywinnet Lee 'Kaylee' Frye

2004
Stargate Atlantis

as    Jennifer Keller

2002
Firefly

as    Kaylee Frye

1995
Flash Forward

as    Becca Fisher

1992
The Odyssey

as    Labelia