Jewel Staite

Known for ActingBorn 1982-06-02 (age 44)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Here's How It Was: The Making of 'Firefly'

2gether: The Series

The Good Doctor

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Supernatural

Firefly

The X-Files

Higher Ground

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Stargate Atlantis

Castle

Resident Alien

The Killing

The Order

Warehouse 13

The Magicians

Huff

Dead Like Me

Wonderfalls

Blindspot

Family Law

Flash Forward

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Serenity

Quantum Leap

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

The Odyssey

Space Cases

CC

Take Two

Cold Squad

Damaged Care

The Listener

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

Seven Days

Con Man

Same Time Next Week

Motive

So Weird

The Only Way Out

State of Syn

Da Vinci's Inquest

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

The Christmas Ornament

Just Deal

Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

Done the Impossible