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Jewel Staite
Homepage
http://jewelstaite.com/
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1982-06-02,White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

The Forgotten Ones

5.1

The Forgotten Ones
2008-11-08

Done the Impossible

6.2

Done the Impossible
2006-07-28

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

6.3

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain
1995-11-03

4

Mothman
2010-04-24

7.378

Serenity
2005-09-25

Doomsday Prophecy

4.081

Doomsday Prophecy
2011-08-13

5.2

The Pact
2011-01-24

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

5.8

Call Me Mrs. Miracle
2010-11-27

Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special

6

Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special
2012-11-11

The Christmas Ornament

6.2

The Christmas Ornament
2013-11-16

5.355

Cheats
2002-10-31

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

5.16

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town
2015-09-19

A Frosty Affair

5.6

A Frosty Affair
2015-10-03

0

Damaged Care
2002-05-26

Not With His Wife

4.5

Not With His Wife
2016-05-18

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

5.4

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit
2017-06-02

Same Time Next Week

6.7

Same Time Next Week
2017-08-05

Widow on the Hill

4.7

Widow on the Hill
2005-01-24

She Who Must Burn

5.2

She Who Must Burn
2015-07-26

6.667

CC
2018-09-22

The Only Way Out

5

The Only Way Out
1993-12-19

Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories

5.7

Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories
1991-11-05

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

0

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
2021-05-17

0

Party Mania
1993-04-16

5

Carpool
1996-08-23

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

6.5

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling
2023-10-10

8

Higher Ground
2000-01-14

6

So Weird
1999-01-18

8.295

Supernatural
2005-09-13

Stargate Atlantis

8.002

Stargate Atlantis
2004-07-15

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

8.168

Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992-08-15

Da Vinci's Inquest

6

Da Vinci's Inquest
1998-10-07

7.996

Castle
2009-03-09

10

EP Daily
1997-09-20

7.7

Space Cases
1996-03-02

7.683

Wonderfalls
2004-03-12

8.4

The X-Files
1993-09-10

6.8

Seven Days
1998-10-07

7.866

The Killing
2011-04-03

8

Flash Forward
1995-12-14

7

The Odyssey
1992-03-09

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

0

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
1999-01-08

7.724

Huff
2004-11-07

5

Just Deal
2000-09-23

7.669

Warehouse 13
2009-07-07

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

7.306

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016-01-21

The L.A. Complex

5

The L.A. Complex
2012-01-10

Stargate Atlantis

8.002

Stargate Atlantis
2004-07-15

7.375

Blindspot
2015-09-21

7.616

The Magicians
2015-12-16

The Good Doctor

8.5

The Good Doctor
2017-09-25

7.707

The Order
2019-03-07

6.6

Con Man
2015-09-30

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

8.168

Are You Afraid of the Dark?
1992-08-15

6.917

The Listener
2009-06-04

7.1

Cold Squad
1998-01-23

10

State of Syn
2013-11-07

The Case That Haunts Me

8

The Case That Haunts Me
2018-10-25

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

7.2

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997-05-25

6.407

Motive
2013-02-03

5

Dialing Home
2017-11-17

7.8

Family Law
2021-09-16

8.243

Stargate SG-1
1997-07-27

8.334

Firefly
2002-09-20

7.055

Take Two
2018-06-21

7.655

Dead Like Me
2003-06-27

7.202

Quantum Leap
2022-09-19

7.616

The Magicians
2015-12-16