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Jewel Staite
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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

5.021

The Forgotten Ones
2009-03-26

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

0

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

Done the Impossible

5.9

Done the Impossible
2006-07-28

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

6.214

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

3.8

Mothman
2010-04-24

7.362

Serenity
2005-09-25

Doomsday Prophecy

4.133

Doomsday Prophecy
2011-08-13

5

The Pact
2011-01-24

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

5.9

Call Me Mrs. Miracle
2010-11-27

Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special

5.467

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

5.255

Carpool
1996-08-23

The Christmas Ornament

6

The Christmas Ornament
2013-11-16

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

6.7

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

5.391

Cheats
2002-10-31

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

5.127

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

A Frosty Affair

5.589

A Frosty Affair
2015-10-03

7

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

Widow on the Hill

6

Widow on the Hill
2005-01-24

Same Time Next Week

6.491

Same Time Next Week
2017-08-05

She Who Must Burn

5.375

She Who Must Burn
2015-07-26

6.643

CC
2018-09-22

The Only Way Out

6.5

The Only Way Out
1993-12-19

Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories

6.071

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

5.7

Liar, Liar
1993-01-24

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

6

Here's How It Was: The Making of 'Firefly'
2017-09-11

5.5

Roughing It
2002-03-16

8.2

Higher Ground
2000-01-14

0

EP Daily
1997-09-20

7.1

Space Cases
1996-03-02

8.312

Supernatural
2005-09-13

Stargate Atlantis

8.038

Stargate Atlantis
2004-07-15

6.6

So Weird
1999-01-18

7.683

Wonderfalls
2004-03-12

5

Dialing Home
2017-11-17

Da Vinci's Inquest

6.182

Da Vinci's Inquest
1998-10-07

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

8.185

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

8.371

The X-Files
1993-09-10

6.831

Seven Days
1998-10-07

7.5

Flash Forward
1995-12-14

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

8.5

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
1999-01-08

7.211

Family Law
2021-09-16

The L.A. Complex

5.025

The L.A. Complex
2012-01-10

7.834

The Killing
2011-04-03

7.694

Huff
2004-11-07

6

Just Deal
2000-09-23

7.685

Warehouse 13
2009-07-07

7.967

Castle
2009-03-09

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

7.254

DC's Legends of Tomorrow
2016-01-21

7.376

Blindspot
2015-09-21

8.341

Firefly
2002-09-20

Stargate Atlantis

8.038

Stargate Atlantis
2004-07-15

6.846

Take Two
2018-06-21

7.646

Dead Like Me
2003-06-27

7.597

The Magicians
2015-12-16

6.925

Quantum Leap
2022-09-19

7.597

The Magicians
2015-12-16

The Good Doctor

8.455

The Good Doctor
2017-09-25

7.614

The Order
2019-03-07

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

8.185

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

6.4

Motive
2013-02-03

The Case That Haunts Me

5.2

The Case That Haunts Me
2018-10-25

7.1

Cold Squad
1998-01-23

5

State of Syn
2013-11-07

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

7.2

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997-05-25

6.84

The Listener
2009-06-04

6.543

Con Man
2015-09-30

2gether: The Series

9

2gether: The Series
2000-08-15

7.188

The Odyssey
1992-03-09

7.792

Resident Alien
2021-01-27

Heritage Minutes

7.3

Heritage Minutes
1991-03-31