Name
Jewel Staite
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1982-06-02 (44 years old)
Place of Birth
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
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.
Known For
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- 2021 Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin as Nurse Anna
- 2006 Done the Impossible as Self
- 1995 Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain as Samantha
- 2010 Mothman as Katharine
- 2005 Serenity as Kaywinnet Lee 'Kaylee' Frye
- 2011 Doomsday Prophecy as Brook Calvin
- 2011 The Pact as Anna
- 2010 Call Me Mrs. Miracle as Holly Wilson
- 2012 Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special as Self
- 1996 Carpool as Soap Opera Actress
- 2013 The Christmas Ornament as Jenna
- 2023 LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling as Ellie Sattler (voice)
- 2002 Cheats as Teddy Blue
- 2015 How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town as Cassie Cranston
- 2015 A Frosty Affair as Kate Carter
- 2002 Damaged Care as Bryanna
- 2016 Not With His Wife as Monica Boland
- 2017 The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit as Stella Williams
- 2005 Widow on the Hill as Jenny Cavanaugh
- 2017 Same Time Next Week as Sarah
- 2015 She Who Must Burn as Margaret
- 2018 CC as CC
- 1993 The Only Way Out as Alexandra Carlisle
- 1991 Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories as Jennifer Lanahan
- 1993 Liar, Liar as Dorianna
- 2017 Here's How It Was: The Making of 'Firefly' as Self
- 2002 Roughing It as Susy Clemens
- 2000 Higher Ground ( 22 episodes ) as Daisy Lipenowski
- 1997 EP Daily ( 1 episode ) as Herself
- 1996 Space Cases ( 14 episodes ) as Catalina
- 2005 Supernatural ( 1 episode ) as Amy Pond
- 2004 Stargate Atlantis ( 1 episode ) as Ellia
- 1999 So Weird ( 1 episode ) as Callie Snow
- 2004 Wonderfalls ( 4 episodes ) as Heidi Gotts
- 2017 Dialing Home ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1998 Da Vinci's Inquest ( 14 episodes ) as Gabriella Da Vinci
- 1992 Are You Afraid of the Dark? ( 1 episode ) as Kelly
- 1993 The X-Files ( 1 episode ) as Amy Jacobs
- 1998 Seven Days ( 1 episode ) as Molly - Psychic
- 1995 Flash Forward ( 26 episodes ) as Becca Fisher
- 1999 Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy ( 27 episodes ) as Sally Prentiss
- 2021 Family Law ( 40 episodes ) as Abigail 'Abby' Bianchi
- 2012 The L.A. Complex ( 19 episodes ) as Raquel Westbrook
- 2011 The Killing ( 5 episodes ) as Caroline Swift
- 2004 Huff ( 1 episode ) as Carolyn
- 2000 Just Deal ( 8 episodes ) as Laurel
- 2009 Warehouse 13 ( 1 episode ) as Loretta
- 2009 Castle ( 1 episode ) as Erin Cherloff
- 2016 DC's Legends of Tomorrow ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Bryce
- 2015 Blindspot ( 1 episode ) as Kiva Garen
- 2002 Firefly ( 11 episodes ) as Kaylee Frye
- 2004 Stargate Atlantis ( 32 episodes ) as Jennifer Keller
- 2018 Take Two ( 1 episode ) as Jackie Jarvis / Angela Truman
- 2003 Dead Like Me ( 1 episode ) as Goth Girl
- 2015 The Magicians ( 3 episodes ) as Phyllis
- 2022 Quantum Leap ( 1 episode ) as Naomi Harvey
- 2015 The Magicians ( 1 episode )
- 2017 The Good Doctor ( 1 episode ) as Stella
- 2019 The Order ( 2 episodes ) as Renee Marand
- 1992 Are You Afraid of the Dark? ( 1 episode ) as Cody
- 2013 State of Syn ( 8 episodes ) as Annika Drake
- 2009 The Listener ( 1 episode ) as Lori Black
- 1998 Cold Squad ( 1 episode ) as Thora Andrews
- 2018 The Case That Haunts Me ( 1 episode ) as Detective Penny Hart
- 2013 Motive ( 1 episode ) as Bally Anderson
- 1997 Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction ( 1 episode ) as Carly / Shannon (segment "The Fine Line")
- 2015 Con Man ( 2 episodes ) as Fan Getting Autographs
- 2000 2gether: The Series ( 1 episode ) as Josie
- 1992 The Odyssey ( 2 episodes ) as Labelia
- 2021 Resident Alien ( 4 episodes ) as Jules Gardner
- 1991 Heritage Minutes ( 1 episode ) as Infirmière Anna
