Jewel Staite
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| Jewel Staite | |
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 Jewel Staite in 2005 |
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| Born | June 2, 1982 White Rock, BC, Canada |
| Occupation | actress |
| Years active | 1988—present |
| Spouse(s) | Matt Anderson |
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Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982) is a Canadian actress, best known for her roles as Kaylee Frye in Firefly & Serenity, and as Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Personal life
Staite was born in White Rock, British Columbia. The youngest of seven children, she modelled as a child and has acted since age six. She attended the Vancouver Film School and worked at the Vancouver Youth Theatre. Jewel married Matt Anderson on April 25, 2003.
Staite has worked with the Dyslexia Foundation and several AIDS charities.
[edit] Career
One of Staite's most famous roles is as Kaylee Frye in the short-lived science fiction/western television series Firefly and its subsequent 2005 film, Serenity. She also wrote a chapter in the book Finding Serenity, called "Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite On Firefly". She also played Heidi Gotts, the antagonist in the TV series Wonderfalls, which, like Firefly, was cancelled by FOX.
She currently plays the role of head of medicine Dr. 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 and the second being Morena Baccarin), 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.[1] Before taking on the role as Dr. Keller she previously played the Wraith child Ellia in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Instinct".
Other television work includes:
- Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1992)
- X-Files: "Oubliette" (1995)
- Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995)
- Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Guest Star) (1996)
- Flash Forward (1996)
- Space Cases (1996)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997)
- Da Vinci's Inquest (1998)
- Higher Ground (2000)
- Just Deal (2002)
- Firefly (2002)
- Cheats (2002)
- Dead Like Me (2003)
- Wonderfalls (2004)
- Serenity (2005)
- Stargate Atlantis (2007)
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