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Jewel Staite

Jewel Staite

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.

Personal information

Birthday

1982-06-02

Birth Place

White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Movies and TV shows :

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2gether: The Series

2000

0.0

TV
A Frosty Affair

A Frosty Affair

2015

5.6

Movie
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Are You Afraid of the Dark?

1992

8.2

TV
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Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

1997

7.2

TV
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Blindspot

2015

7.4

TV
Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special

Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special

2012

6.0

Movie
Call Me Mrs. Miracle

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

2010

5.9

Movie
Carpool

Carpool

1996

5.0

Movie
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Castle

2009

8.0

TV
CC

CC

2018

6.2

Movie
Cheats

Cheats

2002

5.4

Movie
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Cold Squad

1998

7.2

TV
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Con Man

2015

6.6

TV
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Da Vinci's Inquest

1998

5.6

TV
Damaged Care

Damaged Care

2002

0.0

Movie
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DC's Legends of Tomorrow

2016

7.3

TV
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Dead Like Me

2003

7.6

TV
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Dialing Home

2017

5.0

TV
Done the Impossible

Done the Impossible

2006

6.2

Movie
Doomsday Prophecy

Doomsday Prophecy

2011

4.1

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EP Daily

1997

10.0

TV
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Family Law

2021

7.7

TV
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Firefly

2002

8.3

TV
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Flash Forward

1995

8.0

TV
Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

1995

6.2

Movie
Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

2021

0.0

Movie
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Higher Ground

2000

8.0

TV
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

2015

5.2

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Huff

2004

7.7

TV
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Just Deal

2000

5.0

TV
LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

2023

6.3

Movie
Mothman

Mothman

2010

3.9

Movie
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Motive

2013

6.4

TV
Not With His Wife

Not With His Wife

2016

4.5

Movie
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Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

1999

0.0

TV
Party Mania

Party Mania

1993

0.0

Movie
Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories

Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories

1991

5.7

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Quantum Leap

2022

7.2

TV
Same Time Next Week

Same Time Next Week

2017

6.7

Movie
Serenity

Serenity

2005

7.4

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Seven Days

1998

6.8

TV
She Who Must Burn

She Who Must Burn

2015

5.2

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So Weird

1999

6.0

TV
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Space Cases

1996

7.0

TV
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Stargate Atlantis

2004

8.0

TV
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Stargate SG-1

1997

8.3

TV
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State of Syn

2013

10.0

TV
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Supernatural

2005

8.3

TV
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Take Two

2018

6.9

TV
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The Case That Haunts Me

2018

8.0

TV
The Christmas Ornament

The Christmas Ornament

2013

6.1

Movie
The Forgotten Ones

The Forgotten Ones

2008

5.1

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The Good Doctor

2017

8.5

TV
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The Killing

2011

7.9

TV
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The L.A. Complex

2012

5.0

TV
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The Listener

2009

6.9

TV
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The Magicians

2015

7.6

TV
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The Odyssey

1992

7.2

TV
The Only Way Out

The Only Way Out

1993

5.0

Movie
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The Order

2019

7.7

TV
The Pact

The Pact

2011

5.2

Movie
The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

2017

5.4

Movie
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The X-Files

1993

8.4

TV
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Warehouse 13

2009

7.7

TV
Widow on the Hill

Widow on the Hill

2005

4.6

Movie
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Wonderfalls

2004

7.7

TV