Jewel Staite

Jewel Staite

Birthday: 1982-06-02

Place of birth: White Rock, British Columbia, Canada

Also known as: Jewel, Jewel Belair Staite

imdb_id: nm0821612

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.

Played in movies:

Serenity

Score: 7.4

CC

Score: 6.9

Same Time Next Week

Score: 6.6

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

Score: 6.4

Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain

Score: 6.2

The Christmas Ornament

Score: 6.1

Liar, Liar

Score: 6.0

Done the Impossible

Score: 5.9

A Frosty Affair

Score: 5.8

Call Me Mrs. Miracle

Score: 5.8

Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories

Score: 5.7

Widow on the Hill

Score: 5.5

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

Score: 5.4

Cheats

Score: 5.4

She Who Must Burn

Score: 5.3

Browncoats Unite: Firefly 10th Anniversary Special

Score: 5.2

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

Score: 5.2

The Pact

Score: 5.1

Carpool

Score: 5.1

The Forgotten Ones

Score: 5.1

The Only Way Out

Score: 5.0

Not With His Wife

Score: 4.5

Doomsday Prophecy

Score: 4.1

Mothman

Score: 3.8

Damaged Care

Score: 0.0

Party Mania

Score: 0.0

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

EP Daily

Score: 8.5

The Good Doctor

Score: 8.5

The X-Files

Score: 8.4

Firefly

Score: 8.3

Supernatural

Score: 8.3

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Score: 8.2

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Score: 8.2

Higher Ground

Score: 8.1

Stargate Atlantis

Score: 8.0

Stargate Atlantis

Score: 8.0

Castle

Score: 8.0

The Killing

Score: 7.8

Resident Alien

Score: 7.8

Wonderfalls

Score: 7.7

Dead Like Me

Score: 7.7

Huff

Score: 7.7

Warehouse 13

Score: 7.7

The Order

Score: 7.7

The Magicians

Score: 7.6

The Magicians

Score: 7.6

Family Law

Score: 7.4

Blindspot

Score: 7.4

DC's Legends of Tomorrow

Score: 7.3

The Odyssey

Score: 7.3

Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

Score: 7.2

Quantum Leap

Score: 7.1

Flash Forward

Score: 7.0

Space Cases

Score: 7.0

Cold Squad

Score: 6.9

Take Two

Score: 6.9

Seven Days

Score: 6.9

The Listener

Score: 6.8

Con Man

Score: 6.6

Motive

Score: 6.4

State of Syn

Score: 6.3

So Weird

Score: 6.1

Da Vinci's Inquest

Score: 5.8

Just Deal

Score: 5.0

Dialing Home

Score: 5.0

The L.A. Complex

Score: 5.0

The Case That Haunts Me

Score: 4.7

2gether: The Series

Score: 0.0

Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy

Score: 0.0