Jewel Staite

Acting

Jewel Staite

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
Jun 02, 1982 (43 years old)

Jewel Staite

Known For

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling
0h 22m
Movie 2023

LEGO Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling

After finding his journal, Chaos Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm recalls...

Family Law
TV Show 2021

Family Law

Lawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail Bianchi is struggling to put...

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin
0h 1m
Movie 2021

Heritage Minutes: The Discovery of Insulin

Scientists Banting, Best, Collip and Macleod at the University of...

CC
0h 14m
Movie 2018

CC

An AID (Artificially Intelligent Device) nanny named CC follows her...

Same Time Next Week
1h 23m
Movie 2017

Same Time Next Week

Sara deals with her grief by trying to complete her...

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit
1h 25m
Movie 2017

The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit

A woman mysteriously wakes up in a hotel handcuffed to...

Not With His Wife
1h 31m
Movie 2016

Not With His Wife

Forensic accountant Monica Bolland tracks down white-collar criminals, but when...

A Frosty Affair
1h 30m
Movie 2015

A Frosty Affair

A rom-com about the adventures of a small town teacher,...

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town
1h 42m
Movie 2015

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

In high school Cassie Cranston was slut-shamed out of the...

She Who Must Burn
1h 30m
Movie 2015

She Who Must Burn

When Angela refuses to leave her planned-parenthood clinic after it...

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.