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.
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The Odyssey
as Labelia
Episodes: 39
First Aired: Mar 09, 1992
Stargate Atlantis
as Jennifer Keller
Episodes: 32
First Aired: Jul 15, 2004
Family Law
as Abigail 'Abby' Bianchi
Episodes: 30
First Aired: Sep 16, 2021
Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
as Sally Prentiss
Episodes: 27
First Aired: Jan 08, 1999
Flash Forward
as Becca Fisher
Episodes: 26
First Aired: Dec 14, 1995
Higher Ground
as Daisy Lipenowski
Episodes: 22
First Aired: Jan 14, 2000
The L.A. Complex
as Raquel Westbrook
Episodes: 19
First Aired: Jan 10, 2012
Space Cases
as Catalina
Episodes: 14
First Aired: Mar 02, 1996
Da Vinci's Inquest
as Gabriella Da Vinci
Episodes: 14
First Aired: Oct 07, 1998
Firefly
as Kaylee Frye
Episodes: 11
First Aired: Sep 20, 2002
Just Deal
as Laurel
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Sep 23, 2000
State of Syn
as Annika Drake
Episodes: 8
First Aired: Nov 07, 2013
The Killing
as Caroline Swift
Episodes: 5
First Aired: Apr 03, 2011
Wonderfalls
as Heidi Gotts
Episodes: 4
First Aired: Mar 12, 2004
The Magicians
as Phyllis
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Dec 16, 2015
Supernatural
as Amy Pond
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 13, 2005
The Order
as Renee Marand
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Mar 07, 2019
Con Man
as Fan Getting Autographs
Episodes: 2
First Aired: Sep 30, 2015
Stargate Atlantis
as Ellia
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 15, 2004
So Weird
as Callie Snow
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 18, 1999
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
as Kelly
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 1992
The X-Files
as Amy Jacobs
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 10, 1993
Seven Days
as Molly - Psychic
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 07, 1998
Huff
as Carolyn
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Nov 07, 2004
Warehouse 13
as Loretta
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 07, 2009
Castle
as Erin Cherloff
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Mar 09, 2009
DC's Legends of Tomorrow
as Dr. Bryce
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 21, 2016
Blindspot
as Kiva Garen
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 21, 2015
Take Two
as Jackie Jarvis / Angela Truman
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 21, 2018
Dead Like Me
as Goth Girl
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 27, 2003
Quantum Leap
as Naomi Harvey
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 19, 2022
The Good Doctor
as Stella
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 25, 2017
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
as Cody
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 1992
The Listener
as Lori Black
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jun 04, 2009
Cold Squad
as Thora Andrews
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jan 23, 1998
The Case That Haunts Me
as Detective Penny Hart
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Oct 25, 2018
Motive
as Bally Anderson
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Feb 03, 2013
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
as Carly / Shannon (segment "The Fine Line")
Episodes: 1
First Aired: May 25, 1997
2gether: The Series
as Josie
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Aug 15, 2000
Dialing Home
as Self
Episodes: 3
First Aired: Nov 17, 2017
EP Daily
as Herself
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Sep 20, 1997
Stargate SG-1
as Doctor Jennifer Keller / Herself
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Jul 27, 1997
The Magicians
Episodes: 1
First Aired: Dec 16, 2015
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