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 LA ComplexStaite 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 shortlived space westerntelevision seriesFirefly and its subsequent 2005 film Serenity She wrote a chapter in the book Finding Serenity called Kaylee Speaks Jewel Staite On FireflyShe played Heidi Gotts in the television series Wonderfalls and appeared in a Season Three episode of The XFilesStaite played the role of head medical doctor Jennifer Keller in the Stargate SG1 spinoff Stargate Atlantismaking 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 SG1 Season Seven episode Heroes and the second being Morena Baccarin who played Adria the main villain in the tenth season of SG1 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 InstinctShe also appeared in the 2010 SciFi 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 Jewels 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 LA Complex in which she portrayed Raquel Westbrook a struggling actress The show aired in Canada on MuchMusic and in the US on The CW She also appeared recently in an episode of The Listener