Early life

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.

Career

Staite began her career as a child actress, with appearances in television movies such as CBC's Liar, Liar in 1993 (which was later reaired in the United States the same year on CBS), and ABC's The Only Way Out. In 1995, Staite had a key guest starring role in the third season episode of The X-Files, "Oubliette".

Staite's first co-starring role on a television series was as Catalina, the ship's engineer, in the first season of Nickelodeon science fiction television series Space Cases in 1996. This was immediately followed by her role as Rebecca "Becca" Fisher on the 1995-97 Disney Channel series Flash Forward, a series in which Staite was the co-lead with Ben Foster. In 2000, she was cast in a main role on the FOX Family Channel drama series Higher Ground. She was a voice actress in the animated TV series Mummies Alive! and Sabrina: The Animated Series for DIC Entertainment.

Staite played Kaylee Frye in the short-lived space western television series Firefly and its subsequent 2005 film, Serenity. She wrote a chapter in the book Finding Serenity, called "Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite On Firefly". She played the recurring role of Heidi Gotts in the television series Wonderfalls in 2004.

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. In 2010, Staite guest starred in an episode of Warehouse 13 as the love interest of Sheldon (played by Sean Maher, who played her love interest in Firefly), and in 2011, she guest-starred on an episode of Supernatural as a former love-interest of Sam's.

In 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 CTV and MuchMusic and in the U.S. on The CW. She also appeared recently in an episode of The Listener. Staite appeared in 10 episodes of the AMC crime drama, The Killing, as Detective Stephen Holder's girlfriend Caroline Swift, from 2013-14.

Personal life

Staite was married to actor Matt Anderson from 2003 to 2011. In May 2015, she became engaged to her boyfriend Charlie Ritchie. Later the same month, she announced she was pregnant with her first child, a boy. On December 9, 2015 she announced the birth of her son Wilder Cathcart Ritchie.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain	Samantha
1996	Carpool	Soap Opera Actress
2002	Cheats	Teddy Blue
2005	Serenity	Kaylee
2009	After Dusk They Come	Liz	Straight-to-video
2011	Pact, TheThe Pact	Anna	Short film
2015	She Who Must Burn	Margaret
2015	40 Below and Falling	Kate Carter
2016	How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town	Cassie Cranston

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories	Jennifer Lanahan	TV film
1992	Odyssey, TheThe Odyssey	Labelia	Episode: "The Believers"
1993	Liar, Liar	Dorianna	TV film; aired in the U.S. as Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter
1993	Only Way Out, TheThe Only Way Out	Alexandra Carlisle	TV film
1994	Odyssey, TheThe Odyssey	Labelia	Episode: "The Prophecy"
1994	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Kelly	Episode: "The Tale of Watcher's Woods"
1995	Are You Afraid of the Dark?	Cody	Episode: "The Tale of the Unfinished Painting"
1995	X-Files, TheThe X-Files	Amy Jacobs	Episode: "Oubliette"
1996	Prisoner of Zenda, Inc., TheThe Prisoner of Zenda, Inc.	Theresa	TV film
1996	Space Cases	Catalina	Main role (season 1), 15 episodes
1996-97	Flash Forward	Rebecca "Becca" Fisher	Lead role, 26 episodes
1997-99	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show	Tiara VanHorn	Recurring role, 5 episodes
1998-2001	Da Vinci's Inquest	Gabriella Da Vinci	Recurring role, 13 episodes
1999	So Weird	Callie Snow	Episode: "Siren"
1999	Sabrina: The Animated Series		Voice role, 4 episodes
1999	Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy	Sally Prentiss	Episodes: "Happy Trails", "Fools for Love"
2000	Higher Ground	Daisy Lipenowski	Main role, 22 episodes
2001	Immortal, TheThe Immortal	Danielle Jenkins	Episode: "Learning Curve"
2001	2gether: The Series	Josie	Episode: "Kiss"
2001	Seven Days	Molly	Episode: "Empty Quiver"
2002	Roughing It	Susan Olivia Clemens	TV film
2002	Damaged Care	Bryanna (15-20 years)	TV film
2002	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Carly / Shannon	Episode: "Second Sight"
2002	Just Deal	Laurel	Recurring role, 8 episodes
2002-03	Firefly	Kaylee Frye	Main role, 14 episodes
2003	Dead Like Me	Goth Girl	Episode: "Rest in Peace"
2004	Huff	Carolyn	Episode: Pilot
2004	Cold Squad	Thora Andrews	Episode: "Girlfriend in a Closet"
2004	Wonderfalls	Heidi Gotts	Recurring role, 4 episodes
2005	Widow on the Hill	Jenny Cavanaugh	TV film
2005	Stargate Atlantis	Ellia	Episode: "Instinct"
2007-09	Stargate Atlantis	Dr. Jennifer Keller	Recurring role (season 4), main role (season 5), 33 episodes
2010	Mothman	Katharine Grant	TV film
2010	Warehouse 13	Loretta	Episode: "Mild Mannered"
2010	Call Me Mrs. Miracle	Holly	TV film
2011	Doomsday Prophecy	Brook Calvin	TV film
2011	Supernatural	Amy Pond	Episode: "The Girl Next Door"
2012	L.A. Complex, TheThe L.A. Complex	Raquel Westbrook	Main role, 19 episodes
2012-13	Animism: The Gods' Lake	Melody Ravensfall	Main role, 6 episodes
2013	Listener, TheThe Listener	Lori Black	Episode: "Blast from the Past"
2013	Christmas Ornament, TheThe Christmas Ornament	Jenna	TV film
2013	State of Syn	Annika Drake	TV shorts, 6 episodes
2013-14	Killing, TheThe Killing	Caroline Swift	Recurring role, 10 episodes
2016	Legends of Tomorrow	Dr. Bryce
2016	Castle	Erin Cherloff	Episode: "Much Ado About Murder"
TBA	Blown Cover	Monica Boland	TV film, filming

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