Jewel Staite
Jewel Staite
Jewel Belair Staiteis a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Kaylee Frye in FOX television series Fireflyand its spin-off theatrical film Serenity, and as Dr. Jennifer Keller on Sci-Fi Channel's science-fiction television series Stargate Atlantis. Staite has also starred in her youth as Catalina in Space Casesand as "Becca" Fisher in Flash Forward, and more recently as Raquel Westbrook in the Canadian drama The L.A. Complexand Caroline Swift in AMC's crime drama The Killing...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth2 June 1982
CityWhite Rock, Canada
CountryCanada
I think 'Teenage Wasteland' was one of those cult hits like 'My So-Called Life', something that came along and got a lot of viewers and then somehow fell into a bad timeslot that nobody ever watched, and then the network pulled the plug prematurely.
'Firefly' was and always will be such a positive thing for me. I hold a lot of really good memories associated to that show.
I had an amazing time on 'Stargate: Atlantis', and a really great run on that show, which was shot in my hometown. It was kind of a dream job.
I have no desire to direct at all. I know how much pressure it is, and, trust me, it's so much easier and so much more fun to be an actor.
The fact of the matter is that we're all aging, and there's this stigma that older actresses don't work as much as younger actresses, and I don't think that's true anymore.