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
'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 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.
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 sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.
My job is never boring. It's always new, exciting, and challenging, and I get a rush every time I go to work. I'm the luckiest person on the planet to be able to do what I love for a living.
The only real difference between shooting 'Firefly' and 'Serenity' was that on 'Serenity,' we had a lot more freedom with time. When you're shooting a television show, you usually have anywhere between six and nine pages of script to shoot a day, and only twelve hours to do it. But with 'Serenity,' we could shoot one scene all day long.
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.