Jewel Staite Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her roles as Catalina in Space Cases (1996–1997), Kaylee Frye in Firefly (2002–2003) and its spin-off film Serenity (2005), and Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis (2007–2009). Staite has also starred as Raquel Westbrook in the Canadian drama The L.A. Complex (2012), and Caroline Swift in the crime drama, The Killing (2013-2014).
Full Name
Jewel Staite
Net Worth
$8 Million
Date Of Birth
June 2, 1982
Place Of Birth
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Height
1.66 m
Occupation
Actress
Profession
Voice Actor
Education
Vancouver Film School
Nationality
Canadian
Spouse
Charlie Ritchie, Matthew Kevin Anderson
Children
Wilder Cathcart Ritchie
Nicknames
Jewel Staite, Staite, Jewel
Twitter
IMDB
Nominations
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role, Gemini Award for Best Performance in a Children's or Youth Program or Series
Movies
Serenity, How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, Doomsday Prophecy, Call Me Mrs. Miracle, Widow on the Hill, After Dusk They Come, Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain, Mothman, The Christmas Ornament, Cheats, She Who Must Burn, 40 Below and Falling, Damaged Care, Undercover Wife, Carpool, The Wr...
TV Shows
The L.A. Complex, Stargate Atlantis, Da Vinci's Inquest, Firefly, Just Deal, Higher Ground, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Flash Forward, Space Cases, The Odyssey, Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy
Star Sign
Gemini
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Trademark
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Her smile
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Strawberry blonde hair
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Quote
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If it were up to me, how would the characters' relationships conclude in Serenity 2? Okay. Hypothetically speaking only. River and Zoe really hit it off, fall in love, and decide to form their own renegade girls-who-kick-ass space team and leave us in the dust; Mal realizes he's more destroyed over Wash's death than he ever thought and spends the rest of his days wearing Hawaiian shirts and drinking booze out of the engine; Simon and Kaylee have a set of genius triplets and turn the ship into a cocker spaniel search-and-rescue with "crazy Grandpa Mal" still at the helm cradling toy dinosaurs; and Inara finally realizes the potential in Jayne as a male companion, loans him a toga, and takes him back to the training house where they become King and Companion Queen...you know you want that sequel! [writing on her blog]
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I love acting because it allows me to be as many different people as my imagination can conceptualize, and I can spill my guts, bare my soul and be a bitch without actually offending anyone in the real world.
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"It was a tough job getting mouth to mouth from David Duchovny but somebody had to do it". Commenting about her appearance on The X-Files (1993) episode "Oubliette" (1995).
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Fact
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 33, a son named Wilder Cathcart Ritchie on December 9, 2015. Child's father is her fiancé, Charlie Ritchie.
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Became engaged to her longtime boyfriend Charlie Ritchie in May 2015. They have a son together.
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Her character on 'Supernatural' shared the same name as the Companion of Doctor Who (Amy Pond).
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Is of British, Irish, French Canadian, and Iroquois descent.
In 2006, she appeared at the Armageddon Expo in Wellington, New Zealand.
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She played the role of "Catalina" on Space Cases (1996), a show that featured a space pirate named "Reaver" played by Chip Chuipka. She played "Kaylee" on Firefly (2002) which featured a race of people called "Reavers", also with malicious intentions.
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Was featured on the preteen video/board game "Party Mania".
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Gained 20 lbs for the part of Kaylee in the TV series Firefly (2002). When the show was later adapted into a motion picture (Serenity (2005)), the show had been over for a little while and she had lost the weight. She was told that they weren't going to give anyone else the part anyway, so she didn't have to re-gain the weight.
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In Vancouver she joined in the ground-breaking ceremony for an AIDS memorial where the names of AIDS victims in the area will be permanently memorialized.
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Had to move from her hometown of Vancouver to Toronto during her two year run on the Disney show Flash Forward (1996), one of the better shows for young people of the 1990s.
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Her favorite hobbies are traveling and writing.
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Has been involved with AIDS Project since her uncle died of the disease.
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Is the youngest of seven children and lives just three blocks away from her parents in Vancouver.
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Originally auditioned for the role of Rosie on Space Cases (1996), which went to Paige Christina. She later got the role of Catalina.
