Jewel Staite

Jewel Staite is a Canadian actress who started as a child model and began acting at age six. She trained at the Vancouver Film School and the Vancouver Youth Theatre. As a child actor she had high profile roles in television movies including Liar, Liar (1993) and The Only Way Out, and she guest starred on The X-Files in 1995. Her early series work included Catalina on Space Cases and Rebecca Fisher on Flash Forward. She became known for playing Kaylee Frye in Firefly and its film Serenity (2005), and for Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis. Later roles included Raquel Westbrook on The L.A. Complex and Caroline Swift on The Killing. She appeared in the 2010 film Mothman, voiced characters in animated series, and wrote a chapter for Finding Serenity. She has also starred on Family Law and Resident Alien.