Personal life
The youngest of seven children, Staite modeled as a child and acted since age six. She attended the Vancouver Film School and worked at the Vancouver Youth Theatre.
Staite has worked with the Dyslexia Foundation and several AIDS charities. She married Matt Anderson (not related to the professional baseball player) on April 25, 2003.
Career
Staite is perhaps best known for her role as Kaylee Frye in the short-lived science fiction/Western television series Firefly and its subsequent 2005 film, Serenity. She also wrote a chapter in the book Finding Serenity, called "Kaylee Speaks: Jewel Staite On Firefly". Coincidentally, she played Heidi Gotts, the antagonist in the TV series Wonderfalls, which like Firefly was also prematurely canceled by FOX. She has also taken a position as "acting head of medicine" in the Stargate spinoff Stargate Atlantis.
Other television work includes:
Liar, Liar: Between Father and Daughter (1992)
X-Files : Oubliette' (1995)
Flash Forward (1996)
Space Cases (1996)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997)
Da Vinci's Inquest (1998)
Higher Ground (2000)
Wonderfalls (2004)
She has also been a guest star on The Odyssey, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The X-Files, Just Deal, Dead Like Me, Seven Days, Huff, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and Stargate Atlantis.
