Jewel Staite

Actress

Set 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished, follows a new team that must restart the project hoping to understand the mysteries behind the machine and its creator.

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Quantum Leap (2022–2024)

Born in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada, Jewel Staite spent the first three years of life living in Maui, Hawaii. She started out as a model and was recommended at the age of six to act. She won an award as best actor in "Meeting Dad," a Vancouver, British Columbia Film School short.

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Awards
- 4 wins & 9 nominations total

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Known for

Firefly

8.9

TV Series

Kaylee Frye

Serenity

7.8

Kaylee

2005

Blindspot

7.3

TV Series

Kiva Garen

Credits

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Actress

Havoc Town
8.3
Podcast Series
- Corinne Abbess
- 2025
Resident Alien
8.0
TV Series
- Jules Gardner
- 2025
Family Law
7.4
TV Series
- Abigail Bianchi
- 2021–2025
Lego Jurassic Park: The Unofficial Retelling
6.2
Short
- Ellie Sattler (voice)
- 2023
Quantum Leap
6.3
TV Series
- Naomi Harvey
- 2022
Heritage Minutes
8.0
TV Series
- Nurse Anna
- 2021
Blindspot
7.3
TV Series
- Kiva Garen
- 2017–2020
The Magicians
7.6
TV Series
- Librarian Phyllis
- Phyllis
- 2019–2020
War of the Realms: Marvel Ultimate Comics
TV Mini Series
- Passenger #1
- Captain Marvel (voice)
- 2019
The Order
6.7
TV Series
- Renee Marand
- 2019
The Good Doctor
8.0
TV Series
- Stella
- 2018
Take Two
7.1
TV Series
- Jackie Jarvis
- Angela Truman
- 2018
The Detectives
7.6
TV Series
- Detective Penny Hart
- 2018
CC
7.0
Short
- CC
- 2018
Same Time Next Week
6.5
TV Movie
- Sarah
- 2017

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Personal details

Alternative name
- Jewel Straite
Height
- 5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
Born
- June 2
- White Rock, British Columbia, Canada
Spouses
Children
- Wilder Cathcart Ritchie
Relatives
Other works
TV commercial for Girl Talk (199?)
Publicity listings
- 2 Interviews
- 1 Article

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Trivia
Gained 20 lbs (9 kg; 1 st 6 lb) 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.

Quotes
"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).