Jewel Staite

Overview

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous

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.
She became engaged to her longtime boyfriend Charlie Ritchie in May 2015. On 9 December 2015, at age 33, she gave birth to her first child, a son named Wilder Cathcart Ritchie.
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.
Was featured on the preteen video/board game "Party Mania".
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.

"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).
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]