The 5 feet 6 inches hazel eyed beauty Jewel Belair Staite was the youngest of the 7 siblings born in the Staite family on the 2nd of June 1982 in White Rock, BC, Canada. Being discovered in a Vancouver shopping mall at age 5, Jewel started her modelling career as a kid at the age of 6 with appearances in television movies such as CBC's Liar, Liar in 1993 and has acted since then.
Though she has acted in a numbers television series some of her roles that she is very well known for are her roles as Kaylee Frye in the Fox television series Firefly (2002–03) and its spin-off theatrical film Serenity (2005), and as Dr. Jennifer Keller on Sci-Fi Channel's science-fiction television series Stargate Atlantis (2007–09). Staite also starred in her youth as Catalina in Space Cases (1996) and as "Becca" Fisher in Flash Forward (1996–97), and more recently as Raquel Westbrook in the Canadian drama The L.A. Complex (2012) and Caroline Swift in AMC's crime drama The Killing (2013–14).
Jewel Staite Religion
Jewel Staite hasn’t really spoken much about her religion though by her family background she is a Christian.
Jewel Staite Political Views
Loss of her uncle suffering from AIDS, led to her involvement
invarious projects related to AIDS. She worked in the cutting edge ceremony for an AIDS memorial where the names of AIDS victims in the area will be permanently memorialized. Her various tweets on Ban on killing of dogs and cats in China showed her antagonism for the killing of the poor animals.Who is he/she dating?
Matthew Kevin Anderson and Jewel Staite were married for 8 years. They dated for 1 year after getting together in 2002 and married on 25th Apr 2003. 8 years later they divorced in Dec 2011.On December 13, 2011, she announced they were divorcing in a post on her food blog. Not a single reason was given out from both sides and their divorce still remains a mystery. Staite after failed married life, left the past and moved on to a new path marrying After 3 years from her divorce with Matthew, Jewel married Charlie Ritchie in December 9, 2015. Now Jewel and Charlie are blessed with a beautiful baby Boy, Wilder Cathcart Ritchie on the 9thof December 2015.
Jewel Staite Hobbies
The smiling beauty's favorite hobbies happen to be traveling and writing. Acting also seems to be her hobby in one of her interview she stated 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. This clearly shows much jewel enjoys acting and this happens to be one of the reason why she is so good at it.
Interesting Facts
Jewel 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.
Was featured on the preteen video/board game "Party Mania".
Attended Armageddon Expo in Wellington New Zealand in 2006 and 2017.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewel_Staite
www.imdb.com/name/nm0821612
