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Jewel Staite

Jewel Belair Staite (born June 2, 1982 in White Rock, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role in Firefly and the subsequent film Serenity. She also portrays the character of Dr. Jennifer Keller on Stargate Atlantis and in the fifth season she will be upgraded to the main cast.

She currently plays the role of "acting head of medicine" Dr. Jennifer Keller in the Stargate SG-1 spinoff Stargate Atlantis, making her the third actor from the Firefly series to move on to appear in a Stargate series (the first being Adam Baldwin and the second being Morena Baccarin), and the second to take a recurring role. She replaces Paul McGillion (Dr. Carson Beckett) whose character died in the episode "Sunday". She also played the Wraith child Ellia in the Stargate Atlantis episode "Instinct".

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