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Katee Sackhoff
Born	Kathryn Ann Sackhoff April 8, 1980 (1980-04-08) (age 29) Portland, Oregon United States
Other name(s)	Katee Sackhoff

Kathryn Ann "Katee" Sackhoff (born April 8, 1980) is an American actress known for playing Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's Peabody Award-winning television program Battlestar Galactica. In 2004 she was nominated for a Saturn Award in the "Best Supporting Actress in a Television Series" category for her work in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries. In May 2006, she won the Saturn Award for the same role. She will star in the eighth season of 24 as a series regular.

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 References 4 External links

Personal life

Sackhoff was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in St. Helens, Oregon. Her mother Mary is an ESL program coordinator and her father Dennis is a land developer.¹ She graduated from Sunset High School in Beaverton in 1998. She participated in swimming and ballet until her right knee was injured, which led her to begin practicing yoga, which she continues today.² Sackhoff has three tattoos: One, on the back of her neck, is a Chinese symbol ('choice'). The second is on her left shoulder, as evidenced in the shower scene of "Someone to Watch Over Me", and is of a cross, but because there is no Christianity in the Battlestar Galactica universe, whenever her left shoulder blade was exposed on screen in the first two seasons it would be covered with a bandage; in later seasons temporary additions were added to the cross to make it look like a terraced pyramid. The third is on her right forearm and reads "bona fiscalia", meaning "public property" in legal Latin. This tattoo is visible in numerous episodes.³ Other elements from Sackhoff's life have been incorporated into the show: a ring she wears on her thumb has been described as Starbuck's engagement ring from Zak Adama, and the actress's decision to quit smoking between seasons two and three was mirrored by her character.

Towards the end of Battlestar Galactica's run, Sackhoff began feeling sick and moody, but thought nothing of it. Shortly after she finished filming Battlestar, two months after her 28th birthday, Sackhoff was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She had her thyroid removed and is currently healthy.

Career

First appearing in a series of commercials, TV movies and shows, Sackhoff got her first recurring role as 'Annie' in MTV's Undressed, next gaining a supporting role as Nell Bickford in The Education of Max Bickford. Katee made her motion picture debut in My First Mister, next appearing in film as Jenna "Jen" Danzig in Halloween: Resurrection.

Sackhoff appeared in her most notable role as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace in the mini-series and followup TV series of Battlestar Galactica, for which the actress won a Saturn Award in 2005 for Best Actress on Television. The actress's persona led the writers to develop the character of Starbuck as a more volatile and complex character. What executive produce Ron Moore described as magnetism, David Eick, producer, expanded stating, "We saw this whole other side that was all because of Katee—vulnerability, insecurity, desperation. We started freeing ourselves up to explore the weakness of the character, because we knew Katee could express those things without compromising the character's strength." ⁴

Sackhoff was next cast as the evil cyborg Sarah Corvus in the short-lived NBC series, Bionic Woman. David Eick, executive producer for the show, stated, "She's a very special find. Those actors who can combine the qualities of strength and vulnerability—they usually call those people movie stars."⁴

Sackhoff plays the female lead in the action/scifi movie The Last Sentinel and the supernatural thriller White Noise 2: The Light.

The actress appears as the main character in the Lifetime Original Movie How I Married My High School Crush⁵⁶, as well as guest appearances in Cold Case, ER, Law and Order, and Robot Chicken.

Sackhoff provided the voice of a female marine in the video game Halo 3 and is also featured in the viral marketing campaign for Resistance 2.

She appears in four episodes of the fifth season of the hit FX series Nip/Tuck, playing a new doctor, Dr. Theodora Rowe.⁷⁸ Sackhoff was later replaced by Rose McGowan for the role.⁹

Sackhoff headlined NBC's Dick Wolf-produced cop drama Lost and Found, which centered on Tessa (Sackhoff), "an offbeat female LAPD detective who, after butting heads with the higher-ups, is sent as a punishment to the basement to work on John Doe and Jane Doe cases." The pilot was filmed in January 2009. NBC decided not to pick up the series. ¹⁰

Sackhoff will appear as a series regular in the eighth season of the hit television series 24, playing Dana Walsh, a CTU data analyst with a secret. ¹¹

References

External links

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