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Katee Sackhoff (b. April 8, 1980, Portland, Oregon), who plays Lt. Kara Thrace (Starbuck) on the SCI FI Channel TV series Battlestar Galactica, starred opposite Richard Dreyfuss and Marcia Gay Harden in the CBS series The Education of Max Bickford, and on the big screen played opposite Jamie Lee Curtis in Dimension Films' Halloween: Resurrection. She has also appeared in such feature films as Christine Lahti's My First Mister.

Sackhoff was born and raised in and around Portland, Oregon, where she was a competitive swimmer during her school years. At the age of six, she started participating in dance and drama classes. Upon graduating from high school, Sackhoff moved to Los Angeles. Shortly thereafter she landed the lead role in the MTV pilot Locust Valley and went on to star in the Fox Family Channel series The Fearing Mind.

Her other television credits include a recurring role on MTV's Undressed, guest spots on ER; Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane; and Chicken Soup for the Soul, as well as roles in the Lifetime movie Fifteen and Pregnant, with Kirsten Dunst, and the USA Network telefilm Hefner: Unauthorized. She starred in the SCI FI Pictures original telefilm The Last Sentinel (2007) and played the original bionic woman in the pilot of David Eick's reimagining of the popular 1970s TV series The Bionic Woman.

In 2008, with Galactica in its last season Sackhoff was up for a role on CSI, replacing Jorja Fox. Despite winning the approval of executive producers Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar, CBS executives chose to look elsewhere to fill the part.

External Links

• Women of BSG Panel at Comic-Con 2007. A SCI FI Wire Exclusive featuring Mary McDonnell, Tricia Helfer, and Katee Sackhoff
• IMDB - Katee Sackhoff
• Upcoming TV Schedule by IMDB.com
• SciFi World interview
• Sackhoff Loses Out On 'CSI' Role at Sy Fy Portal

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