The Strong Personality: Katee Sackhoff
Kathryn Ann “Katee” Sackhoff (born April 8, 1980) is an American actress known mainly for playing Captain Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel’s television program Battlestar Galactica.In 2004, she was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for her work in the Battlestar Galactica mini-series. In May 2006, she won the Saturn Award for the same role.She has also starred in the horror-thriller White Noise: The Light and the eighth season of 24 as Dana Walsh. She currently co-stars in the A&E series Longmire as Deputy Sheriff Vic Moretti.
Katee Sackhoff’s sex appeal is nothing if not versatile. Before taking on the role of Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica, Katee says she was always portrayed as a sweet, innocent little blonde girl from Oregon. Now she’s being drooled over by sci-fi nerds as a go-to tough girl. It’s a testament to Katee’s fun personality and physical attractiveness that she can appeal to such diametrically opposed male fantasies.Katee herself doesn’t like the kind of complications that can come from being so appealing. For example, Katee doesn’t approve of the love triangles Starbuck gets tangled in with her Galactica crewmates. “I wish she would just be with one of them and call it a day,” she jokes. Although she doesn’t go into details about her private life, Katee is reported to be seeing Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackle John Welbourn.
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Katee Sackhoff may only be in her late 20s, but she’s already a ten-year veteran of television. She landed her first breakout role in 1998’s Fifteen and Pregnant, alongside Kirsten Dunst, then moved on to guest-star on ER with Maura Tierney and Mekhi Phifer and Cold Case. Katee was also a regular on the Richard Dreyfuss vehicle The Education of Max Bickford. Katee then landed the role of Kara “Starbuck” Thrace on Battlestar Galactica. Silencing critics early on, she’s made Starbuck one of the most popular and compelling characters on the show.Katee’s fame rests on her role on Battlestar Galactica. While she has a strong fan base from that show, few stars from sci-fi shows, even acclaimed ones, achieve mainstream stardom. Still, Katee is beginning to be noticed in movies like How I Married My High School Crush and other TV shows like the Bionic Woman. So, it’s no wonder that even as Battlestar Galactica winds down, Katee’s made Entertainment Weekly’s 2007 list of “100 Stars We Love Right Now.” Sackhoff also appears as the main character in the Lifetime Original Movie How I Married My High School Crush. She has also made guest appearances in Cold Case, ER, Law & 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. In 2011, she provided the voice for Black Cat 2099 in Spider-Man: Edge of Time.
She voiced Sarah Essen in the DC Comics animated film, Batman: Year One. She appears in four episodes of the fifth season of the series Nip/Tuck playing a new doctor, Dr. Theodora Rowe. However, for the sixth season Sackhoff was later replaced by Rose McGowan for the role due to scheduling conflicts. Sackhoff headlined NBC’s Dick Wolf-produced cop drama Lost and Found as Tessa, “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. In 2009, she appeared as herself in “The Vengeance Formulation” episode of the CBS situation comedy The Big Bang Theory. In the episode, she is fantasized as Howard Wolowitz’s dream girl. She appears again in season 4, in the same role. Sackhoff appeared as a series regular in the eighth season of the TV series 24, playing Dana Walsh, a CTU data analyst with a secret. In February 2010, Sackhoff signed on to play the lead in an ABC crime drama pilot, Boston’s Finest. ABC decided not to pick up the series.Sackhoff is set to star in the action-werewolf thriller Growl. She also made a special appearance in the Futurama episode “Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences”. In the fall of 2010, Sackhoff joined the cast of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Detective Reed, a smart investigator who does not do well with sensitivity. In 2011, Sackhoff guest starred in an episode of Workaholics as a homeless drug addict named Rachel. Sackhoff co-stars as the lead female role in Longmire, an A&E television series based on the novels by Craig Johnson. Sackhoff plays Sheriff’s Deputy Vic Moretti. Sackhoff has been cast as Dahl, a Nordic mercenary hired to track down Vin Diesel’s Riddick in Riddick. In August 2012, Katee became the co-host of the Schmoes Know Movies podcast on The Toadhop Network. One of her first shows was with guest Sean Astin.
