Kathryn Ann Sackhoff was born in Portland, Oregon in April of 1980. An avid swimmer, Katee (as she is more popularly known to her television fans,) was fully prepared to embrace a professional swimming career until she injured her knee. The injury prompted her to pursue acting, and while still in high school, she performed in a number of school musical productions.
During her eighteenth year, Sackhoff endeavored into professional acting, and appeared in her very first made-for-television movie: Fifteen and Pregnant along with Kirsten Dunst. The experience encouraged her to move to Hollywood, and over the next four years she appeared in a variety of films and television series, including MTV’s Undressed and CBS’s The Education of Max Bickford.
It wasn’t until 2003, however, that Sackhoff would score the role that put her in the homes of rabid science fiction fans all across the globe: Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, the feminine incarnation of “Starbuck,” in the Syfy re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica. Sackhoff was not the director’s first choice, but as they mulled over their decision, her audition tape kept coming up, and they took a chance on a little-known actress from Oregon.
Good thing they did. As one of the key characters in the series, Sackhoff went on to win a Saturn award in 2005 for her portrayal of “Starbuck,” and was nominated for three other Saturns during the six year run of the Battlestar Galactica series.
Since the series-end of Battlestar Galactica, Sackhoff has appeared in a number of popular television series, including Nip Tuck, Robot Chicken and she is currently on 24.
Beautiful and bad ass, there is a deep connection between Sackhoff and every role she takes on, the type of connection that will continue to score her the types of resonating roles that capture the attention and heart of television audiences worldwide.
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