A headstrong beauty who started landing parts straight out of high school, Sackhoff snagged what seemed to be her breakthrough role in 2001 as the rebellious daughter of a professor on the highly anticipated drama
The Education of Max Bickford, but the show lasted only one season. A handful of small parts followed before the athletic blonde signed on to an unlikely hit: a 2003 miniseries based on the kitschy '70s sci-fi franchise
Battlestar Galactica. Sackhoff seduced fan boys with her sexually charged turn as a renegade fighter pilot and returned to the role for the subsequent series.
Katee Sackhoff Fast Facts:
- Was a competitive swimmer in high school until a dislocated knee sidelined her at age 15.
- Auditioned to be an extra on the movie Fifteen and Pregnant, but the director gave her a speaking part instead.
- Had never watched the original Battlestar Galactica and was floored to discover that the Starbuck character was originally male and played by Dirk Benedict, whom she'd had a crush on as a child.
- Katee Sackhoff Relationships:
- Dennis Sackhoff - Father
- Mary Sackhoff - Mother
- College:
- Attended Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
