Happy Birthday Katee Sackhoff April 8, 2011February 16, 2012 Share0 Battlestar Galactica star Katee Sackhoff is 31 today. Saturn Award winning American actress Katee Sackhoff was born on 8 April 1980 in Portland, Oregon and earned fame for playing Captain Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in Battlestar Galactica.