Lou Diamond Phillips
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YEAH! I have loved Lou Diamond Phillips for ever and he has done so many movies for SCIFI this just seems like a good fit. Ming Na has been a long time fave of mine- she was in Noah Wyle’s residency class on ER way back when and has done a lot of voice work in the years since as well as other acting gigs. Alaina Huffman is SGU’s Amanda Tapping- tall, athletic and blond with short hair- she has spunk and is fun! Can’t wait for SGU to get going now!
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Lou Diamond Phillips has joined the cast of Sci Fi Channel’s new original series “SGU: Stargate Universe.”
Ming Na
Rounding out the show’s cast are Elyse Levesque and Alaina Huffman, both of whom have appeared on “Smallville,” and Ming-Na.
The four join previously cast Robert Carlyle, Justin Louis, David Blue, Jamil Walker Smith and Brian J. Smith on the series, which began production last week in Vancouver.
Alaina Huffman
Edgier than its franchise predecessors, “SGU” follows a band of soldiers, scientists and civilians who must fend for themselves after they are forced through a Stargate when their hidden base is attacked. The survivors, led by Dr. Nicholas Rush (Carlyle), emerge aboard an ancient ship, which is locked on an unknown course and unable to return to Earth.
Phillips will play the ill-fated expedition’s Col. Telford, a lifelong military man.
Ming-Na will play Camile Wray, a human resources executive with the international oversight committee that governs the Stargate program.
Levesque will play the daughter and aide of a U.S. senator, and Huffman will play a field medic assigned to treat the seriously wounded.
“SGU” is scheduled to launch in October.
I would’ve sent you all the press release but my emails dont seem to be getting through
No problem! We got the news pretty darn quick thanks to the Hollywood Reporter
I sent some other stuff, re FOX programming