List of Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) characters

William Adama William Adama, portrayed by Edward James Olmos, is the commanding officer of the Battlestar Galactica and military leader of the Colonial Fleet of survivors after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies. A veteran of the First Cylon War, during which his call sign was "Husker", Adama has the longest tenure as the highest-ranking officer in the Colonial Fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Laura Roslin Laura Roslin, portrayed by Mary McDonnell, is a former Colonial Fleet Reserve officer who is appointed Galacticas CAG (Commander of the Air Group) after the Cylon attack. The son of William Adama, Lee is a skilled Viper pilot. Gaius Baltar Dr. Gaius Baltar, portrayed by James Callis, Number Eight ("Boomer" and "Athena") Number Eight, portrayed by Grace Park, Screen Rant Craig Elvy wrote that Tigh's best moment of character development in the series was the death of his troublesome wife Ellen at his hands, though it was later rendered "meaningless" by her resurrection. Galen Tyrol Galen Tyrol (often called "Chief"), portrayed by Aaron Douglas, is an Electronic Countermeasures Officer, part of a two-person Colonial Raptor crew based on the Battlestar Galactica, and is paired with Sharon "Boomer" Valerii before the Cylon destruction of the Twelve Colonies. Stranding himself on the devastated planet Caprica so that Dr. Gaius Baltar can be rescued, he is unaware that Sharon is a Cylon model known as Number Eight, and subsequently falls in love with another copy of Sharon. Anastasia Dualla Anastasia "Dee" Dualla, portrayed by Kandyse McClure, is a communications NCO working in the CIC on board the Battlestar Galactica. She begins dating President Laura Roslin's aide Billy Keikeya, but eventually cheats on him with Viper pilot Lee Adama. Billy sees them together and confronts Dee, soon after which they are among a group held hostage by terrorists. Billy intervenes when Dee is about to be executed, saving her life and sacrificing his own. Dee pursues her relationship with Lee, eventually marrying him when the Fleet settles in New Caprica. The marriage is tested by their conflicting political beliefs and Lee's affair with Kara Thrace, and they eventually separate. In the uncertain time period immediately after discovering the radiation-soaked former home of the colonies, she commits suicide. Billy Keikeya Billy Keikeya, portrayed by Paul Campbell, Co-executive producer Jane Espenson said that Gaeta is completely "out" to his crew, but explains that they would not have that concept, as it is not an issue in their world. She defines him as "someone entirely free of labels, who has probably had a number of relationships, mostly with males." Alex "Crashdown" Quartararo Alex Quartararo (call sign "Crashdown"), portrayed by Sam Witwer, is a Raptor Electronic Countermeasures Officer from the destroyed Battlestar Triton who joins the Galactica crew. A member of a three-Raptor survey party sent to examine the planet Kobol in "Kobol's Last Gleaming", Crashdown takes command of a small group when his Raptor is shot down. His inept and life-threatening leadership of the group ends when Baltar shoots him before he can shoot Cally in "Fragged". Cally Henderson Cally Henderson, portrayed by Nicki Clyne, is a Galactica deckhand. She and Tyrol marry and have a son, Nicholas. Upon learning that Tyrol is a Cylon, she attempts suicide with her child, but is stopped by Tory Foster, who then murders her and saves Nicholas. It is later revealed that she had had an affair with Brendan Constanza and the child is his. Samuel Anders Samuel Anders, portrayed by Michael Trucco, is a well-known athlete with the Caprica Buccaneers who forms a resistance group on Caprica with his teammates, where they are stranded after the Cylon attack. He is later a leader in the human Resistance against the Cylon occupation of New Caprica. He eventually trains as a Viper pilot with the call sign "Longshot". In the season three finale "Crossroads", Anders learns that he is one of the Final Five Cylons, ultimately becoming a Cylon Hybrid to guide the Galactica. == Recurring ==

Number Two (Leoben Conoy) Leoben Conoy, portrayed by Callum Keith Rennie, is a male humanoid Cylon model. He is introduced in the 2003 miniseries as an arms dealer hiding at the Ragnar Anchorage munitions depot, where the Galactica has come to resupply itself. He and Adama are separated from the Galactica crew by an explosion, and Leoben begins to show signs of physical distress. Adama realizes that Leoben has been affected by the electromagnetic radiation flooding the station, which is known to be harmless to humans but disrupts the silica pathways of Cylons. Leoben confirms he is a Cylon and reveals the concept of their resurrection technology to Adama before attacking the commander. Adama bludgeons Leoben to death, and his body is taken aboard the Galactica for examination. is a male humanoid Cylon model. He is introduced in the 2003 miniseries as a public relations executive handling the Galactica decommissioning to a museum. As the attacks on the Twelve Colonies commence, Doral bristles when then-Secretary of Education Roslin takes command of the starliner they are on, but is shut down by Lee Adama. Baltar discovers a Cylon tracking device on the Galactica and realizes there is a Cylon agent on board. Anxious to hide his own unwitting complicity in the attacks, and guided by Head Six, Baltar identifies a protesting Doral as the culprit. Unwilling to take a chance in their current situation, Colonel Tigh maroons Doral with basic rations at the Ragnar Anchorage munitions depot. Baltar is proven correct when Doral is rescued by a team of humanoid Cylons that includes Twos, Sixes and other Fives, as well as a single Eight. is the Galactica Chief Medical Officer, introduced in the season one episode "Act of Contrition". Ellen Tigh Ellen Tigh, portrayed by Kate Vernon, is the mercurial wife of Saul Tigh, who he believed was killed in the initial Cylon attack but appears alive on a rescue ship. Introduced in the season one episode "Tigh Me Up, Tigh Me Down", In season three, the human settlement on New Caprica is living under occupation by the Cylons, and Ellen is forced to be an informant for a Cavil model Cylon to keep Saul safe. When he learns of her duplicity in "Exodus", a devastated Saul poisons her himself rather than allow his fellow Resistance members to exact their retribution on her. In "Downloaded", a D'Anna debriefs newly resurrected Cylons Caprica Six and Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, who are now considered heroes among the Cylon. Identifying her Cylon model as Number Three, D'Anna quickly realizes that Six and Boomer's experiences have made them more sympathetic to humans, and their celebrity creates the dangerous possibility that they could influence other Cylons. Six and Boomer realize that D'Anna has manipulated them to behave so that "boxing", or deactivating, them is justified. They prevent D'Anna from killing human Resistance fighter Sam Anders under the pretense that he should be interrogated, but ultimately Six has to kill this copy of D'Anna to save his life. Six and Boomer determine it will be 36 hours before this D'Anna is resurrected, giving them time to speak out publicly against the continued persecution of the human race. In season three, D'Anna is one of the Cylons overseeing the Cylon occupation of the human settlement on New Caprica. She begins having dreams that trigger a crisis of faith in "Exodus", which leads to the discovery that the half-human, half-Cylon child Hera Agathon is still alive. D'Anna, Caprica Six and Baltar flee with Hera. D'Anna later tortures Baltar in "A Measure of Salvation", believing he is hiding information about a virus that is killing Cylons. D'Anna is in a sexual relationship with Baltar and Six in "Hero", but her dreams are intensifying. She commands a Cylon Centurion to kill her so that she may resurrect, and during the process sees "something so beautiful between life and death". In "The Passage", Baltar discovers that D'Anna has been committing suicide and resurrecting over and over, trying to learn the identities of the Final Five Cylons, which is forbidden. In "Rapture", the humans and Cylons descend on the Temple of Five, believed to hold both the secret to Earth's location and clues to the Final Five's identities. Cavil attempts to kill D'Anna to stop her from learning the truth, but Baltar kills him instead. The supernova of a local star activates a crystal vision mechanism that shows D'Anna the identities of the Final Five, but she dies before she can tell Baltar what she saw. Reawakening on a Resurrection Ship, D'Anna is told by Cavil that her messianic tendencies have shown her to be flawed, so her model will be boxed. Subsequently in season four, a schism erupts among the Cylon models which pits the Ones, Fours and Fives against the Twos, Sixes and Eights. Cavil unboxes D'Anna in "The Hub", hoping she can negotiate a truce with the opposing faction, who have made an alliance with the humans and intend to destroy the Cylon Resurrection Hub. Ever defiant, D'Anna kills Cavil, and allows Karl Agathon to "rescue" her from the Hub, after which the humans and rebel Cylons destroy it with a nuclear strike. D'Anna reluctantly joins the human-Cylon joint venture to find the Final Five, who they believe know the way to Earth. However, as the last of the Threes, she refuses to tell Roslin what she knows until she feels safe. is a deckhand working under Galen Tyrol on Galactica in seasons one and two. In the 2006 web series The Resistance, Jammer is a member of the human Resistance against the Cylon occupation of New Caprica, but is shaken by the deaths of ten people at the hands of the Cylons in retaliation for Resistance activity. He is picked up and questioned by a Number Five Cylon model, who suggests Jammer become an informant to keep the Resistance from further damaging the fragile peace between humans and Cylons, and save human lives. Jammer balks at the idea. In season three, he has joined the New Caprica Police, ostensibly a buffer between the humans and Cylons, but functionally forced to do the Cylons' bidding. Jammer soon finds himself in over his head, as escalating strikes against the Cylons by the Resistance trigger escalating crackdowns on the populace by the Cylons. A masked Jammer helps Cally Henderson escape execution in "Precipice", and defends a fleeing President Roslin in "Exodus". In "Collaborators", Jammer is brought before a secret tribunal called The Circle, which sentences him to death for treason for his actions as part of the NCP. He begs Circle member Tyrol for mercy for saving Cally, but Tigh reasons that he has caused too many deaths and Jammer is executed via airlock. Cally is later unable to confirm for a guilt-ridden Tyrol that Jammer was the man who saved her. Writer Ronald D. Moore specifically focused "Precipice" on Jammer's role within the NCP as a means of personalizing someone working for the police force, in contrast to the focus on the Resistance in the previous episode, "Occupation". • Tucker Clellan (""), played by Christian Tessier, is a Colonial Viper pilot aboard the Battlestar Galactica. Introduced in the season two "Flight of the Phoenix", he is also a central character in the web series The Resistance. After the killing of his wife, Nora, by Cylons, Duck joins the Resistance on New Caprica. He later dies as a suicide bomber in the season three episode "Occupation". • '''''', played by Alisen Down, is a player for the Caprica Buccaneers who, like her teammate Sam Anders, becomes part of a Resistance force against the Cylons when they devastate and occupy Caprica. • '''''', played by Ryan Robbins, is a member of the Resistance on New Caprica, later part of "The Circle", who secretly execute 13 collaborators, including Jammer. Robbins also plays the Armistice Officer, Boxey's father, in the 2003 miniseries. • Louanne Katraine ("Kat") is a Colonial Viper pilot serving aboard Galactica. She was a former smuggler who took the identity of a dead girl, hoping to redeem herself following the attack. She and Starbuck become rivals, and the two frequently butt heads, developing a love-hate relationship. Following several near-death experiences, Kat becomes addicted to drugs she had been taking to deal with the stress, though she quits after nearly crashing her Viper while under the influence. She dies from severe radiation poisoning sustained while guiding several civilian ships out of a highly radioactive area. Played by Luciana Carro, Kat appeared in 18 episodes. • Romo Lampkin is a defense attorney, traveling on one of the civilian ships. He is called on, at different times, to defend Lee Adama and Gaius Baltar. Becomes President of the Twelve Colonies Of Kobol in the final episode, before the final survivors choose to scatter across the second Earth. Portrayed by Mark Sheppard, Lampkin appears in seven episodes. • Maya is chosen as the adoptive human mother of Hera Agathon, though she is not told who the baby is. Played by Erica Cerra, Maya appears in four episodes. • Noel Allison ("Narcho") is a senior Viper pilot on the Battlestar Pegasus who later transfers to Galactica, played by Sebastian Spence. He appears in nine episodes. • Gage is a Specialist serving on the Battlestar Pegasus, and later on Galactica, played by Mike Dopud. He appears in four episodes and serves in Gaeta's mutiny. • Peter Laird is a civilian aeronautical engineer pressed into service on the Battlestar Pegasus by order of Admiral Helena Cain after the Cylon attack on the Twelve Colonies, played by Vincent Gale. He appears in six episodes and is killed by Tom Zarek during Gaeta's mutiny. == Guest ==

• Boxey, portrayed by Connor Widdows, is a young boy who escapes the destruction of Caprica by the Cylons. He is the son of the Armistice Officer at Armistice Station, the first casualty of the attack. The character was intended to appear in multiple episodes of the series, but Widdows's additional scenes were cut. • Admiral '''', portrayed by Michelle Forbes, is the first commanding officer of the Battlestar Pegasus, introduced in the season two episode "Pegasus". Following the destruction of the Colonies, Cain had become unhinged, and committed numerous war crimes. Though the Galactica had been believed to be the last surviving Battlestar, when the Pegasus'' reappears, Cain takes control of the fleet as Adama's superior officer. She is dissatisfied with how Adama has been managing it, which causes friction between her, Adama and Roslin. Cain is shot and killed in "Resurrection Ship" by Gina Inviere, a Cylon Number Six whom Cain had tortured for months. The character later appears, again played by Forbes, in the 2007 television film Battlestar Galactica: Razor. • '''''', played by Clarke Hudson in the miniseries and by Tobias Mehler in the main series, is the younger son of William Adama, a Viper pilot killed in his first solo flight some time prior to the Cylon attacks. Was in a relationship with, and became engaged to, Kara Thrace during his time at flight school; Kara was in fact his flight instructor. Lee's belief that Zak flew before he was ready due to pressure to please their father damaged Lee and Adama's relationship. However, in the season 1 episode "Act of Contrition" Starbuck reveals to the two that Zak failed Basic Flight but she passed him nonetheless due to her feelings for him. • Daniel Novacek ("Bulldog"), portrayed by Carl Lumbly, is a pilot who served under Commander William Adama aboard the Battlestar Valkyrie who lost while on a stealth mission across the Armistice Line approximately six years before the Fall of the Twelve Colonies. Bulldog reappears in the season three episode "Hero", having been a captive of the Cylons. • Emily Kowalski, portrayed by Nana Visitor, is a terminal cancer patient befriended by Laura Roslin in the season four episode "Faith". • '''''' is a male humanoid Cylon model mentioned, but never depicted, in the series. In the season four episode "No Exit", the last of the Final Five Cylons, Ellen Tigh, has been resurrected, and her memories as the creator of the numbered model Cylons have been restored. It is explained that the Daniels had been artistic and sensitive, and close with Ellen. A jealous Cavil sabotaged the genetics of the entire line of Sevens so that no more could be created, and then murdered the living copies. • Sue-Shaun is a member of Samuel Anders's resistance group on Caprica and a former Caprica Buccaneer. She is mercy-killed by Starbuck at her own request after becoming an unwilling test subject of the Cylons' fertility experiments. Played by Tamara Lashley, Sue-Shaun appears in three episodes. • Alastair Thorne is an officer aboard the Pegasus known as the "Cylon Interregator", played by Fulvio Cecere. He appears in two episodes. • Barry Garner is the third commanding officer of Pegasus. Before his promotion, he was the ship's chief engineer, played by John Heard. He appears in one episode and suffocates while fixing the Pegasus FTL drive. • Cole "Stinger" Taylor is the CAG of the Pegasus serving under Admiral Helena Cain. Played by John Pyper-Ferguson. He appears in two episodes. • Jack Fisk was the ''Pegasus' '' second officer at the time of the attacks. A Lieutenant-Colonel, he is promoted to Colonel upon assuming Belzen's duties as XO, and later serves as interim CO of the Pegasus after the murder of Helena Cain before being murdered himself. Portrayed by Graham Beckel. • Mel "Freaker" Firelli is an officer on Pegasus. Played by P.J. Prinsloo. He appears in two episodes. • Vireem is a Specialist serving on the Pegasus and later on Galactica, played by Derek Delost. He appears in three episodes and serves in Gaeta's mutiny. • The First Hybrid is the precursor to the modern Cylon Hybrids, and is the first step in their evolution from pure machines to organic beings. Only appears in the two-hour television movie Razor, played by Campbell Lane. • Hera Agathon is the first successful Human/Cylon natural born child. She is the daughter of Karl "Helo" Agathon and Sharon (Number 8) "Athena". Played in different episodes by child actors Lily Duong-Walton, Alexandra Thomas and Iliana Gomez-Martinez. ==References==