Caprica has its first confirmed cast member. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Deadwood's Paula Malcolmson has been cast as Amanda Greystone in prequel to Battlestar Galactica.

"Set 50 years before the events in Battlestar, the UMS-produced "Caprica" follows the evolution of the Cylon race and the fight between two families."

**SPOILER ALERT**

According to Ain't It Cool News, Malcomson will play Amanda Greystone, a surgeon who works as a double agent. When her teenaged daughter, Zoe, is killed in a suicide bombing, her husband, Daniel Greystone (wealthy computer genius) uses illegal robotic technology to revive her.

When Daniel uploads his dead daughter's memories and personality into a machine, he creates the first Cylon. What he doesn't know about his revived daughter is that she was both a computer genius and a closet monotheist.

::via: Galactica Sitrep

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