List of ''Battlestar Galactica'' characters

These are lists of characters from the various Battlestar Galactica incarnations.

Original 1978 movie and series

This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

People from the Galactica

The Cylons

People from the "Ship of Light"

Borellian Nomen

People from Terra

Galactica 1980

This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

People from the Galactica

People from Earth

The Cylons

People from the Ship of Light

Re-imagined 2003 miniseries / 2004 series

This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

Characters of the re-imagined version of Battlestar Galactica, with pilot callsigns in parenthesis.

Key

Episode counts include the two part mini-series as well as the two television movies Razor and The Plan.

Main characters

Name Actor/actress Starring seasons Episode count
William Adama ("Husker") Edward James Olmos 1-4 77
William Adama, a veteran of the First Cylon War, is the commanding officer of the Battlestar Galactica, and has the longest tenure as the highest-ranking officer in the Colonial Fleet after the Fall of the Twelve Colonies.
Laura Roslin Mary McDonnell 1-4 76
Laura Roslin serves as the Secretary of Education at the time of the Cylon attack and later serves as President of the Twelve Colonies. She is also believed by some in the Fleet to be a religious figure essential to the fulfillment of the Pythian prophecy.
Kara Thrace ("Starbuck") Katee Sackhoff 1-4 74
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace is a gifted Viper pilot, with an attitude that has hindered her career in the Colonial Fleet. However, William Adama has confidence in Thrace's military skills, and she greatly aids the Fleet inside and out of the cockpit.
Lee Adama ("Apollo") Jamie Bamber 1-4 76
Leland Joseph Adama, commonly known as Lee Adama or by his callsign, "Apollo", is a former Colonial Fleet Reserve officer who is appointed Galactica's CAG after the Cylon attack the Twelve. He is the sole surviving son of William Adama.
Gaius Baltar James Callis 1-4 76
Doctor Gaius Baltar is a brilliant scientist who unintentionally aided the Cylons in their attack on the twelve colonies. A charismatic genius and womanizer, he is initially portrayed as a self-serving opportunist, but becomes a braver and more caring character over the course of the series.
Number Six Tricia Helfer 1-4 77
"Number Six" is a humanoid Cylon who plays several key roles in Cylon society. She is the first humanoid Cylon that viewers witness in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. Stunningly beautiful and highly religious, there are several versions of her, including Caprica-Six, Shelly Godfrey, Gina Inviere, Natalie Faust, Lida and Sonja. She is the only model that does not use one particular human alias for all copies.
Number Eight ("Boomer" and "Athena") Grace Park 1-4 77
Number Eight is a female humanoid Cylon model. Two prominent Number Eight copies serve at different times as Galactica pilots: Sharon Valerii and Sharon Agathon, using the call signs "Boomer" and "Athena", respectively. "Boomer" is a sleeper agent at the beginning of the series, herself unaware of being a Cylon.

Battlestar Pegasus military personnel include:

Other Characters include:

Caprica

This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

Blood & Chrome

This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.

List of characters for Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome webseries / pilot movie

References

  1. Muir, J.K. (2005). An Analytical Guide to Television's Battlestar Galactica. McFarland, Incorporated Publishers. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4766-0656-9. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  2. Phillips, M.; Garcia, F. (1996). Science Fiction Television Series: Episode Guides, Histories, and Casts and Credits for 62 Prime-Time Shows, 1959 through 1989. McFarland. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-4766-1030-6. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.