Janel Parrish is joining the Heroes cast as the Head Cheerleader at the school Claire will attend.
Also revealed are details on Nichelle Nichols’ role. She will be playing a Hurricane Katrina survivor.

Thing get pretty spoilerish here.

Nichol is also Micah’s great-aunt.

Showing up in the season’s fourth episode, she’ll play Nana, a New Orleans doyenne whose daughter died during Hurricane Katrina. “Nana is tough and undaunted and — like the blues — she just keeps rising to the occasion,” Nichols says. The character, who is in dire financial straits, has moved back into her once-flooded home, where she cares for her two grandchildren. One of them, new hero Monica (The Nine’s Dana Davis), is an avenging angel intent on bringing justice to the corruption-plagued Big Easy. Nana is also a great-aunt to Micah, the junior hero played by series regular Noah Gray-Cabey. “Micah is sent to New Orleans to live with the family,” Nichols says. “It’s a quite marvelous, magical story, with wonderful things emerging.” Does Nana have a superpower? “Well, that remains to be seen, now doesn’t it?” coos Nichols.

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