• Jaime Sommers (Michelle Ryan) is a bartender who is involved in a near fatal car accident and becomes the Bionic woman.
• Jonas Bledsoe (Miguel Ferrer) is the apparent director of the Bionics program.
• Ruth Treadwell (Molly Price) is one of the Bionic team members.
• Jae Kim (Will Yun Lee) is one of the Bionic team members.
• Becca Sommers (Lucy Hale) is Jaime's sister. Mae Whitman was originally cast in the role but was subsequently replaced (and her scenes in the pilot episode refilmed) after series production was announced. The character was originally depicted as hearing-impaired, and resentful of her sister. On announcing the recasting, series producers described the revised version of the character as no longer hearing-impaired and a "budding hacker" who may "open a channel" to restoring the relationship between Jaime and her parents.
The series originally starred Michelle Ryan, Miguel Ferrer, Molly Price, Will Yun Lee , and Mae Whitman, with David Eick, Laeta Kalogridis, Jason Smilovic and Michael Dinner serving as executive producers and writers. Dinner also directed the pilot but exited his post as executive producer in June 2007. Glen Morgan, writer and producer on The X-Files, Space: Above and Beyond, and Millennium, joined the production team of Bionic Woman as an executive producer in May. On June 27, 2007, TV Guide reported that Mae Whitman was being replaced in the role of Jaime's sister. An NBC spokesperson confirmed this, stating, "The decision was purely creatively driven. It is very common to change storylines, characters, actors after the initial pilot is shot." Also, the sister character will not be deaf, as reportedly an NBC executive requested that the character's hearing be restored. Lucy Hale was later cast as Whitman's replacement in July 2007. In announcing the recasting, it was confirmed that the deaf trait of the character had been dropped.
Katee Sackhoff also stars in the pilot. It has been reported that she might star on the show in a recurring capacity, alongside her role on Battlestar Galactica, which, like Bionic Woman, is filmed in the Vancouver, British Columbia area. Sackhoff plays a villain named Sarah Corvus, the "original bionic woman". Sackhoff has compared the role to Number Six. Isaiah Washington has also been confirmed to appear in at least five episodes of the series.
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