Torchwood: Casting News

Thursday, 6 January 2011 - Reported by Harry Ward

TV Line are reporting that Alexa Havins and Dichen Lachman have both been cast in the forthcoming series of Torchwood.

Havins will play Esther Katusi, a CIA Watch Analyst who possesses an unshakable faith in human nature and a monster crush on colleague Rex Matheson (Mekhi Phifer). Details about Lachman’s character are still to be released officially but Michael Ausiello of TV Line says that she also works at the CIA.

Alexa Havins's credits include American soap operas One Life to Live and All My Children.

Dichen Lachman has appeared in Australian soap opera Neighbours and American science fiction series Dollhouse.

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