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This article lists fictional characters in the television series Caprica.

Main characters

Daniel Graystone

Daniel Graystone is portrayed by Eric Stoltz. The character is the CEO of Graystone Industries. He is the inventor of the Holoband (a device worn about the head which allows the user to enter V-Space) and of the first Colonial Cylon. He is one of the primary characters in the series.

Joseph Adama

Joseph Adama is portrayed by Esai Morales and is one of the key characters of the series.

Adama is a civil liberties lawyer with organized crime connections who loses his wife Shannon and daughter Tamara in a bombing. Joseph is left a widower and a single parent of his son William Adama after the bombing. His brother is Sam Adama, and both are orphans from Tauron. In an attempt to disguise his Tauron background, Joseph and his family adopted the surname "Adams", although he and William reverted to their true surname at the end of the series' pilot episode. One of his pretrial rituals would be to break pencils and then borrow one from the court clerk to symbolize the breaking of preconceptions and working with what he had.

Joseph Adama was mentioned in Battlestar Galactica, but never appeared on that show due to the fact that he had died before its events began and was also one of Romo Lampkin's teachers.

Amanda Graystone

Amanda Graystone is portrayed by Paula Malcomson. The character is a doctor who loses her daughter Zoe Graystone in a bombing. Her husband is Daniel Graystone who invents the first Colonial Cylon.

The wife of a technology tycoon, Amanda is a formidable force in her own right, with a steely will and a successful career as a surgeon. Devastated by a tragic turn of events, she embarks on a quest to discover the truth that lays behind what she knows about her daughter, Zoe.

Given her conversation about Scorpian ambrosia with Sister Clarice, she may be from another Colony, possibly Scorpia.

In the Episode "End of Line" Amanda attempts suicide by jumping off of a bridge after finding that her husband Daniel was involved in the murder of two men.

Zoe Graystone

Main article: Zoe Graystone

Zoe Graystone and her virtual copy Zoe-R are portrayed by Alessandra Torresani. Zoe-R becomes the first Cylon created by Daniel Graystone. She is one of the primary characters in the series. Zoe-R's love interest is Philomon.

Lacy Rand

Lacy Rand is portrayed by Magda Apanowicz. She is a student at the academy and Zoe Graystone's best friend. Lacy joins the Soldiers of the One along with Zoe and Ben but at the last moment refuses to join them on their journey to Gemenon. The train bombing comes as a shock to Lacy who had been unaware of the group's terrorist leanings. At Clarice Willow's suggestion, Lacy visits the virtual world where she encounters Zoe's avatar. She agrees to help Daniel Graystone meet the avatar of his dead daughter ("Avatar Zoe"). After Daniel thinks Avatar Zoe is lost as well, the avatar calls Lacy for help. Lacy is the only person who knows that Zoe's avatar remains in the Cylon body, and Lacy, despite her misgivings, agrees to help Avatar Zoe travel to Gemenon. Clarice Willow continually presses Lacy for information on Zoe's work, even attempting to use her younger husband, Nestor, to flirt with her. However, Lacy is conscious of Clarice's manipulation and reveals nothing. She meets with terrorist leader Barnabus to ask his help to get her and Zoe to Gemenon.

Sam Adama

Sam Adama is portrayed by Sasha Roiz. He is an enforcer for the Ha'la'tha crime syndicate on Caprica, using a pair of knives as his weapons of choice, notably assassinating a government official who insulted and threatened both the Ha'la'tha and Sam's own brother. His brother is Joseph Adama, and both are orphans from Tauron. Sam Adama is gay, and is married to a man named Larry. His patron god is Mars. Sam is fiercely proud of his heritage, and occasionally jokes about Joseph changing his ways to fit in with Caprican society. However, Sam is very loyal to his family, taking young William under his wing as Joseph mourns for his wife and daughter. After Amanda Graystone (unbeknownst to anyone, falsely) reveals that her daughter was one of the terrorists that caused Shannon and Tamara's deaths, Sam enthusiastically aids his brother in confronting Daniel Graystone, beating the scientist before Joseph speaks to him. Later, Joseph requests that Sam murder Amanda to "balance it out" between himself and Graystone. Although Sam accepts, he is called off by a guilty Joseph before he can actually harm her.

Clarice Willow

Clarice Willow is portrayed by Polly Walker. She is a high priestess of Athena and the headmistress of the Athena Academy. This is merely a cover, however, as Willow is a member (evidently in a position of leadership) of the monotheistic group known as the Soldiers of the One. She was born on Sagittaron. It was shown in the second episode that Willow is involved in a group marriage with at least four husbands and three other wives.

Recurring characters

William Adama

Main article: William Adama

William is the young son (and second child) of Joseph and Shannon. 50 years after the events portrayed in Caprica, he is the commander of the Battlestar Galactica when the Cylons destroy the Colonial civilization.

Jordan Durham

Jordan Durham is portrayed by Brian Markinson. Duram is an agent for the Global Defense Department investigating the train bombing.

Tamara Adama

Tamara (portrayed by Genevieve Buechner) is the teenaged daughter of Joseph and Shannon. She is among those killed in the train bombing portrayed in the Caprica pilot. After her death, Daniel Graystone uses a computer program written by his daughter Zoe to create Tamara's virtual avatar, Tamara-R, who later finds her way into the V Club. Tamara-R is initially unaware that the real Tamara has died and believes that she just needs to be woken up. Vesta eventually breaks the news to the devastated girl. Tamara-R shoots Vesta and asks Heracles to find her father and tell him that she still exists in the V world.

Cyrus Xander

Cyrus Xander is portrayed by Hiro Kanagawa. Xander is Daniel Graystone's chief confidante at Greystone Industries.

Baxter Sarno

Baxter Sarno, played by Patton Oswalt, is a talk show host. The personality and debate style of Sarno appears to be partially based on the Daily Show's Jon Stewart. The statement that Sarno is the sole news source for many college age youths is no doubt a direct reference to a claim often made about the Daily Show.

Ruth

Ruth (played by Karen Elizabeth Austin) is the mother of Shannon Adams, who takes over the day-to-day duties of the Adama household after the train bombing. Ruth adheres to Tauran traditions and customs and often tries to encourage Joseph to ensure that Willie stays in touch with his Tauran ethnicity. Ruth is suspicious of Caprican society and its customs and approves of Willie's association with Sam. She also believes in traditional Tauran justice and hints to Joseph that he should use the Ha'la'tha to seek revenge against the Graystone family for the loss of Shannon and Tamara.

Philomon

Philomon (Alex Arsenault) is a technician working for Daniel Graystone. He begins to develop feelings for Zoe-R through her alias Rachel. In the episode "End of Line", he is killed by Zoe-R as she escapes the lab.

Tomas Vergis

Tomas Vergis (John Pyper-Ferguson) is a Tauron computer scientist who clashes with Daniel Graystone.

Nestor Willow

Nestor Willow (Scott Porter) is one of Clarice's husbands.

Tad Thorean (Heracles)

Tad Thorean is portrayed by Richard Harmon. Under the alias Heracles, he is a holoband-gamer who helps Tamara.

Keon Gatwick

Keon Gatwick, portrayed by Liam Sproule, is a student at the Athena Academy as well as a member of the Soldiers of the One. He helps Lacey contact Barnabus Greeley. It is revealed at the end of the meeting that Keon is the one who constructed that bomb that Ben used, although he did not know what he was using it for.

Barnabas Greeley

Barnabas Greeley is portrayed by James Marsters. Greeley is a terrorist leader and member of the Soldiers of the One.

Priyah Magnus

Priyah Magnus, portrayed by Luciana Carro, is a public relations officer hired by Daniel Graystone.

Minor characters

Shannon Adama

Shannon is the wife of Joseph and the mother of William and Tamara, who is among those killed in the train bombing in the Caprica pilot.

Ben Stark

A student responsible for the train bombing in which he also dies.

External links

• Jevon Phillips, "'Caprica' countdown: Talking to Alessandra Torresani about the birth of the Cylons," Los Angeles Times (January 13, 2010).