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Special Agent Olivia Dunham{ Anna Torv }

Anna Torv{ Special Agent Olivia Dunham }

With Marine Corps experience and an impressive dossier of solved cases, Special Agent Olivia Dunham was a rising star in the FBI. But now, horrified by the tragedy of Flight 627 and stunned by the betrayal of someone she trusted, Olivia can no longer return to the world of traditional criminal investigations. As she delves ever deeper into the dangerous world of fringe science, Olivia comes to realize that science and technology have already advanced beyond our dreams... and nightmares.

Chosen by Homeland Security Agent Phillip Broyles, Olivia has assembled a task force to investigate The Pattern - a mysterious sequence of unexplained phenomena suggestive of someone or something performing experiments on the world. With the help of mad genius Walter Bishop and his estranged son Peter, she aims to bring high-tech criminals to justice, while defusing previously unimaginable threats to national security.

Anna Torv is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia's most prestigious acting college. Since graduating, she has performed with the esteemed Sydney Theatre Company and had regular roles on several of Australia's acclaimed television dramas, including "The Secret Life of Us" and "Young Lions." She has also appeared in the highly popular "McLeod's Daughters."

Torv's feature film credits include "Traveling Light" directed by Kathryn Millard and Ana Kokkinos' "The Book of Revelation" starring opposite fellow Australian Greta Scacchi. Her most recent credits include the BBC television series "Mistresses" and the cable miniseries "The Pacific," produced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.

Torv divides her time between New York and Brisbane, Australia.

Peter Bishop{ Joshua Jackson }

Joshua Jackson{ Peter Bishop }

As the neglected son of a real-life mad scientist, Peter Bishop had a less than idyllic childhood. After Walter Bishop's institutionalization, Peter set out to make himself as different from his father as he could. Peter is a college drop-out who passed for several months as a chemistry professor... an intuitive mathematician who has nevertheless lost his shirt and more in the casinos of Europe and America... a jack-of-all-trades who has held every imaginable job from bouncer to biochemical engineer.

Peter's discontent has led him around the world, unwilling to stay anywhere for long. But his employment as a civilian consultant for the FBI, in order to supervise his mentally fractured father, could force him to put down reluctant roots. Against his better judgment, Peter now finds himself following in his father's dangerous footsteps - while assisting a government agency that holds a file containing information about his own possible criminal activity.

Well known as the fast-talking, self-deprecating "Pacey Witter" from "Dawson's Creek," Joshua Jackson has been working in front of the camera for over 15 years, and will be seen next in the independent Canadian feature film "One Week."

Recently, Jackson was part of the ensemble cast of the critically acclaimed film "Bobby" directed by Emilio Estevez, and the psychological thriller "Shutter" that was shot on location in Tokyo. Additionally, Jackson enjoyed a successful run on London's West End starring in "A Life in the Theatre" alongside Patrick Stewart. The acclaimed comedy was written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and Oscar-nominated David Mamet.

Jackson's feature film debut was in Michael Bortman's "Crooked Hearts," which he followed up with the "Mighty Ducks" trilogy, "Digger" and "Andre the Seal." Jackson starred in "The Skulls," in Rose Troche's acclaimed drama "The Safety of Objects," the HBO Films version of Moises Kaufman's groundbreaking play "The Laramie Project" and "Aurora Borealis" as a troubled young man opposite Donald Sutherland. He had noted cameos in Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's 11," "Scream 2," "Urban Legend" and "I Love Your Work." His additional feature film credits include "Cursed," "Gossip," Bryan Singer's "Apt Pupil" and "Cruel Intentions."

A Vancouver native, Jackson divides his time between his hometown, Los Angeles and New York.

Dr. Walter Bishop{ John Noble }

John Noble{ Dr. Walter Bishop }

Dr. Walter Bishop, once hailed as one of the most brilliant scientific minds of his generation, understands the peril and promise of fringe science better than any other. His groundbreaking work with lab partner William Bell, in fields ranging from quantum physics to genetic engineering, propelled him into an undisclosed relationship with the U.S. government to advance its most scientifically innovative - and ethically questionable - research projects. But that was before the accident in 1991 that sent a lab assistant to the grave - and Walter himself to St. Claire's mental hospital.

Seventeen years later, Walter has re-emerged. Recruited by FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham and supervised by his estranged son Peter, Walter supplies the scientific genius and technological wizardry needed to explore The Pattern - a series of events that disturbingly often trace back to Walter's own scientific explorations. Sadly, his shattered memory can only tell him fragments of the real story.

John Noble is an Australian stage, film and television actor, as well as a theater director of more than 80 plays. Early in his career, Noble was the Artistic Director of the Stage Company of South Australia for ten years, during which he was involved in South Australia's cultural explosion. He performed with all of the state's major arts companies, and produced over 70 new Australian plays.

As an actor, he is best known for his role as "Denethor" in "The Lord of the Rings," for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast and a Broadcast Film Critics Association USA Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Noble's television guest roles include 24, "Journeyman," "The Unit," "Lost Treasure of Fiji," "Home and Away," "Stargate SG-1," "The Mystery of Natalie Wood," "Stingers," "The Lost World Series III," "Superfire," "The Outsider," "The Bill," "Big Sky," "Police Rescue," "Water Rats," "Timetrax," "Above the Law," "The Young Lions" and "Tales of the South Pacific." For the last six-and-a-half years, he has had a semi-regular role on "All Saints" as the neurosurgeon "Dr. John Madsen." Noble's additional credits include the mini-series "Hills End" and the films "The Dreaming," "Nostradamus Kid," "A Sting in the Tail," "Call Me Mr. Brown," "Airtight," "The Monkeys Mask" and "A Virtual Nightmare," "One Night with the King" and "Running Scared."

Noble lives in Sydney, Australia.

Agent Phillip Broyles{ Lance Reddick }

Lance Reddick{ Agent Phillip Broyles }

Homeland Security Agent Phillip Broyles leads the U.S. Government's official investigation into The Pattern. A master of navigating the halls of power, Philip Broyles could easily have risen through the ranks of government without ruffling feathers. But Broyles prefers to push limits and test boundaries. When unexplainable events began to occur around the globe, he makes it his mission to find out why.

Now he has assembled a special team to look into these events, led by Agent Dunham with the help of the father-son team of Walter and Peter Bishop. Managing this team will test Broyles's political skills and make him a target for those who do not want the truth revealed. Broyles's goal: to find out who or what is behind these mysterious events, and to stop them from spiraling out of control.

After playing the memorable role of "Lt. Cedric Daniels" on the critically acclaimed "The Wire," a role that has brought him a global fan base, Lance Reddick is currently starring on FRINGE while also recurring on the hit series "Lost." He was also recently featured in a series of high-profile Cadillac spots, just wrapped the independent feature "The Way of War" with Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding, Jr., and will soon be seen in another leading role in "Tennessee" for producer Lee Daniels.

Reddick is also known for his outstanding work on "The Corner" and as "Detective John Basil" on "Oz"; recurring roles on "CSI: Miami" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"; and the Showtime film "Keep the Faith, Baby" with Harry Lennix. His feature film credits include work opposite Daniel Craig and Kim Basinger in "I Dreamed of Africa," "The Siege" for director Ed Zwick, Alfonso Cuarón's "Great Expectations" and the indie film "Bad City."

Born and raised in Baltimore, MD, Reddick, the son of two public school teachers, attended the University of Rochester before transferring to the prestigious Eastman School of Music, where he majored in classical composition for four years before admitting that his heart lay with pop music. In his twenties, he struggled to make it as a musician and decided to try acting as a way to help jumpstart his music career, and was quickly cast in local stage productions, and one year later, on a lark, he applied to the Yale School of Drama.

Two weeks after graduating from Yale in 1994, Reddick was cast as the understudy for Jeffrey Wright in "Angels in America." His other theater productions include "Henry V," "Julius Caesar," "Afterplay," "On House" and the critically acclaimed 2006 off-Broadway revival of August Wilson's "7 Guitars," in which Reddick played "Floyd."

In 2006, Reddick launched YNC Films with the vision to produce small, multi-ethnic, talent-driven, artistically sophisticated and socially complex films, and is currently developing a script by Bruce Terrace, the director and co-writer of "Bad City."

Reddick is also dusting off his ambitions to pursue a recording career, having recently completed "Contemplations & Remembrances," a collection of contemporary jazz songs that will be released independently online later this year.

Reddick divides his time between Los Angeles and New York.