After months of speculation over who would play the title role of the Bionic Woman Michelle Ryan, a young British actress has been cast.
Michelle Ryan is best known to UK audiences for her role as Zoe Slater on the BBC soap Eastenders. After leaving Eastenders she left Britain and moved to the US.
In her big break she will play the part of Jamie Sommers, a tennis ace who is injured in a near-fatal skydiving accident and is transformed into the Bionic Woman when she has $50 million worth of bionic components implanted in her body.
If aired, the programme, which has yet to film its pilot episode, will be shown on the American TV network NBC.
The series has been described by The Hollywood Reporter as a “re-imagination of the 1970s series” which stared Lindsay Wagner, and was a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man.
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