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Heroes OverviewHeroes was created by Tim Kring (NBC's "Crossing Jordan"). Joining Kring as executive producer are Dennis Hammer (NBC's "Crossing Jordan") and Allan Arkush (NBC's "Crossing Jordan"). David Semel ("House") executive-produced and directed the pilot. The drama is produced by NBC Universal Television Studio.The premiere episode Heroes, which aired on September 25, 2006 on NBC, attracted 14.3 million viewers overall and received the highest rating for any NBC drama premiere in five years. Heroes, follows eleven otherwise ordinary people who begin to discover that they possess superhuman abilities such as telepathy, time travel, and flight. As the large ensemble cast slowly discovers their abilities and existence of others like them, they begin to realize that they need to come together in order to prevent catastrophe. Heroes Cast & CharactersSantiago Cabrera as Isaac Mendez, a heroin-addicted artist who lives in New York and can paint future events, but only when he takes heroin. Many his paintings include other characters in the series.Tawny Cypress as Simone Deveaux, an art dealer who sells the paintings created by her former boyfriend, Isaac. Ali Larter as Niki Sanders, a webcam stripper who lives in Las Vegas and has a split personality. When this other personality, whom Niki calls Jessica, takes over, she exhibits superhuman strength and amoral tendencies. Leonard Roberts as D.L. Hawkins, Niki's estranged husband who possesses the power to phase through solid objects, including people. Noah Gray-Cabey as Micah Sanders, D.L. and Niki's son. He is a child prodigy who also has the power to manipulate and/or repair technology through thought. Masi Oka as Hiro Nakamura, a programmer from Tokyo with the ability to manipulate the space-time continuum who has traveled to America to save the world. James Kyson Lee as Ando Masahashi, Hiro's friend from Tokyo, who has traveled to America with Hiro to help him save the world. Hayden Panettiere as Claire Bennett, a cheerleader living in Odessa, Texas, who has the ability to rapidly heal from any injury. Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli, a New York congressional candidate with the ability to fly. Sendhil Ramamurthy as Mohinder Suresh, a genetics professor from India who has traveled to New York to investigate his father's death. As part of his investigation, he follows up on his father's research into people with superhuman abilities. Milo Ventimiglia as Peter Petrelli, a former nurse and Nathan's younger brother with the ability of to mimic the powers of other heroes. Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman, a Los Angeles police officer with the power of telepathy Jack Coleman as Horned Rim Glasses, the adopted father of Claire Bennet. Unbeknownst to Claire, he is aware of her superhuman abilities as well as those of several other characters, and has been attempting to kidnap them for unknown reasons. SymbolsAppearing frequently throughout the series is a symbol which strongly resembles an RNA molecule. Said appearances include:
> Engraved on the hilt of future Hiro's sword. > Printed on the front of Chandra Suresh's book, Activating Evolution. > Printed on the upper-left corner of the 14th issue of 9th Wonders! comic book, written by Isaac Mendez (the 13th issue that Micah was reading did not have the symbol). > On a necklace around Mr. Bennet's special assistant's neck. > On a picture of Niki painted by Isaac. The symbol was hidden under an extra layer of paint. A second symbol, consisting of two parallel lines, has appeared on the necks of two of the superpowered characters in the show: > Matt Parkman, the telepathic main character. > Ted Sprague, a minor character who appears to be able to generate and manipulate ionizing radiation. ProductionHeroes employs a team of writers. When the writing team begins working on an episode script, each writer writes the individual scenes surrounding one character. These stories are then combined and given to the episode writer, allowing every writer to contribute to every episode. |
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