The Sci-Fi Channel's beloved Battlestar Galactica reboot ended in 2009 after a critically acclaimed
four-season run, and is now widely considered to be one of the greatest TV shows of all
time.
Nearly a decade after the stunning twist of the finale, let's see what the talented cast
looks like today.
Edward James Olmos
Oscar-nominated Mexican-American actor Edward James Olmos played the battle-hardened, whiskey-loving
commanding officer Admiral William Adama, an ex-pilot leading the Galactica crew and
the last surviving humans in the galaxy to safety following a nuclear war with the cybernetic
Cylons.
"You start destroying entire races, even mechanical races, you're liable to tear off a piece of
a man's soul."
When Galactica wrapped, Olmos took on a few small movie roles, including appearing as
himself in the 2010 Joaquin Phoenix mockumentary I'm Still Here and as a drug lord in 2013's
2 Guns, alongside Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg.
Olmos has also had a few recurring roles on the small screen, including playing a cultist
in Dexter for ten episodes in 2011, and Commander Robert Gonzales for a five-episode run in
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D in 2015.
The now-fully-gray-haired Olmos is also reprising his role as Detective Gaff from the original
Blade Runner in its upcoming sequel, Blade Runner: 2049.
Mary McDonnell
Handpicked for the role by series creator Ronald D. Moore, Oscar-nominated actress Mary
McDonnell played Laura Roslin, the cancer-battling President of the Twelve Colonies.
"Tell me what I need to know, and you will live."
Once the show ended in 2009, she appeared as a police captain on TNT's The Closer, opposite
Kyra Sedgwick — a role that garnered her an Emmy nomination.
McDonnell reprised the character in a 2012 spin-off, Major Crimes, which, like McDonnell
herself, is still going strong, with season six on the way in 2018.
Jamie Bamber
English actor Jamie Bamber got his big break playing Lee "Apollo" Adama in Battlestar,
an ace pilot, son of Admiral Adama, and fan favorite heartthrob…
"I wish I knew what to say."
When the show wrapped, he played Detective Sergeant Matt Devlin on Law & Order UK, the
first British spinoff of the iconic American crime drama.
After five series, the self-described "golf nut" had guest spots in a string of shows
before becoming a series regular as a surgeon in the short-lived TNT medical drama Monday
Mornings in 2013, and then as a firefighter on the British drama The Smoke in 2014.
"I know I'm an ugly bastard, but there's no need to rub it in."
Bamber's most recent TV credit requiring him to shave the scruff is a role as a detective
on the ITV slash Netflix crime drama Marcella in 2016, which was renewed for a second season.
James Callis
Playing Dr. Gaius Baltar on Battlestar earned English actor James Callis a Saturn Award
for Best Supporting Actor in 2006.
"I won't do it.
Alright?
I won't do it.
You're going to have to solve your consciences some other way."
His biggest role since was playing Dr. Trevor Grant from 2010 to 2012 on another hit sci-fi
series, Eureka.
Since then, he's appeared in a few independent films and a handful of guest-starring TV roles,
such as The Dodger on The CW's Arrow.
The last time audiences saw the now tidily-groomed Callis on screen — on any screen — was
reprising his role as Tom in Bridget Jones's Baby in 2016.
Tricia Helfer
Battlestar Galactica had a number of twists and turns, but from the very beginning, we
knew Canadian actress Tricia Helfer was playing one of the humanoid Cylons.
"We're the children of humanity.
That makes them our parents, in a sense."
Along with making guest appearances on several popular prime time programs, Helfer has since
had recurring roles in short-lived shows such as TNT's Dark Blue in 2010, NBC's The Firm
in 2012, and ABC's Killer Women in 2014.
Her latest project?
Sporting darker locks to play the devil's mother on Fox's Lucifer, based on the Vertigo
comic of the same name.
Grace Park
Pilot Sharon "Boomer" Valerii played a central role in the Battlestar story, eventually discovering
she was actually a sleeper agent …
"You hate me because I'm a Cylon.
But you won't kill me, because I love my husband and I love my child."
In 2010, actress Grace Park landed a leading role as a detective in the CBS Hawaii Five-O
remake, which she continues to play to this day.
With seven seasons under her belt, people might soon start to recognize her more for
her role in Five-O than Battlestar.
Katee Sackhoff
Playing Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on Battlestar earned Katee Sackhoff multiple Saturn Award
nominations and one win for Best Supporting Actress on Television.
"What do you hear, Starbuck?"
"Nothing but the rain."
When the show came to an end, she landed a series regular role on 24, during the final
season in 2010, before its revival in 2014.
She played analyst Dana Walsh, who Jack Bauer later outed as being a mole.
Her biggest role since Battlestar's conclusion came in 2012, when Sackhoff played Detective
Victoria Moretti in the neo-Western drama Longmire, the sixth and final season of which
airs on Netflix in the Fall of 2017.
Michael Hogan
Playing Admiral Adama's second-in-command, Colonel Saul Tigh, raised Canadian actor Michael
Hogan's profile tremendously ...
"Get me some more frackin' birds in the air!"
But once the series ended, he continued doing what he had done for decades before Battlestar:
playing small roles in in more than a dozen TV shows spanning several genres, popping
up in MTV's Teen Wolf, the FX critical favorite Fargo, and sporting an eye patch once again
for the CW's Smallville.
One of his latest jobs was playing a resistance officer in Amazon's acclaimed dystopian series
The Man in the High Castle.
Aaron Douglas
Mechanic and working class hero "Chief" Galen Tyrol was played by Canadian actor Aaron Douglas.
After the series ended, Douglas, like Michael Hogan, went back to taking low profile roles
on a wide variety of TV shows, after aiming for a breakout role in 2010 starring in the
CBS crime drama The Bridge, which was canceled in the states after just three episodes, but
lasted a whole season in Canada.
He also currently has a recurring role in BBC America's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective
Agency, co-starring alongside Elijah Wood and Samuel Barnett.
"Where's my dog?
Why did you burn down my house?
Who has my dog right now?
Is it the police?
Do the police have my dog?"
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