EW has reported that 24 star Nazneen Contractor has been added to the cast of of J.J. Abrams as-yet-untitled Star Trek sequel.
She is said to be playing the wife of another recent addition, Doctor Who‘s Noel Clarke, who was reported to be playing “a family man with a wife and young daughter”.
Contractor will also join Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Weller and Alice Eve in the sequel to the 2009 reboot of the Star Trek franchise.
In addition to 24, Contractor has also been seen in TV’s The Border and will soon be seen in the TV movie The Blood of Pegasus.
Very few details have been released about the notorious secretive Abrams’ follow-up to his first hit, but Roberto Orci and co-writers Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof are currently working on the final stages of the film.
The sequel will begin shooting in January 2012 and is set for a release in 3D 17 May 2013 from Paramount.
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