Mark Donavan - played by Prison Break actor Wentworth Miller. Mark is a soldier returning home following the end of the Iraq War when the Visitors arrive.
Jessica Matthews - played by actress Elizabeth Banks, from the movies Role Models and Zach and Miri Make A Porno. Jessica is Mark's girlfriend who works as a nurse in a New York Hospital. Her personal faith in God is changed the day the Visitors show up all over the world.
Lillian Figueroa - played by Academy Award winning actress Penelope Cruz. Lillian is a widely respected news anchor on Fox News, but her big break comes when she is invited up to the New York Visitor Mothership to have a one on one interview with the Supreme Commander of the Visitors himself.
Julius Williams - played by actor Sam Worthington, from Terminator: Salvation and Avatar. Julius is a Los Angeles cop whose dark past comes to haunt him when the Visitors appear over Earth's major cities.
Chris Black - played by Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia. Good, close friend of Julius and cousin of Mark Donavan. The only person who Julius reveals his "secret" to.
Casey Donavan - played by award winning actress Amy Adams, from Enchanted and Julie and Julia. As Mark's younger sister, she works in the White House as a personal assistant to the President of the United States himself. With this position, she has behind the scenes access to the Visitors and their interactions with the President.
Ellen Hawthorne - played by multi-award winning actress Sigourney Weaver, whose most famous role is that of Ripley from the "Alien" series. Ellen is a retired high school teacher. As a single mother with a daughter in college and a teenage son just about to start, her grip on her somewhat dysfunctional family gets worse when the Visitors arrive and her children take up interests in the Visitors, both in different ways.
Max Hawthorne - played by actor Jeremy Sumpter. The arrival of the Visitors gives Max a new outlook on life. His desire to get closer to the Visitors leads him to join the Visitor Alliances program, which allows young people to visit the Motherships and meet with Visitor Officers.
Rebecca Hawthorne - played by actress Ellen Page, famous for her roles in Juno and Inception. In her senior year of college, her world is changed when the Visitors arrive. However, as Rebecca gets closer to the Visitor known as Dylan, their choices will have a rippling effect that neither of them ever would have expected.
Tomorrow... i will post the casting info for the Visitors themselves!
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