Katee Sackhoff to co-star on '24'

Actress cast as a regular in the drama's next season

Jack Bauer will be getting help from Starbuck next season.

After a couple of weeks of on-and-off negotiations, Katee Sackhoff, best known for her role as Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on "Battlestar Galactica," has been tapped to co-star on Fox's "24."

On the 20th TV/Imagine TV series, she will play Dana Walsh, a smart and competent expert data analyst at CTU with a secret past who is involved with CTU agent Davis Cole (Freddie Prinze Jr.)

This marks the final major casting of a new regular for the show's upcoming eighth season, which is already in production.

Sackhoff joins fellow new cast members Freddie Prinze Jr., Jennifer Westfeldt, Mykelti Williamson, John Boyd and Chris Diamantopoulos.

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