“Heroes” is adding a new cast member next season — lightening fast Daphne/The Speedster, played by Brea Grant.

Brea Grant will join “Heroes” for the third season, playing Daphne, who has three speed superpowers, including the ability to travel lightening fast - even when Hiro (Masi Oka) stops time.

Brea Grant told the Associated Press, “I’m stealing a secret that’s been kept in Hiro’s family for a long time that he’s just now found. He stops time right as I grab it, but in that second it took him to grab it, I almost make it out of the office.”

According to Masi Oka, “Her character is supposed to be Hiro’s Joker. Batman has The Joker. Hiro has Daphne. This is the season where Hiro finally finds his arch nemesis, and it happens to be this Speedster. I kind of equate it more to Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, except Daphne says more than ‘meep-meep.’”

Brea Grant was last seen as Jean on NBC’s “Friday Night Lights.”

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