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Angel star Amy Acker will be the female lead in Matt Nix’s X-Men pilot for Fox.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Acker will play Kate Stewart, a woman who is struggling with her separation from her husband, Reed (played by True Blood’s Stephen Moyer) and her increasingly challenging teenage children. When her family situation takes a dark turn, she finds that she’s stronger than she thinks.

Emma Dumont has been cast as Lorna Dane aka Polaris — a strong-willed, brave and loyal mutant who has the ability to manipulate magnetism. In the original comics, she is the daughter of Ian McKellen’s X-Men character, Magneto.

Percy Hynes White will play Andy, described as “a sensitive kid and bit of a loner, who keeps to himself to avoid the turmoil he faces at school and at home”.