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Former Chicago PD star Lisseth Chavez has signed up to become one of the Legends of Tomorrow in the CW series.

She’ll be portraying Esperanza “Spooner” Cruz. Tough and self-sufficient, Spooner Cruz lives off the grid, devising ingenious tech for the detection of — and defence against — space aliens. Some might call her paranoid; she calls it being prepared. A survivor of a childhood alien encounter, Spooner now believes she can communicate telepathically with aliens — making her the perfect recruit for the Waverider.

Executive producer Grainne Godfrey, told the FanDome panel, “She is a young Latinx woman from Texas, who was kidnapped by aliens and has a third for vengeance. She’s not going to be the loveable losers that we normally have, she’s going to be pretty tough and gives it to the other Legends and they’re going to have to react to her and I think it’s going to throw them off their feet a little bit.”

Season 6 is described as: Having spent last season tracking down the Loom of Fate in order to bring back their slain comrades, the Legends must now save history from a foe like none they have ever encountered in the past or future…space aliens! After Sara is abducted by a ruthless alien, this new mission becomes personal. It will take more than the combined powers of the Legends to save the world for a sixth time. They must recruit a new Legend: Spooner Cruz, a woman uniquely qualified to help the team defeat their intergalactic foes. Either that or she’s just crazy.