Nick D'Agosto will come on board to play Claire's (Hayden Panettiere) boyfriend, West. Producers say he'll have "a very cool superpower."
Nick is the second new hero added to the next Heroes season.
Dania Ramirez, who played the girl who drove AJ Soprano to attempt suicide, signed on to play a hero named Maya.
Young Nick was born and raisd in Omaha Nebraska and was a student at Omaha's Creighton Prep, when director Alexander Payne, a school alumnus, gave him his first break by casting him in Election.