Category Archives: Cast: Ali Larter (as Niki Sanders)

The website AliLarterFan got their hands on some new shots from the Heroes Season 4 set. These show Tracy Strauss (Ali Larter) on the sidewalk coming face to face with Season 4′s new villain, Samuel (played by Prison Break’s Robert Knepper). Tracy doesn’t look all that surprised to see Samuel (or maybe she just hides it well), but Samuel looks, well, kind of confused. Then again, these shots were probably snapped between takes, so the context for the scene is probably something else entirely.

If you were at the movies this weekend, you might have caught Heroes’ Ali Larter in the #1 movie in the country, “Obsessed”. Well Ali still has her day job, which is Heroes. While on the Jimmy Fallon show last week to promote “Obsessed”, Ali talked about the Heroes Season 3 finale, and the possible return of her character Tracy Strauss for Season 4. VERY MILD SPOILERS in the video after the jump.

Bryan Fuller has been hailed as the savior of Heroes, so it’s only fitting that we allow him to tell us where the show went wrong while he was off doing his own show (the now-canceled Pushing Daisies), and how he’s going to whip it back into form. And oh yeah, Fuller also puts the kibosh on the whole “is she or isn’t she dead?” question regarding Ali Larter’s Tracy Strauss, and teases us on the final four episodes of Heroes Season 3.

So what’s Ali Larter’s Niki/Jessica Sanders (or is it now Tracy Strauss?) character been up to on Heroes? It’s probably not a stretch to say that the entire Sanders clan didn’t exactly have a lot to do in Season 2, with Niki mostly spending her time in New Orleans daydreaming about her dearly departed hubby D.L., a man with the power to phase through any object, but for some reason forgot to use it when someone shot him. (Yes, that was very convincing, writers of Heroes.) Of course, we can explain away Ali Larter’s lack of activity in Season 2 to Ali’s burgeoning movie career, as she had roles in not one, not two, but four movies in 2007 alone. So what can we expect from Ali Larter and her characters in Season 3? Let’s see what we know already… SPOILERS BELOW.