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Zoie Palmer (born 28 October 1977) is a Canadian actress best known for her roles as Dr. Lauren Lewis in the Showcase supernatural drama Lost Girl and as the Android in the SyFy science fiction series Dark Matter. Palmer was born in Camborne, Cornwall, England, to parents of Irish and British descent. She emigrated to Canada with her family when she was ten. She attended Sacred Heart Catholic High School in Newmarket, Ontario, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in Toronto in 2001. She had her first professional acting role as a teenager, in summer stock at the Red Barn Theatre in Jackson's Point, Ontario. After graduating from York University, Palmer began working in theatre in Toronto. She appeared in productions of The Crucible, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Vagina Monologues. She also had guest-starring roles on several television series, including The Border, Smallville, and The Listener. In 2010, Palmer was cast as Dr. Lauren Lewis in Lost Girl. The series ran for five seasons and was a critical and commercial success. Palmer's performance as Lauren was praised by critics and fans alike. She won several awards for her work on the show, including a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series. In 2015, Palmer was cast as the Android in Dark Matter. The series ran for three seasons and was cancelled in 2017. Palmer's performance as the Android was also praised by critics and fans alike. She was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series for her work on the show. In addition to her work on television, Palmer has also appeared in several films. She starred in the 2012 independent film Cold Blooded, for which she won a Gold Medallion Acting Award for Best Actress at the BareBones International Film Festival. She also had roles in the films The Reagans, Out of the Ashes, and Devil's Perch.
Ancillary Justice is a space opera set thousands of years in the future, where the principal power in human space is the expansionist Radch empire. The empire uses space ships controlled by AIs, who control human bodies ("ancillaries") to use as soldiers. The narrative begins twenty years after the disappearance of a Radch starship, the Justice of Toren, when the sole surviving ancillary (and a fragment of the Justice of Toren's consciousness), Breq, encounters an officer, Seivarden, who had been a lieutenant on the Justice of Toren 1,000 years earlier. The plot switches between two strands: Breq's "present-day" quest for justice for the Justice of Toren's destruction and flashbacks from 19 years earlier when the Justice of Toren was in orbit around the planet of Shis'urna, which was being formally brought into the Radchaai empire.
