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Battlestar Galactica: Carole Segal
Laura Roslin
''Battlestar Galactica''PLAYED BY Mary McDonnell
Laura Roslin (center) has the presidency thrust upon her by tragedy — in this case, the near-extinction of humanity at the hands of the Cylons. (McDonnell played the first lady in Independence Day, so she knows all about how a chief executive should deal with an apocalyptic alien invasion.) Unlike most fictional presidents (but like some real ones), she believes she has a gift of prophecy and leads her citizens with a messianic fervor that rubs some people the wrong way. She's also the first fictional president who's ever had to deal with breast cancer — and the first whose breast cancer was cured by a transfusion from a hybrid-Cylon embryo she had ordered aborted.
