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Green Arrow Series Finds Its Female Lead

But is Katie Cassidy playing the Black Canary in Arrow?

Katie Cassidy ( Taken , Nightmare On Elm Street 2010, Ruby in Supernatural ) has been cast as the female lead in The CW’s ā€œ gritty ā€ Green Arrow pilot Arrow , reports Deadline .

She joins Stephen Amell who’s playing Oliver Queen/Green Arrow.

Cassidy will play Dinah ā€œLaurelā€ Lance, a young legal clinic attorney who shares a romantic past with Oliver. According to the casting call details we posted a few weeks back , she is ā€œdetermined to use her life as a one-woman war against the 1% following the death of her younger sister Sara. A sister, who as luck would have it, just so happened to have died aboard Oliver’s yacht.ā€

In the comics, the character, Dinah ā€œLaurelā€ Lance, is the real name of the superhero Black Canary, but there’s no confirmation yet Laurel in the show will appear as Black Canary as well.

Susanna Thompson – who was the Borg Queen in Star Trek: Voyager when she wasn’t being played by Alice Krige – will be be playing a different kind of Queen in Arrow . She was cast yesterday as Oliver's mother, Moira Queen.