Ginn
- Series
- Stargate Universe
- Affiliation
- Destiny (formerly Lucian Alliance)
- Played by
- Julie McNiven
A young member of the Lucian Alliance who chooses to join Destiny's crew, and finds love with Eli. Ginn is proof that you can switch sides, and of the sometimes terrible price of that choice.
Overview
Ginn is a young woman from the Lucian Alliance, an enemy at first, who defects to join Destiny's crew. Gifted in science and computing, she quickly makes herself indispensable, and grows tenderly close to Eli Wallace.
Her story
Arriving with the Lucian Alliance during their attempt to take Destiny, Ginn chooses to betray her own people and stay with the crew. A brave gamble that puts her in danger from both sides.
Her budding relationship with Eli brings a breath of gentleness to the series' harsh universe. But her fate is cruel: murdered on board, she nevertheless goes on existing in a strange way, through the ship's memory and the communication stones.
Ginn embodies the possibility of redemption, and one of the saddest love stories in Stargate Universe.
The actress
Ginn is played by Julie McNiven, an American actress TV fans know for her roles in Supernatural, where she played the angel Anna, and in Mad Men.
She brings the young defector a fragility and sincerity that make her story all the more poignant.
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