Astrid Farnsworth
FBI Junior Agent Astrid Farnsworth is officially the Fringe science team's assistant, but it often seems like her main duty is looking after Dr. Walter Bishop in his lab. She also helps Olivia with research, and she serves as a buffer of sorts in the sometimes prickly relationship between Walter and his son, Peter.
Astrid brings major skills to the Fringe team, and she's not shy about taking the initiative to follow up leads that help solve cases. She's a linguist who knows Latin, understands music, knows her way around a lab, and is a pretty experienced computer hacker. Oh, and she's an ace code-breaker, too.
Although Walter can never seem to remember Astrid's real name — calling her "Asterisk," "Ostrich," and all sorts of other monikers — he has come to depend on his upbeat sidekick for much more than procuring supplies and Chinese food. Everyone on the team benefits from Astrid's kindness and compassion, but especially Walter. Her practical way of seeing and expressing things can snap him out of one of his manic moods better than even a strawberry milkshake.
Agent Astrid Farnsworth
Fringe Division Agent Astrid Farnsworth of the Other Side is an important part of her team, just as is her counterpart on This Side. Seen mostly at her station in Fringe HQ, she is constantly calculating statistical probabilities and keeping an eye out for anomalies that could turn into Fringe events.
Farnsworth often makes key discoveries that help the Fringe team avert disaster, including leading agents Charlie Francis and Lincoln Lee to cabbie Henry Higgins, whose revelation about Olivia swapping universes changes the game for them both.
Although Farnsworth is often so deeply focused on her work that she appears emotionless, she shows flashes of the compassion so familiar in the other Astrid. There's certainly no mistaking Farnsworth's concern when she reports to her teammates that Colonel Broyles has apparently disappeared, being not only absent from work but also not at home. Will her incredible deductive skills help her figure out what's become of him?
Jasika Nicole made her feature film debut in the ballroom-dancing movie "Take The Lead" opposite Antonio Banderas. She went on to appear alongside Natasha Richardson and Molly Shannon in the James Burrows-directed "Masters of Manhattan," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and "The Return of Jezebel James" with Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose, and made a hilarious cameo in the feature film "She's Out of My League."
Originally from Birmingham, AL, Nicole attended Catawba College, a small private school in North Carolina, where she studied theater, voice and dance before moving to New York City to pursue a career in the arts. She starred opposite Bronson Pinchot in the title role of the musical "Chasing Nicolette," and has appeared in several stage productions, most notably in the Off-Broadway 1960s musical "Cafe a Go Go" and the world premiere of "Believe in Me...a Bigfoot Musical" at the 2004 NYC Fringe Festival.
While working on film sets and in various stage productions, Nicole began drawing and displaying her art work online. Her website, jasikanicole.com, has an enthusiastic fan base, and her illustrations have been commissioned and sold worldwide. She has a line of eco-friendly tote bags adorned with her drawings for sale online. In addition to freelance illustration, Nicole writes and draws an autobiographical comic entitled "High Yella Magic," which she is developing into a graphic novel.
Nicole currently divides her time between Vancouver and Brooklyn, NY.
