The ranks of NBC’s Heroes have expanded again, with actor Nick D’Agosto taking a recurring part in the show’s second season.

D’Agosto (Election) will play Claire’s (Hayden Panettiere) boyfriend in the coming season, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Details of D’Agosto’s character are, naturally, being kept

Claire Bennet played by Hayden Panettiere

Claire Bennet, a high school cheerleader in Odessa, Texas, who learns through trial-and-error that her flesh is indestructible.

Panettiere starred in the Lifetime original movie "Lies My Mother Told Me" opposite Joely Richardson and in The Disney Channel’s acclaimed "Tiger Cruise," based on the true events of September 11th. Her HBO film, "Normal," opposite Jessica Lange and Tom Wilkinson and directed