“Wonderfalls” star Caroline Dhavernas has joined the cast of NBC’s “Hannibal,” an hour-long crime drama chronicling the early days of Hannibal Lecter, the notorious cannibal/serial killer first introduced in the Thomas Harris novels “Red Dragon” and “Silence of the Lambs.”

Bryan Fuller, creator of ABC’s Emmy-winning series “Pushing Daisies” and Showtime’s “Dead Like Me,” is penning “Hannibal,” which stars Mads Mikkelsen as the eponymous villain, Hugh Dancy as FBI agent Will Graham, Aaron Abrams as forensic investigator Brian Zeller and Lawrence Fishburne as Jack Crawford.

According to THR, Dhavernas will play Dr. Alana Bloom, a Chicago-based psychology professor and FBI profiler who befriends Graham and falls for Crawford. Her previous genre creds include the Adrien Brody vehicle Wrecked and producer M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil.