Kelly Overton (“True Blood”) is toplining Syfy’s new original “Van Helsing” series as vampire killer Vanessa Helsing. The show will run for 13 episodes and is produced by Nomadic Pictures with writer and director Neil LaBute (Your Friends & Neighbors) as showrunner.

“Van Helsing” finds our new vampire hunter, a descendant of the Van Helsing linage, resurrected as humanity’s salvation in a future where bloodsuckers rule the world. Cameras are now rolling on the show for a fall debut.

Overton is familiar to horror fans for her roles in The Ring Two, the video game adaptation Tekken, her co-directorial effort The Collective, and HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood,” in which she played raging werewolf Rikki Naylor.