Eric Johnson, Michael Eklund to Guest Star on Fox's ALCATRAZ

As first reported on TVGuide.com, Michael Eklund, star of 'Fringe' and 'Smallville's Eric Johnson are set to guest star on Fox's new drama series ALCATRAZ. Both actors will play prisonors who have recently escaped from the famed San Francisco prison. 

ALCATRAZ will be premiering on Mondays, 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT beginning in January of 2012. From executive producer J.J. Abrams (FRINGE, "Lost," "Star Trek," "Super 8" and the upcoming "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol") and writer Elizabeth Sarnoff ("Lost," "Deadwood") the chilling new drama revolves around America's most infamous prison, the one-time home to the nation's worst murderers, rapists, kidnappers, thieves and arsonists.

The story focuses on San Francisco Police Department DET. REBECCA MADSEN (Sarah Jones), who is assigned to a grisly homicide case. A fingerprint leads her to a shocking suspect: JACK SYLVANE (Jeffrey Pierce), an Alcatraz inmate who died over 30 years ago. Given her family history - both her grandfather and surrogate uncle, RAY ARCHER (Robert Forster), were guards at the prison - Madsen's interest is immediately piqued, and once the enigmatic, knows-everything-but-tells-nothing government agent EMERSON HAUSER (Sam Neill) tries to impede her investigation, she's doggedly committed. Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert and comic book enthusiast, DR. DIEGO "DOC" SOTO (Jorge Garcia), to help her piece together the inexplicable sequence of events. The twosome discovers that Sylvane is not only alive, but he's loose on the streets of San Francisco, exacting decades-old revenge and leaving bodies in his wake. And strangely, he hasn't aged a day since 1963 when Alcatraz was ruled by the iron-fisted WARDEN Edwin James (Jonny Coyne) and the sadistic ASSOCIATE WARDEN E.B. TILLER (Jason Butler Harner).

Actor Michael Eklund's TV credits include Flashpoint and Caprica. In the episode, he will play Kit Nelson, a terrifying kidnapper who murders his victims and then returns them home. The episode will air on Monday, January 23rd. 

Eric Johnson, currently starring in the show Rookie Blue, will play Cal Sweeney, a sly and ominous bank robber. His episode is set to air on January 30th.