Actress Anne Heche will be making her debut on the Nickelodeon show The Legend of Korra this week as Suyin Beifong.

Suyin Beifong (voiced by Anne Heche) in The Legend of Korra.

The Hollywood Reporter debuted the first image and information on the character. Suyin is the half-sister of Chief Lin Beifong, and the daughter of Toph Beifong from the original series Avatar: The Last Airbender. Su is a metalbender like her sister, and the leader of a city she helped found called Zaofu. The episode, "The Metal Clan" will focus on Korra and her friends visiting Zaofu, and Suyin's strife with her sister."The Metal Clan" will be the second of two episodes to air this Friday, and will be on at 8:30 PM ET. Nickelodeon plans to bring The Legend of Korra to San Diego Comic-Con , and the show is being adapted into a video game from Platinum Games.

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