Editing Ila

{{Character Data
|sepcon title=Ila (alternate)| series=TOS
 | title=Ila
 | photo=Ila1.jpg
 | colony=Resided on {{TOS|Caprica}}
 | seen=Saga of a Star World
 | death=Presumed dead in the [[Battle of Cimtar|Cylon bombardment]] of Caprica
 | children=[[Zac]]†, {{TOS|Athena}}, and {{TOS|Apollo}}
 | marital status=Married to [[Adama (TOS)|Commander Adama]]
 | actor=[[Diane Jones]] (uncredited)
 | sepcon=Y
|spoilers=no}}
'''Ila''' was {{TOS|Adama}}'s only wife, and mother to {{TOS|Apollo}}, {{TOS|Athena}}, and [[Zac]].

While Ila's body isn't found in the ruins of Adama's home, Adama feels sure that she was in the home when she died. All that Commander Adama finds of his wife in the bombed-out remains of his [[The Twelve Colonies of Man#Caprica|Caprican]] home is a picture of her, along with pictures of their children {{OS|Saga of a Star World}}.

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Not much is known about her, except that during their marriage Adama used to irritate her when he bent tableware [[Wikipedia:Telekinesis|telekinetically]] during his evaluation by the [[Colonial Military Institute]] {{OS|War of the Gods, Part II}}.

=== Tie-in Material Information ===
* ''According to ''[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]'' (a non-canonical piece of merchandise published in 1979):''
: Adama's personal life has been marked by tragedy. His wife, Ila, bore him three children before her death in the Cylon attack on Caprica in [[6570]]. <ref>{{cite book|last=Kraus|first=Bruce|authorlink=|authorlinkurl=|coauthors=|year=1979|title=[[Encyclopedia Galactica]]|publisher=|location=|id=|pages=12}}</ref>

==Family tree==
{{Adama Family Tree (TOS)}}
== Notes ==
* The actress used for the photo of Ila has not been credited in the series, but was identified via computer-aided facial recognition as [[Diane Jones]]. Jones' appearances are mainly background roles during the 1970s, outside of her debut appearance in the 1970's [[w:Sexploitation|sexploitation]] flick ''[https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/index.php/The_Psycho_Lover The Psycho Lover]''. Outside of her role as Ila that had been relegated to portraiture, she appeared in live action sequences as one of the comfort women at [[Lacerta]]'s bar in "[[The Lost Warrior]]," and can first be seen when Apollo first walks in to make Lacerta's, [[Marco]]'s and [[Red-Eye]]'s acquaintance. Later, she is seen one final time when [[Vella]] grieves over the table where [[Bootes]] body is splayed, having met a bad end at Red-Eye's stolen [[laser pistol]].
* This character, and her [[Re-imagined Series]] counterpart, [[Carolanne Adama]], share one commonality: both die in their respective attacks on the Colonies, and both are seen only after their deaths.
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