Hayley Elizabeth Atwell is an English-American actress, who played Peggy Carter in the 2011 action film Captain America: The First Avenger, the 2013 short Agent Carter, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the 2014 sequel Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the 2015 ABC/Marvel television show Agent Carter, the 2015 films: Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame, and the TV show Avengers Assemble. She also played Captain Carter in What If...? and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
She also appeared in the 2015 Disney live-action adaptation of Cinderella, as the biological mother to the title character and Evelyn Robin in Christopher Robin. In addition, she was in a dubsmash video with her Agent Carter co-star James D'Arcy with Miss Piggy lipsyncing to Beyoncé's "All the Single Ladies" in September 2015. She also played Hayes Morrison in the ABC TV show, Conviction.
Disney Roles
(Marvel Cinematic Universe)
Trivia
- She portrayed Cinderella's biological mother in the 2015 live-action film Cinderella, while Lily James portrayed her daughter, Cinderella.
- Interestingly, both Hayley Atwell and Lily James were born on April 5, 7 years apart.