Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter, also known as Agent Carter, is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise portrayed by Hayley Atwell, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Carter is depicted as a British MI6 agent and member of the Strategic Scientific Reserve who became Steve Rogers's love interest during World War II. Following the war, she became one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., eventually serving as the Director. Atwell has received critical praise for her depiction of the character.
Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter, also known as Agent Carter, is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise portrayed by Hayley Atwell, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Carter is depicted as a British MI6 agent and member of the Strategic Scientific Reserve who became Steve Rogers's love interest during World War II. Following the war, she became one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., eventually serving as the Director. Atwell has received critical praise for her depiction of the character.
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Margaret Elizabeth "Peggy" Carter, also known as Agent Carter, is a fictional character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise portrayed by Hayley Atwell, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Carter is depicted as a British MI6 agent and member of the Strategic Scientific Reserve who became Steve Rogers's love interest during World War II. Following the war, she became one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., eventually serving as the Director. Atwell has received critical praise for her depiction of the character.
As of 2024, the character has appeared in five films, as well as the short film Agent Carter (2013), the second season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and her own television series Agent Carter (2015–2016).
Alternate versions of the character, including Captain Carter, appear in the animated series What If...? (2021–2024) and the film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). What If...?'s Carter receives the Super Soldier Serum instead of Rogers. She is recruited by The Watcher to join the Guardians of the Multiverse. Multiverse of Madness's Captain Carter, also a supersoldier, is a member of the Illuminati from a reality called Earth-838.
Concept and creation
Peggy Carter debuted in a single panel (at the time the character was unnamed) as a wartime love interest of Captain America in Tales of Suspense #75 (March 1966), and then being named in #77 (May 1966). She was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby.
Regarding her preparation for the role, Atwell said, "I'm training at the moment six days a week to make her a bit more military and make it convincing that I could kick butt." On taking up the role of Carter, Atwell said "the main reason I did Captain America was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously". Captain America: The First Avenger screenwriter Christopher Markus said the film "takes place in the 40s, there weren't too many women in areas of authority at that point, and we wanted her to essentially be the most capable person on the screen at that time".
Atwell also appears in the television series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s episodes "Shadows" (2014) and "The Things We Bury" (2014), and in the television series Agent Carter (2015–2016).
Gabriella Graves portrays a young Carter in the Agent Carter episode "Smoke & Mirrors".
Atwell voices an alternate version in the What If...? season 2 episode "What If... Peter Quill Attacked Earth's Mightiest Heroes?". In an alternate 1988, she is responsible for bringing together the Avengers to face Peter Quill and Ego.
Early life
Margaret Elizabeth Carter was born in Hampstead, England, on April 9, 1919, to her parents Harrison and Amanda Carter. After the death of her brother Michael fighting in World War II, Carter decided to leave her then-fiancé Fred Wells and joined British Intelligence, and assigned as a code breaker in Bletchley Park. Rising quickly through the ranks, she was reassigned as a British Liaison to the American Forces fighting the Nazis, becoming a key member of the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) under the command of Colonel Chester Phillips.
Project Rebirth
In 1943, Carter is tasked by the SSR to help oversee Project Rebirth, a program led by Howard Stark and Dr. Abraham Erskine to create an army of supersoldiers for the United States war effort. After a series of tests on different soldiers, the sickly Steve Rogers is chosen as their first test subject, due to his cunning and heroic character.
Carter escorts Rogers to a secret underground lab in Brooklyn, where Erskine injects Rogers with his Super Soldier Serum and doses him with vita-rays. Rogers emerges from the experiment as a super soldier, but an undercover Hydra agent, Heinz Kruger, kills Erskine and flees with the last vial of serum. Rogers and Carter pursue Kruger; Carter nearly kills him, but Rogers saves her from being hit by his vehicle. After the vial is destroyed and Kruger commits suicide upon capture, Carter and Rogers part ways when he is assigned to a research lab so that he could be studied, only for Rogers to be reassigned as a costumed mascot named "Captain America" to sell war bonds.
Helping Steve Rogers
Carter and Rogers reunite in Italy during his USO tour. After Rogers' best friend Bucky Barnes is captured by Hydra, Rogers has Carter and Howard Stark fly him behind enemy lines to mount a solo rescue attempt for Barnes and hundreds of other POWs, which succeeds. Returning to SSR Headquarters in London, England, Carter and Rogers develop feelings for each other, but Carter catches him being kissed by another woman, prompting her to become jealous and angrily fire bullets at Rogers' new shield when he shows it to her.
Carter, Rogers and his Howling Commandos continue to work together on numerous missions to defeat Hydra. When Barnes falls to his death while capturing Arnim Zola, Carter comforts Rogers. Zola's interrogation reveals the final Hydra stronghold, where Rogers leads an attack to stop Johann Schmidt from using weapons of mass destruction on America's cities. Rogers and Carter kiss before he climbs aboard Schmidt's aircraft as it takes off.
Carter later receives a radio transmission from Rogers, who reports Schmidt's death and that the plane is too damaged to land without the risk of detonating its weapons. The pair say their goodbyes, promising to dance with each other, before Rogers crashes the aircraft into the Arctic. With Roge
