Captain Marvel
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The film Captain Marvel, released in 2019 and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, features Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, a U.S. Air Force pilot who becomes the superhero Captain Marvel. This character, originally created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan for Marvel Comics, has a complex history. The name Captain Marvel was first used in 1939 for a Fawcett Comics character, Billy Batson, who transformed into "Earth's mightiest mortal" by saying Shazam!.12
The Marvel Comics version, debuting in 1967, was initially the Kree warrior Mar-Vell. Over time, Carol Danvers took on the mantle of Ms. Marvel and later Captain Marvel, becoming a prominent female hero in the Marvel Universe. The 2019 film was a major success, grossing over $1 billion worldwide, and Larson reprised her role in Avengers: Endgame.213
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Annette BeningCareer…cast in the superhero movie Captain Marvel (2019). In 2022 she starred in director Kenneth Branagh’s mystery film Death on the Nile and in the comedy-drama Jerry and Marge Go Large opposite Bryan Cranston. She garnered her fifth Oscar nomination for her portrayal of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the…
Read More…cast in the superhero movie Captain Marvel (2019). In 2022 she starred in director Kenneth Branagh’s mystery film Death on the Nile and in the comedy-drama Jerry and Marge Go Large opposite Bryan Cranston. She garnered her fifth Oscar nomination for her portrayal of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad in the…
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Gemma ChanParts in the late 2010s and early 2020s…Minn-Erva in the Marvel film Captain Marvel (2019). She then garnered opportunities to act alongside Meryl Streep in Let Them All Talk (2020), playing the literary agent to Streep’s acclaimed novelist; provide the voice for the warrior princess Namaari in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon (2021); take on her…
Read More…Minn-Erva in the Marvel film Captain Marvel (2019). She then garnered opportunities to act alongside Meryl Streep in Let Them All Talk (2020), playing the literary agent to Streep’s acclaimed novelist; provide the voice for the warrior princess Namaari in Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon (2021); take on her…
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Brie LarsonEmbodying Captain Marvel and later works…who becomes a superhero, in Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and The Marvels (2023). Larson’s other credits in 2019 included the drama Just Mercy, about a civil-rights attorney’s efforts to free an innocent man on death row.
Read More…who becomes a superhero, in Captain Marvel (2019), Avengers: Endgame (2019), and The Marvels (2023). Larson’s other credits in 2019 included the drama Just Mercy, about a civil-rights attorney’s efforts to free an innocent man on death row.
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Jude LawOther films… (2022)—and the antagonist Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019), starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. He played Captain Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy (2023), Henry VIII in Firebrand (2023), and Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025).
Read More… (2022)—and the antagonist Yon-Rogg in Captain Marvel (2019), starring Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson. He played Captain Hook in Peter Pan & Wendy (2023), Henry VIII in Firebrand (2023), and Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin (2025).
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