Daredevil

American television series

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The television series Daredevil is an American superhero drama that aired on Netflix from 2015 to 2018. The series is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and stars Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who secretly fights crime as the vigilante Daredevil.12

Daredevil's origin story involves a childhood accident where he is blinded by radioactive material, but this also heightens his other senses, giving him superhuman abilities. Driven by the murder of his father, a boxer, Matt Murdock uses his legal skills by day and his enhanced abilities to fight injustice in Hell's Kitchen by night. The series explores his battles against criminals like Wilson Fisk, also known as the Kingpin.321

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…Marvel Cinematic Universe streaming series Daredevil (2015–18) and had the same part in the limited series Hawkeye (2021), Echo (2023–24), and Daredevil: Born Again (2025). Also in 2021 he portrayed Jerry Falwell in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a film drama based on the 2000 documentary of the same name,…
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…Marvel Cinematic Universe streaming series Daredevil (2015–18) and had the same part in the limited series Hawkeye (2021), Echo (2023–24), and Daredevil: Born Again (2025). Also in 2021 he portrayed Jerry Falwell in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a film drama based on the 2000 documentary of the same name,…
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