All 24 Actors who Appeared in Both the MCU and ‘Black Mirror’
The Marvel Cinematic Universe and ‘Black Mirror’ might live in different storytelling galaxies, but plenty of performers have bridged them—suited up as superheroes or scene-stealing side characters on one side, then diving into tech-twisted morality tales on the other. The overlap runs from headlining Avengers to blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameos that still make for fun connections.
Here’s a complete rundown of everyone who has credits in both. For each person, you’ll see their key MCU appearance(s) and the specific ‘Black Mirror’ episode(s) where they show up, with quick context on what they did in each world.
Anthony Mackie
In the MCU, Anthony Mackie plays Sam Wilson—first as Falcon and later as Captain America—across titles like ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘Avengers: Endgame’, and ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’. His arc tracks a pararescue veteran who becomes an Avenger, then the shield-bearer shaping the next era of Earth’s heroes.
Mackie leads ‘Black Mirror’ episode ‘Striking Vipers’ as Danny, a husband whose friendship rekindles through a hyper-immersive fighting game. The story follows how virtual embodiment and avatar identity complicate intimacy, consent, and the boundaries between play and real life.
Hayley Atwell
Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter anchors the MCU’s early espionage lineage in ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, ‘Agent Carter’, and appearances in ‘Avengers: Endgame’ and ‘What If…?’. She’s a founding S.H.I.E.L.D. figure whose choices ripple through multiple heroes’ paths.
Atwell stars in ‘Black Mirror’ episode ‘Be Right Back’ as Martha, who turns to a service that reconstructs a deceased partner’s personality from digital traces. The episode follows the escalating steps from chat to embodiment, examining grief and the unsettling limits of synthetic companionship.
Daniel Kaluuya
Daniel Kaluuya plays W’Kabi in ‘Black Panther’, the Border Tribe security chief whose loyalties and frustrations with Wakanda’s isolation fuel pivotal political turns. His relationships inside the royal court shape the conflict’s stakes.
Kaluuya headlines ‘Fifteen Million Merits’ as Bing, trapped in a treadmill economy that monetizes attention and humiliation. His bid to break the system lays out the show’s critique of exploitative entertainment and the costs of performative rebellion.
Letitia Wright
Letitia Wright’s Shuri is Wakanda’s chief innovator in ‘Black Panther’ and beyond, fusing vibranium science with quick-witted problem-solving. Her inventions, tactics, and leadership push Wakanda into the center of global heroics.
In ‘Black Museum’, Wright plays Nish, a traveler who tours an exhibit of ethically dubious tech artifacts. The frame story stitches together cautionary mini-tales that culminate in a confrontation about exploitation and retribution.
Benedict Wong
Benedict Wong serves as Wong in ‘Doctor Strange’, ‘Avengers: Infinity War’, ‘Avengers: Endgame’, ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’, and more, coordinating mystical defenses and mentoring heroes in crises that span the multiverse.
Wong appears in ‘Hated in the Nation’ as Shaun Li, a government liaison drawn into a probe of autonomous micro-drones hijacked by mass online outrage. His presence sits at the junction of law enforcement, private contractors, and political damage control.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Gugu Mbatha-Raw portrays Judge Ravonna Renslayer in ‘Loki’, a TVA power broker whose history and loyalties intertwine with the organization’s founding myths and its hidden architect.
She co-leads ‘San Junipero’ as Kelly, whose romance with Yorkie unfolds across a simulated coastal town. The episode follows their choices about love, memory, and the promise—and price—of a digital afterlife.
Michaela Coel
Michaela Coel joins the MCU in ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ as Aneka, a Dora Milaje warrior whose tactics and perspective broaden Wakanda’s elite guard.
Coel appears in ‘Nosedive’, set in a rating-obsessed world, and in ‘USS Callister’, as a colleague inside a game studio with a toxic power imbalance. Both stories sketch how social systems and code architecture amplify status games and abuse.
Pom Klementieff
Pom Klementieff is Mantis in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’, later appearing in ensemble clashes like ‘Avengers: Infinity War’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’. Her empathy powers and disarming candor prove crucial in tense standoffs.
She shows up in ‘Striking Vipers’ as Roxette, an in-game combatant in the VR fighter that two friends return to nightly. The episode uses her avatar’s presence to explore desire, identity, and the blurry line between simulation and self.
Wyatt Russell
Wyatt Russell plays John Walker in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’, a decorated soldier tapped to wear the shield. His arc examines symbols, accountability, and where service ends and power begins.
Russell leads ‘Playtest’ as Cooper, who demos a cutting-edge horror experience for a secretive studio. The trial bends perception into a feedback loop of fear, memory, and suggestion, pushing the premise to its harsh endpoint.
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek enters the MCU in ‘Eternals’ as Ajak, the team’s spiritual anchor and interpreter of their cosmic mandate. Her guidance frames the group’s debates over duty, autonomy, and humanity.
In ‘Joan Is Awful’, Hayek portrays a stylized version of herself playing a stylized version of someone else, inside a show-within-a-show produced by a streaming giant. The episode unpacks image rights, consent, and algorithmic content mills.
Hannah John-Kamen
Hannah John-Kamen plays Ava Starr, a.k.a. Ghost, in ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’, a fugitive with unstable phasing whose condition drives uneasy alliances between scientists and thieves.
She appears in ‘Playtest’ as Sonja, a journalist who crosses paths with the lead before his fateful demo, and also features in ‘Fifteen Million Merits’. Her roles connect protagonists to media ecosystems that commodify trauma and talent.
Will Poulter
Will Poulter debuts as Adam Warlock in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’, a bio-engineered powerhouse whose emergence tangles with the Guardians’ mission and his makers’ designs.
Poulter is Colin Ritman in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’, an influential game designer who mentors—and destabilizes—a young programmer. He returns in ‘Plaything’, extending that universe’s look at creativity, control, and branching consequences.
Wunmi Mosaku
Wunmi Mosaku is Hunter B-15 in ‘Loki’ and appears in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’, positioning a TVA field leader amid multiversal triage and policy pivots during reality-scale emergencies.
She’s Katie in ‘Playtest’, the handler monitoring an experimental horror build, and TV Joan’s lawyer in ‘Joan Is Awful’. Both parts place her at the interface where corporate systems translate human vulnerability into data, product, and spectacle.
Paul G. Raymond
Paul G. Raymond appears in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ as a TVA office agent, part of the bureaucratic machinery keeping time-policing operations running during cross-franchise chaos.
He plays Kabir Dudani in ‘USS Callister’ and returns in ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity’, the diagnostics whiz on a virtual starship fighting for agency. His character charts the precarious line between skilled labor and coerced digital servitude.
Anna Wilson-Jones
Anna Wilson-Jones shows up in ‘Secret Invasion’ as a surgeon, grounding the series’ cloak-and-dagger stakes with a brief medical intervention tied to the fallout of covert action.
She appears in ‘The National Anthem’ as Jane Callow, whose proximity to a political scandal draws out the episode’s focus on media pressure, public appetite, and the bargaining of dignity under a social microscope.
Emma Corrin
Emma Corrin joins the MCU in ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ as Cassandra Nova, a formidable telepath whose presence escalates the film’s psychic and strategic stakes.
Corrin co-stars in ‘Hotel Reverie’ as Dorothy, an actor working inside an AI-driven virtual production that remakes a classic film. The episode follows performance, authorship, and consent when sets, scenes, and partners are software.
Awkwafina
Awkwafina plays Katy in ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’, a grounded friend whose courage—and archery chops—pull a civilian viewpoint into mythic conflict.
She appears in ‘Hotel Reverie’ as Kimmy, part of the production orbit around an actor navigating a simulation-based remake. Her role sits within the episode’s look at how AI-tooled filmmaking reshapes creative control and relationships.
Anjana Vasan
Anjana Vasan turns up in the MCU as a Queens reporter in ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’, one of several on-the-ground perspectives during the film’s post-Blip media swirl.
She leads ‘Demon 79’ as Nida Huq and also pops up in ‘Nosedive’ as a silver-painted Space Cop, plus a brief gamer cameo in ‘USS Callister: Into Infinity’. Across those appearances, her characters trace the show’s range—from supernatural deal-making to social-rating cosplay to a multiverse crossover beat.
Claire Rushbrook
Claire Rushbrook is Janice—part of Mysterio’s crew—in ‘Spider-Man: Far From Home’, a former Stark Industries employee aiding the Elementals deception and its media stagecraft.
She appears in ‘Crocodile’ as a detective investigating a series of crimes uncovered through memory-extraction tech. Her role threads procedure through a story about surveillance, culpability, and the terrifying clarity of recorded recall.
Asim Chaudhry
Asim Chaudhry voices and performance-captures Teefs in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’, one of Rocket’s fellow test-subjects whose scenes inform the film’s emotional core.
He’s Mohan Thakur in ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ and returns in ‘Plaything’, the swaggering Tuckersoft boss whose commercial instincts collide with creative obsession and dangerous code. Together the appearances map the franchise’s gaming-industry strand.
Kate Mara
Kate Mara appears in the MCU with a cameo as a U.S. Marshal in ‘Iron Man 2’, a quick brush with Stark’s orbit that nods to wider federal-superhero touchpoints.
She co-stars in ‘Beyond the Sea’ as Lana Stanfield, whose family life becomes entangled with mind-transfer technology used by astronauts. The episode follows how grief, distance, and borrowed embodiment fracture trust and safety at home.
Chris O’Dowd
Chris O’Dowd is Richard in ‘Thor: The Dark World’, the well-meaning date whose evening with Jane Foster gets upended when gods and portals reenter the picture.
He leads ‘Common People’ as Mike Waters, a husband navigating a subscription-based medical service that sustains his wife with synthetic brain tissue. The story tracks predatory pricing, coerced online labor, and the human costs of platform-mediated care.
Amanda Warren
Amanda Warren appears in Marvel’s Defenders-saga corner as Doctor Gallo in ‘Jessica Jones’ (“AKA Smile”), grounding the series’ hospital scenes within Metro-General’s orbit.
She portrays Angelica in ‘Black Museum’, a key figure in the episode’s nested tales whose family history links to the exhibit’s most disturbing artifact. Her role centers the human stakes behind the attraction’s tech-horror souvenirs.
Ben Barnes
Ben Barnes is Billy Russo—later Jigsaw—in ‘The Punisher’, a former special forces operative whose private-military ambitions and personal betrayals drive the series’ central feud.
He appears in ‘Joan Is Awful’ as TV Mac, the show-within-the-show version of Joan’s ex, used by a streaming platform’s dramatization to blur truth and performance. His presence helps the episode dissect image ownership and the flattening of real lives into content.
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