Actor: Teyonah Parris

Teyonah Parris appeared in Mad Men and Dear White People before WandaVision gave her Monica Rambeau, requiring her to perform inside multiple decades of sitcom pastiche within a grief narrative.

Chi-Raq, for Spike Lee, gave her a lead in a film adapting Lysistrata to Chicago gun violence, and Candyman and The Marvels followed. She trained at Juilliard.