Agent Carter Debuted 10 Years Ago: What Has Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Been Up to Since? Will We See Her Again?

Ten years ago today, on Jan. 6, 2015, TV got its second MCU “crossover” series, with Marvel’s Agent Carter.

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Created by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and showrun by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas, Agent Carter of course starred Hayley Atwell, the English actress whose MCU run began with the 2011 film Captain America: The First Avenger (opposite Chris Evans).

MI6-turned-Strategic Scientific Reserve agent Peggy Carter’s story was fleshed out some in the 2013 Marvel One-Shot (i.e. made-for-home video, live-action short) Agent Carter, after which the character was seen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and a pair of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 episodes.

Opening a Tuesday night, Marvel’s Agent Carter‘s double-episode premiere averaged 6.9 million total viewers and a 1.9 demo rating, improving on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.‘s most recent tallies at the time (5.3 mil/1.7) and giving ABC its best rating in the time slot since November 2013.

TVLine readers gave the series’ launch an average grade of “A” — the same grade earned by the entirety of the eight-episode Season 1.

Season 2 opened in January 2016 with just 3.3 million total viewers and a 1.0 demo rating, with a second episode posting series lows of 3 mil and a 0.9. That March, Agent Carter closed out its 10-episode sophomore run with just 2.35 million total viewers and a 0.7 demo rating, hitting and tying series lows.

TVLine readers gave Season 2 an average grade of “A-.”

Weeks ahead of Agent Carter‘s Season 2 finale, a first shoe dropped: Atwell landed the lead in the ABC drama plot Conviction. The talk at the time was that even if both Conviction and Agent Carter landed on ABC’s 2016-17 schedule, “I think they would have figured something out,” Atwell told TVLine, “in terms of making a [Marvel’s Agent Carter] special, or waiting until we finished this season [of Conviction] and then doing something.”

In TVLine’s Keep or Cut poll that spring, Agent Carter drew the fourth-largest amount of support for renewal, trailing only CBS’ Elementary and Blue Bloods, and Fox’s The X-Files revival.

Alas, 10 weeks after Agent Carter‘s finale dropped, so did the second shoe: The Marvel series officially got the hook, the same day that ABC ordered Conviction to series. Atwell, though, was resolved to playing Peggy Carter again some day.

“It’s still a much-loved show for the people involved in the making of it, and we know it has a special place in the fans’ hearts,” Atwell told TVLine in August 2016, ahead of Conviction‘s ABC debut. “And that’s something that I would be very happy to go back to, if the opportunity came” in the form of a TV-movie or whatever.

“The great thing about Peggy is we know she lives a long life,” Atwell reminded. “I’m banking on when I’m in my 50s, saying, ‘Let’s see what Peggy’s up in this decade!’”

What has Peggy been up to since and preceding (#TimeTravel!) the events of Agent Carter‘s Season 2 finale?

For one thing, we know that the character got a happy ending (and apparently exchanged wedding rings!) with Steve Rogers, as revealed at the close of the 2019 blockbuster Avengers: Endgame.

Fret not too much, fans of Agent Carter‘s well-teased Peggy/Daniel Sousa romance: Enver Gjokaj’s character got his own happy ending by way of Agents of SHIELD‘s final season (again, #TimeTravel!), at the end of which Sousa Zephyred off into the sunset with the formidable Daisy Johnson aka Quake (played by Chloe Bennet).

In addition to her Endgame cameo, Atwell voiced the animated What If…? anthology’s alternate version of Peggy — one who took the Super Soldier Serum herself, wielded the Captain Carter mantle and shield, and who had been thrust into time- and reality-hopping adventures.

On the live-action front, the 2022 film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness surprised us with Atwell’s appearance as an Earth-838 version of Peggy, whose Captain Carter was a member of the powerful (well, at least on paper) Illuminati.

No three-year-old spoilers here, but… Multiverse of Madness famously did Peggy (and her fans) pretty dirty — which even Atwell herself had to clock.

“I’m like, ‘Oh. That doesn’t really serve Peggy very well,’” the actress shared during an August 2023 podcast.

Atwell went so far as to note that the Peggy Carter of Disney+’s What If…? was given “much more to do” than her live-action counterpart. “So it felt like a frustrating moment in [Doctor] Strange, because you’re like, ‘She had less to do than what she did before she had the shield!’”

Perhaps an upcoming MCU Phase 6 film can right things?

Though of course unconfirmed by Marvel, Atwell is rumored to be reprising her role as (some form/variation) of Peggy Carter in Avengers: Doomsday, which is due in theaters May 2026 and will find Robert Downey Jr. playing the supervillain Victor von Doom aka Doctor Doom.

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