Thunderbolts star Julia Louis-Dreyfus shares whether she thinks her character, CIA Director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, is a hero or a villain. Valentina has made appearances in three Marvel productions so far: Black Widow, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, also known as Valentina or Val for short, is a supporting antagonist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She started out as a US government operative who became director of the CIA and is also the ex-wife of fellow agent Everett Ross.
Ross in a character poster for the 2018 film Black Panther. Martin Freeman portrays Everett Ross in media set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). This version was a member of the United States Air Force before joining the CIA and is the ex-husband of the latter's director Valentina Allegra de Fontaine.
De Fontaine appears in the film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) as the new director of the CIA and ex-wife of Everett K. Ross. Louis-Dreyfus will reprise her role as De Fontaine in the upcoming film Thunderbolts (2025).
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Are Ross and Fontaine married?
Ross was partnered with MI6 agent Clive Reston on a mission in Tehran. Reston blew Ross's cover during the mission, which Ross was rather bitter about. While in the CIA, Ross was married to Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, but they eventually got divorced.
Nakia appears in films set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), portrayed by Lupita Nyong'o. This version hails from Wakanda's River Tribe, is a former Dora Milaje who became a War Dog, an international spy for Wakanda, and was previously in a relationship with T'Challa. She first appears in Black Panther (2018).
The Central Intelligence Agency recruited American blacks in the late 1960's and early 1970's to spy on members of the Black Panther Party both in the United States and in Afriaa, according to former high‐level officials of the agency who have first‐hand knowledge of the operations.
Dominique Thorne makes her MCU debut as Riri Williams in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” The Marvel Cinematic Universe is continuing to expand its roster of next-generation heroes.
6 interview with Vogue, Coel talked about her character Aneka, a captain and combat instructor in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” and revealed she decided to play the fearless warrior after learning her character was queer. “That sold me on the role, the fact that my character's queer,” Coel said.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Valentina Allegra de Fontaine: The new director of the CIA and the ex-wife of Ross. Angela Bassett as Ramonda: The Sovereign Queen regnant of Wakanda who is grieving the death of her son T'Challa.
Historically, the Dora Milaje offers the tribes of Wakanda an opportunity to have their daughters presented as potential wives and trained as warriors to serve the king, the Black Panther, and thus the Panther God, which helps keep the peace across the nation.
Young Toussaint was kept hidden in Haiti to protect him from the pressures of the Wakandan throne -- explaining why Nakia didn't attend T'Challa's funeral -- but mentions Queen Ramonda got to meet him before she died.
At the end of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Nakia reveals to Shuri that she became pregnant with T'Challa's baby before he died and had his child, whom she raised in secret in Haiti. Shuri and the child, a son named Toussaint, meet at the end of the movie.
Nakia revealed that sometime after the events of Black Panther and before Avengers: Infinity War, she and T'Challa had a son. They may even have been secretly married.
Hayley Atwell starred as Peggy Carter in the series Agent Carter. Set in the immediate post-war years following the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, the series depicts Carter's advancement from routine office work to a position as a celebrated and well-respected agent of the Strategic Scientific Reserve.
Priscilla Fury is not a character in the Marvel Comics—she's been created just for the MCU. That being said, it's worth noting that Nick Fury does have a decades-long, on-again, off-again, torrid romantic affair with someone: the Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine.
Martin Freeman, who portrays Agent Everett Ross on Secret Invasion and in the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, said he doesn't believe his character has always been a Skrull. Freeman's comments come after Agent Ross was revealed to be Skull in the opening sequence of the first episode of Secret Invasion.
A self-proclaimed Emperor of Useless White Boys and U.S. State Department schlub, Everett K. Ross is more than just a self-deprecating government worker. He is the Special Attaché to foreign diplomats and most notably to King T'Challa, AKA Black Panther, of the technologically advanced African nation, Wakanda.
As it currently stands, there is no Black Panther 3 release date, since Marvel is yet to officially confirm the sequel. Assuming that does happen, then the sequel is still likely a few years off. The MCU has grown to be more expansive, and already has a packed slate running that includes movies releasing in 2026.
In MCU at the time of the movie vibranium is an extremely rare resources that has previously been used for weapon creation. CIA would want to control over the supply of the resource.
