Marvel and ABC’s upcoming Captain America spin-off Agent Carter has found its male lead, with Deadline revealing that Boardwalk Empire star Shea Whigham has signed on to star opposite Hayley Atwell’s Peggy Carter as Roger Dooley, head of the Strategic Scientific Reserve, the precursor to S.H.I.E.L.D..
Agent Carter is set to premiere in January 2015 and will air during the midseason break of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., with a cast that also includes Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse) as Agent Daniel Sousa, Chad Michael Murray (One Tree Hill) as Agent Jack Thompson and James D’Arcy (Let’s Be Cops) as Jarvis, butler to Howard Stark.
Hayley Atwell will next be seen as Peggy Carter in tonight’s season two premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., where she will feature in flashbacks alongside Howling Commandos Dum Dum Dugan (Neal McDonough) and Jim Morita (Kenneth Choi).
