Headline art by Francesco Manna, as seen in 2019’s Tony Stark: Iron Man #17.
Deadline reports British actress T’Nia Miller (The Fall of the House of Usher) has been cast as Jocasta on Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series Vision Quest (working title). Originally created by Jim Shooter and George Pérez for 1977’s The Avengers #162, Jocasta was initially introduced as the Bride to Ultron’s Frankenstein monster, and will reportedly be portrayed on the show as a cunning and vengeful antagonist.
Created by Terry Matalas, Vision Quest will be released sometime in 2026, and follow Paul Bettany‘s amnesiac synthezoid after the events of 2021’s WandaVision. It will also feature James Spader, reprising the role of Ultron for the first time since 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the return of Faran Tahir as Raza, the Ten Rings cell leader from 2008’s Iron Man, as well as Todd Stashwick and Ruaridh Mollica in undisclosed roles.
In addition to Fall of the House of Usher, T’Nia Miller, 40, has appeared in Foundation, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Years and Years, Sex Education, La Fortuna, Doctor Who, Banana & Cucumber, and many more British and American projects. She is Black, which is in-line with how her character’s human form has been recently portrayed in the comics.
Incidentally, this won’t mark Jocasta’s debut outside the comics, as the character briefly appeared in the 2008 DTV animated film Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (voiced by an uncredited Nicole Oliver), and as an unprogrammed shell in The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes (2010-2012)’s adaptation of her debut.
More pertinently, there was an Easter egg for the character in Age of Ultron, where her name appeared on the one of the AIs Robert Downey Jr.‘s Tony Stark considered replacing Vision/J.A.R.V.I.S. with, before choosing F.R.I.D.A.Y. (voiced by Kerry Condon); it remains to be seen if the show will acknowledge this piece of continuity or not.
