After watching Florence Kasumba play Senator Acantha in the newly released Wonder Woman movie, and realizing she was the same actress who played Security Chief Ayo in Captain America: Civil War, the question arose: How many actors have been in both the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)?
SCIFI.radio isn’t the first to ask the question. There are several articles about which actors have been in both DC and Marvel movies. However, not all DC movies are DCEU movies and not all Marvel movies are MCU movies. This makes the calculations a little more tricky. So far, only five actors have appeared in the DCEU and the MCU.

Florence Kasumba as Wicked Witch of the East in EMERALD CITY [Photo by Rico Torres/NBC]

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc [photo by Clay Enos/Warner Bros.]

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Atticus in POMPEII [image via TriStar Pictures]

Russell Crowe and Ayelet Zurer as Jor-El and Lara with baby Kal-El [photo by Clay Enos/Warner Bros.]
Callan Mulvey: He played Jack Rollins, a SHIELD agent secretly working for Hydra, in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, he played Anatoli Knyazev, who in this incarnation is a mercenary rather than the Russian agent KGBeast. He will be appearing in the horror film Delirium and the science fiction film Bleeding Steel, both due to be released later this year.
Scoot McNairy: He played Wallace Keefe, an employee of Wayne Enterprises, in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He starred in the MCU one-shot, All Hail the King, as a member of the Ten Rings gang, posing as a documentary filmmaker to interview Trevor Slattery. He was Andrew Kaulder in Monsters, as well as Augie in the Disney reboot Herbie: Fully Loaded.
Other actors have been in DC and Marvel movies and TV shows (Ben Affleck as Batman and Daredevil, Halle Berry as Catwoman and Storm, Rila Fukushima as Katana and Yukio), but in each case, either only one of those movies or TV shows were considered officially part of the DCEU and MCU, or neither of them were.
One thing each of these actors has in common is that they’re all truly talented individuals. That’s probably why you keep seeing their faces. One thing is certain: the best is yet to come.
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Susan Macdonald is the author of the children’s book “R is for Renaissance Faire”, as well as 26 short stories, mostly fantasy in “Alternative Truths”, “Swords and Sorceress #30”, Swords &Sorceries Vols. 1, 2, & 5, “Cat Tails” “Under Western Stars”, and “Knee-High Drummond and the Durango Kid”. Her articles have appeared on SCIFI.radio’s web site, in The Inquisitr, and in The Millington Star. She enjoys Renaissance Faires (see book above), science fiction conventions, Highland Games, and Native American pow-wows.