Hayley Atwell

Hayley Elizabeth Atwell (born 5 April 1982) is a British actress. She is known for her work in stage productions such as A View from the Bridge, and onscreen, she is often cast in period pieces, such as the 2007 thriller Cassandra's Dream, the 2008 drama The Duchess, and the 2010 historical drama miniseries The Pillars of the Earth. She is best known for her portrayal of Peggy Carter in various films and television series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including the lead role in the ABC action-adventure series Agent Carter. 2Early life Hayley Elizabeth Atwell was born 5 April 1982 in London, an only child. Her father, Grant, is a part-Native American from Kansas City, Missouri photographer-turned-shaman who also goes by his Native American name, Star Touches Earth. Her mother Alison is British. Atwell has dual citizenship of the United Kingdom and the United States. By the time Atwell was two years old, Grant and Alison had separated. Grant returned to America, and Atwell and her mother lived in a bohemian enclave in the Ladbroke Grove area of west London, where Atwell was raised. While she visited her father in the United States every summer, she grew close to her mother, and has described their relationship as more akin to friends in the vein of "Ab Fab" than that of mother and daughte