RuPaul's Drag Race winner Shea Couleé joins the cast of Marvel's Ironheart
The Disney Plus series will follow the adventures of teen genius Riri Williams after her introduction in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

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RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Shea Couleé is the latest actor to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. As reported by Deadline, she has been cast in the upcoming Disney+ series Ironheart. According to further confirmation from Entertainment Weekly, Couleé will be a series regular, though there are no hints about the nature of the role or whether it will involve being in or out of drag.
Comics readers have already started speculating that Couleé will be playing a character she inspired. Created by Sina Grace, Shade is a drag queen superhero who also uses the alias Darkveil. “I always toyed with the idea of a drag queen who becomes a reluctant hero,” Grace describes in a 2019 essay for PopSugar.