Over the last years, each Marvel Cinematic Universe phase has seen its share of actors and actresses come and go. Elizabeth Olsen has been a MCU head figure name ever since her first appearance as Wanda Maximoff in 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron. Since then, she has had the chance to work with household names, such as British actor Benedict Cumberbatch, with whom she will appear in Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness. But she has also encountered some familiar faces outside of the franchise. Here are some of those times when she crossed paths with fellow MCU actors in other projects.
Janet McTeer
In 2018, Olsen was playing the lead Leigh Shaw in Kit Steinkellner's series Sorry for Your Loss, and McTeer was her on-screen mother, Amy, the proprietor of a fitness studio.
That same year, Janet McTeer joined the MCU as Alisa Jones in Jessica Jones. The show was highly praised, and so did she, for another brilliant portrayal of a protagonist's mother. Sadly, she was only there for eleven episodes, but that was enough for this Officer of the Order of the British Empire to leave a mark on the show, as well as on MCU history.
Krysten Ritter
Krysten Ritter's complex performance in Jessica Jones as the show's main character has left MCU fans asking for more, especially after the show's cancelation.
In 2022, Ritter is set to star alongside Elizabeth Olsen in Love and Death. This HBO Max miniseries is based on the life of Candy Montgomery (played by Olsen), a Texan housewife who murders her friend, Betty Gore, in June 1980. It is inspired by the true events told in Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs, by Jim Atkinson and Joe Bob Briggs. Krysten Ritter will be portraying Sherry Cleckler, Montgomery's best friend.
Josh Brolin
In Spike Lee's 2013 Oldboy, Brolin played Joe Doucett, a kidnapping victim in search of answers and vengeance, and Olsen appeared as Marie Sebastian, a nurse who tries to help him.
Throughout his career, Brolin has done a bit of everything, but one of his most famous roles was as the Titan Thanos. His MCU debut occurred in an uncredited cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy, and since then he has become a key character in the franchise, responsible for wiping out half of the universe. In fact, Olsen's Wanda had the chance to come face to face with him in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, both of which offered fans a glimpse of the extent of her powers.
Sigourney Weaver
In 2012, the Spanish-American production Red Lights had managed to bring together Sigourney Weaver as a university psychology professor called Margaret Matheson and Elizabeth Olsen as Sally Owen.
Five years later, Weaver would become Alexandra Reid in the crossover miniseries The Defenders, where Marvel's heroes like Daredevil, Punisher, and Jessica Jones join forces to fight the Hand. Reid is one of the Hand's "fingers", a powerful figure in the New York crime organization. For someone who has played a lot of different roles, this was yet another chance at playing an intelligent and motivated character.
Jeremy Renner
Actor Jeremy Renner needs no introductions. This is especially true for Marvel fans who have seen his Clint Barton/Hawkeye grow from a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent into one of the best Avengers' characters of the MCU.
In 2017, Renner starred as Cory Lambert, an U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent, in the murder mystery Wind River. Three years after Lambert's daughter's death, he finds a frozen body in the Wind River Indian Reservation, Wyoming, and joins Jane Banner, a rookie FBI special agent played by Elizabeth Olsen, in the pursuit of the killer. Their onset chemistry was instrumental in the movie's multiple award nominations and wins, including at the 2017 Cannes Festival.
Wyatt Russell
Russell is a fairly recent addition to the MCU as John Walker, the new Captain America appointed by the US government to help face the violence in the post-Blip period.
Back in 2017, he had played Olsen's on-screen husband Ezra O'Keefe in Matt Spicer's comedy Ingrid Goes West. The WandaVision star portrays a selfish social media influencer called Taylor Sloane, who befriends a mentally unstable woman, Ingrid (played by Legion alum Aubrey Plaza). With Russell's recent MCU debut in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, there is a high chance that they will be acting together again in the future.
Clark Gregg
One of the most recognizable faces of Marvel, Clark Gregg gives life to S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson in several movies and TV shows.
He reunited with Olsen in the 2013 drama Very Good Girls, playing Edward Berger, the father of Olsen's character Gerri Fields' best friend. Despite his role being secondary, Berger's extramarital affair helped move the plot forward and further provided tension to the girls' relationship, which was the movie's main focus.
Tom Hiddleston
After recently starring in one of the best multiverse TV shows, few doubts remain regarding Tom Hiddleston's mastery in his role as Loki.
Time and time again, he proves his acting skills across genres, and one such examples is the biographic I Saw the Light. It tells a dramatized version of the life of Hank Williams, played by Hiddleston, a famous country and blues singer and songwriter. Elizabeth Olsen is Audrey Sheppard Williams, Hank's first wife and partner.
Oscar Isaac
The MCU most recent series has introduced Oscar Isaac as Moon Knight, an avatar of Egyptian god Khonshu with dissociative identity disorder.
Almost ten years ago, Isaac and Olsen worked together in Charlie Stratton's In Secret. He played Laurent LeClaire, Thérèse Raquin's (portrayed by Olsen) lover who ends up killing her husband, Camille. The movie was inspired by Thérèse Raquin, an 1867 classic novel by French writer Émile Zola and was released at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. It remains to be seen whether they get the chance to reunite in future MCU projects.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Pietro Maximoff's time in the MCU appeared to be counted from the beginning, with his sad death in Age Of Ultron cutting directly to his sister Wanda and the audiences' hearts.
For fans, their on-screen chemistry as brother and sister was undeniably good. However, in the previous year, the pair had proven that they were more than able to portray other kinds of relationships. In the 2014 Godzilla, Taylor-Johnson plays a US Navy lieutenant married to Olsen's character, Elle Brody, a nurse at San Francisco General Hospital. From then onwards, Elizabeth Olsen And Aaron Taylor-Johnson worked together in three movies set in the MCU.