High-school hero
TV & Satellite Week|June 04, 2022
Iman Vellani stars as a teenage superhero in Disney+'s new series
JUDY EWENS, RICHARD MCCLURE, STEVEN PERKINS
High-school hero

Ms Marvel

Available: Wednesday 8 June

Genre: Superhero drama

Season: 1 Episodes: 6 (released weekly)

Kamala Khan - AKA Ms Marvel - made history in 2014 as the first Muslim superhero to have her own Marvel comic-book series. Eight years on, she breaks new ground again when she becomes the first Muslim hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

The action-packed six-part series stars 19-year-old Canadian newcomer Iman Vellani in the title role.

'This is my first job - it was my first audition, period, Vellani tells TV& Satellite Week as we join her for a video call. 'I was a huge fan of the comics, and of the MCU in general, when I was growing up.

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