Supergirl Adds Rhona Mitra to Play DC Villainess Mercy Graves in Season 4
Supergirl will be showing us a little Mercy next season: Rhona Mitra (The Last Ship) is joining the Season 4 cast of The CW‘s superhero drama in a season-long recurring role as villainess Mercy Graves, our sister site Deadline is reporting.
Mercy Graves is known from the comics as super villain Lex Luthor’s longtime bodyguard. “But with both Lex and Lillian in prison,” according to the official description, “Mercy is stepping out of the Luthor shadow and running her own show. With her biting wit and lethal brawn, Mercy steadily becomes a key figure in National City’s growing ‘human-first’ movement.”
Plus, Robert Baker (Grey’s Anatomy, The Originals) is joining the cast in a recurring role as Mercy’s brother Otis. He serves as Mercy’s right-hand man: “What he lacks in brains, he makes up for with his savant-like abilities to assassinate aliens.” Season 4 of Supergirl kicks off Sunday, Oct. 14 at 8/7c on The CW.
Mitra’s recent roles include TNT’s The Last Ship, FX’s The Strain and Cinemax’s Strike Back. She also appeared in multiple episodes of Nip/Tuck, Boston Legal, The Practice and Party of Five.
Is Otis a reference to the Superman movies with Christopher reeves
Otisberg?
It’s just an itty bitty place.
Otisberg?!
Yes I do think that’s who is like Eve also from the Christopher Reeves movie
Mitra does solid work and I loved Mercy in the mid 90’s Superman cartoon. Not really crazy about the faux Nazi angle but time will tell.
Worst part of Boston Legal. Hate her as an actress. She’s very wooden.
She was fantastic on The Last Ship!
^ true dat!!
Will Supergirl visit Otisburg? Its a little itty-bitty place.
Love Rhona. Nice to see the AV plucking another character out of comic mythos.
Nah; they lost me back at the Trans-gender Superhero
Rhona is awesome and she has proven how badass she is when she played Sonya in Underworld: Rise of the Lycans to perfection.
It`s obvious how much the showunners want Lex Luthor on the show as they keep bringing in elements of the character. Lena, Lillian, even Lex battle suit and now Mercy Graves.
The character Tess Mercer on Smallville (who was in fact that shows version of Lena) was sort of a hybrid between Lena and Mercy (Oliver Queen even nicknamed her “Mercy” which was an obvious reference). Though Tess eventually went down a very different road then Lena or Mercy, becoming Smallvilles version of superhero Red Tornado instead.
I really hope with DCs plans for Lex in movies mostly scratched for now, they will be able to bring him into Supergirl (or the Arrowverse) at some point. Same goes for Lois Lane. It`s time.
I wish there were more crossovers with Team Flash. Barry and Kara have chemistry even it only as friends.
I love her. Her accent gives me shivers. (The good kind.)
Rhona Mitra is always excellent, even in some crappy action movies. The Last Ship lost me when she was inexplicably and scandalously unceremoniously killed off. She is someone who always exudes power and strength, and I think she will be great as a baddie. Lots of new characters announced for the new season, hope they don’t neglect Alex, Lena and the others
More importantly she was also a Lara Croft model.
She was the original model for Lara Croft…