Batgirl Offers Ivory Aquino to Play DC Films’ First Transgender Character – The Hollywood Reporter

Ivory Aquino is on a trip to the DC universe, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. Aquino has joined the cast of Bat girl and will appear as Alysia Yeoh, best friend of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, the masked hero played by Leslie Grace.

Aquino is known for her work in 2017 LGBTQ rights skits When we wake up, which aired on ABC and saw her play rights activist Cecilia Chung. Her words Bat girl The casting has been rumored online after the Grace star shared a snap of the two of them together in an Instagram story earlier this month. Limit line was the first to officially confirm the news of Aquino joining the cast.

The addition of Aquino, who is transgender, is a major turning point for Warner Bros. DC Films division, with Aquino set to play the first openly transgender character in a DC live-action film. On the small screen, Nicole Maines plays transgender superhero Dreamer in The CW’s Superwoman starting in 2018. The series aired its last season in November. In 2019, actor Zach Barack, who is transgender, appeared in Marvel Studios’ Spider-Man: Far From Home is a classmate of Peter Parker.

Bat girl is scheduled to premiere on HBO Max and also includes Brendan Fraser as a villain and Michael Keaton returning as Batman, the hero he first played over 30 years ago in Tim Burton’s Batman. Other stars include JK Simmons as Commissioner Jim Gordon, father of Barbara Gordon. Ugly for life filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah are directing from a script by DC mainstay Christina Hodson, who penned The Flash and Birds of prey. No release date has been set for Bat girl, currently produced in the UK

Aquino is represented by A3 Artists Agency, Industry Entertainment.