Crimson Countess is preparing to make her premiere in the third season of Amazon Prime’s superhero series, The Boys. According to Screen Rant, Crimson Countess will be played by Laurie Holden who is best known for her role as Andrea Harrison from the first three seasons of The Walking Dead.
Holden is not the only casting addition for The Boys‘ third season. According to Screen Rant, Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) has been cast as Soldier Boy, and Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints) will be playing the supe known as Gunpowder.
Via Screen Rant, Crimson Countess is a character from the original The Boys comics created by Garth Ennis (writer, The Boys) and Darick Robertson (illustrator, The Boys). Created as a parody of Marvel’s Scarlet Witch character, Crimson Countess has slightly lesser powers than her MCU counterpart, but does have the ability to fly and generate heat at will.
Since both Soldier Boy and Crimson Countess are going to be major players in The Boys‘ third season, many are speculating that the series will see Crimson Countess as her original iteration, a World War II super team member named Payback. According to Screen Rant, the third season is preparing to tackle Soldier Boy’s origin story, which will likely include Holden as Payback.
For now, Holden has been billed as a recurring cast member, meaning she may not appear in every episode, but will more than likely be in a majority of the season’s episodes. Holden’s character certainly has a deep history in The Boys‘ universe to draw from, both in the comics and in earlier seasons of the television series. According to Screen Rant, an episode in season one referenced the Crimson Countess when Starlight (played by Erin Moriarty, Captain Fantastic) theorized she may serve as a new member of The Seven.