Dawson will voice Barbara Gordon, the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon who later becomes the crime-fighting heroine Batgirl.

Chris McKay, the animation supervisor on Lego Movie, is directing the project, which has a script written by author-screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith.

Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the custodians of the Lego screen brand, are producing.

Dawson is a huge comic book fan (she even co-created her own comic, O.C.T.: Occult Crimes Taskforce) who recently wrapped shooting a co-starring role on season two of Netflix and Marvel’s Daredevil, playing the Night Nurse, a character she will also play in Netflix and Marvel’s Luke Cage.

The actress is no stranger to voice work, having loaned her pipes to Wonder Woman in DC’s Justice League: Throne of Atlantis and Artemis in Wonder Woman.

She is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and Bloom Hergott.