Kick-Ass actress Lyndsy Fonseca has joined the cast of Marvel’s Agent Carter as Peggy Carter’s friend Angie Martinelli.

We may still have quite a few more weeks until the upcoming Marvel television series Agent Carter graces our screens on a weekly basis, but that doesn’t mean that fans should have to wait that long for all the juicy casting news.

It would seem as if there are still plenty of pieces of the puzzle to reveal. Marvel has officially announced that Kick-Ass and Nikita actress Lyndsy Fonseca has officially joined the cast of Marvel’s Agent Carter.

The beautiful actress will be playing the role of a woman by the name of Angie Martinelli.

Just in case you don’t recognize Fonseca from one of her many starring roles, there is one place that you may not realize is her but that you have seen plenty of times. Fonseca is the woman behind “The Daughter” from the highly successful CBS Series How I Met Your Mother.

It would seem as if Martinelli has a lot in common with her friend Agent Carter. The premise for the new series surrounds Peggy Carter as she finds herself in a wildly marginalized role in the world following the end of World War II.

She now works for Howard Stark, and begins to go on secret missions to defend the world from all of those things that await us in the darkness and seek to do the world harm.

It will be interesting to see how they expose Agent Carter to the much bigger scope of the Marvel Universe as she prepares to step into the spotlight. After appearing in the first Captain America film, and later in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Agent Carter was the subject of a Marvel One-Shot of the same name.

Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely have penned the script for the first episode of the new series, and will also serve as Executive Producers along with Marvel’s Jeph Loeb and Reaper creators Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas.

Both Butter and Fazekas will be taking on the role of showrunners for the series.

Fonseca is not the only recognizable name attached to the new show. In addition to Hayley Atwell, who as you know plays the title character in the series, Agent Carter stars Alexander Carroll, Dominic Cooper, James D’Arcy, Chad Michael Murray, and more.

Agent Carter is scheduled to begin in January of 2015.

[H/T: Marvel]