Elodie Yung (G.I. Joe Retaliation, District 13: Ultimatum) will play Elektra in the second season of the Netflix Daredevil series, which will stream in 2016.  Jon Bernthal will also join the Daredevil cast in Season 2 playing Frank Castle (aka The Punisher, see “Punisher Cast”).  The first season of the Netflix Daredevil, which debuted this spring was a huge hit that sold plenty of Man Without Fear graphic novels in comic shops and racked up an amazing 98% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with 40 out of 41 critics giving the series thumbs up.

The character of Elektra, a martial arts-trained assassin, was created by Frank Miller.  She first appeared in Daredevil #168 in 1981, and quickly became a major fixture in the Marvel Universe thanks to high profile projects like the Elektra Assassin miniseries.  Yung played a similarly martial arts-savvy character (Jinx) in G.I. Joe Retaliation, and Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb told Marvel.com “we found in Elodie the perfect actress to embody both Elektra’s impressive and deadly physicality, as well as her psychological complexity.”