Clark Gregg

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Summary

Clark Gregg is an actor, director, and screenwriter best known as Phil Coulson in Marvel films and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.; he also wrote and directed Choke and Trust Me. His directing work often mixes dark comedy with stories about damaged people seeking connection. Gregg has publicly welcomed greater diversity in superhero storytelling and spoken about the importance of girls and Asian American viewers seeing heroes who look like them, noting that he had enjoyed such representation as a white boy. No public partisan campaigning or activist affiliations focused on race, LGBTQ issues, or DEI are on record.