Kate Bishop (1872)

Katherine Elizabeth Bishop is a character portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Bishop is depicted as a champion archer who grew up idolizing Avenger Clint Barton after he inadvertently saved her life during the Battle of New York.

Years later, she meets him and partners with him to uncover a criminal conspiracy and becomes his protégé. Bishop helps Barton confront those trying to take him down, such as the Tracksuit Mafia's boss, Maya Lopez, and the assassin Yelena Belova. Bishop discovers that her mother was secretly conspiring with Wilson Fisk. She is later recruited by Kamala Khan, who asked her to join her team of young superheroes.

Steinfeld first appeared as the character in the Disney+ miniseries Hawkeye (2021). She reprised the role for a cameo appearance in the film The Marvels (2023). She also voiced alternate versions of the character in the third season of the animated television series What If...? (2024) as well as Marvel Zombies (2025). Steinfeld's portrayal has been well received by fans and critics. Clara Stack plays a young version of the character in Hawkeye.

Kate Bishop was created by Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung for Young Avengers #1 (April 2005), and becomes a founding member of the titular team using Clint Barton's arrows as a weapon. Because Barton had sacrificed himself in Avengers #502, Captain America gifted her the Hawkeye mantle. Prior to this, as a teenager, she was assaulted in Central Park which led her to take up intense combat training and self-defense to heal from the trauma she felt afterwards. In later appearances after Barton's revival, she developed a mentor-mentee relationship with him and was a main eponymous character in Matt Fraction and David Aja's series Hawkeye (2012), the "All-New Hawkeye" series by Jeff Lemire and Ramon Perez (2015), a solo 16-issue Hawkeye series written by Kelly Thompson from 2016 to 2018 and an upcoming 2021 five-part miniseries by Marieke Nijkamp and Enid Balám.