Who Is Doctor Strange Actress Zara Phythian?

Zara Phynthian is a martial arts champion and teacher and Doctor Strange actor who is accused of numerous sex offences with a 13-year-old.

Zara Phythian has been accused of sex offences alongside her husband Victor Marke, which include having sex with a 13-year-old girl after grooming her.

The couple is accused of 14 joint charges of sexual activity with the child (who is now a woman) between the ages of 13 to 15.

Jurors at Nottingham Crown Court played a police interview where the woman described details of the alleged sexual offences between 2005 and 2008 when the girl was aged 13 to 15.

The couple – who were not married at the time – were both martial arts instructors in Nottinghamshire and the woman told police she had looked up to Ms Phythian because of her success in her field.

The victim also alleges that Mr Marke threatened to smash her kneecaps if she ever told anyone.

Ms Phythian would have been 20 or 21 years old when the alleged abuse started, and Mr Marke would have been 42 or 43.

Mr Marke has s also accused of four additional charges of indecently assaulting a child, which is in relation to another woman who complained to the police.

Mr Marke, 59, and Ms Phythian, 36, deny all of the offences.

Zara Phythian played the character Brunette Zealot in Marvel’s Doctor Strange. The sorcerer was a former member of the Masters of the Mystic Arts who joined the Zealots in hopes of defeating the Ancient One and bringing forth an inter-dimensional entity called Dormammu to earth.