Robert Redford played the character Alexander Pierce in Avengers: Endgame. Alexander Pierce is the former Secretary of S.H.I.E.L.D. and a secret Hydra operative. Redford first portrayed this role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and reprised it briefly in Avengers: Endgame during a time-travel scene. Pierce is shown as a high-ranking government official involved with Hydra's infiltration of S.H.I.E.L.D. and has a humorous exchange with Tony Stark over the Tesseract in Endgame.