Pepper Potts is a Marvel Comics character. She's Tony Stark's assistant and later girlfriend. She was created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Larry Lieber and appears in the "Iron Man" comics as the deuteragonist. She's also an important character of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She's played by Gwyneth Paltrow in the movies "Iron Man", "Iron Man 2", "The Avengers", "Iron Man 3", "", "" and "" and she will reprise her role in the upcoming Disney+ series Iron Heart.