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Isabela Merced will play Dina in HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2

Another important character joins the cast

Marco Wutz

Isabela Merced will play Dina in HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2
Isabela Merced will play Dina in HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2 /

HBO’s The Last of Us Season 2 has found its Dina: Isabela Merced has been cast in what’s going to be an important role, Warner Bros. confirmed.

Though she’s not playable outside of the No Return mode, Dina is a crucial character in Ellie’s story in The Last of Us Part 2, which makes her one of the most important new faces for the upcoming season of the drama show. Her role’s official description calls her “a free-wheeling spirit whose devotion to Ellie will be tested by the brutality of the world they inhabit.”

A photo showing Isabela Merced.
Isabela Merced will be Dina in HBO's The Last of Us Season 2 / Johnny Carrano

“Dina is warm, brilliant, wild, funny, moral, dangerous and instantly lovable. You can search forever for an actor who effortlessly embodies all of those things, or you can find Isabela Merced right away. We couldn’t be prouder to have her join our family,” said the show’s co-creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann.

Merced made her name as a young actress in the Nickelodeon show 100 Things to Do Before High School before landing roles in large films like Transformers: The Last Knight and Sicario: Day of the Soldado. She played the titular character in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, which is the last role she’s been credited for under her birth name of Isabela Moner, and was one of the two main characters in Sweet Girl alongside Jason Momoa.

Yesterday, HBO announced that Young Mazino would play Jesse in The Last of Us Season 2, which itself followed the reveal that Kaitlyn Dever had been cast as Abby.

There are currently also rumors around a The Last of Us spin-off series being in development. Supposedly, this would dive into the backstory of Bill and Frank, a pair of doomed lovers who appeared in one of the most beloved episodes of the first season of the show.

The Last of Us Part 2 split into multiple seasons

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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