HBO series The Last of Us was curated from the 2013 video game created by Naughty Dog and has 2 prominent cast members with a host of guest casts. The cast of the series comprises seasoned actors who were also part of the voicing of the video game and new actors.
The Last of Us cast members include Pedro Pascal who played the role of Joel, the protagonist. He is also 1 of the 2 main characters of the series. There is also Bella Ramsey who was cast as the second protagonist and main cast, 14-year-old Ellie.
Other casts include Gabriel Luna as Tommy Miller, Jeffery Pierce as Perry, Philip A. Kovats as Male Clicker, Anna Torv who played the role of Theresa ‘Tess’ Servopoulos, and Merle Dandridge as Marlene.
The series plot centers on the rescue of a 14-year-old girl after the destruction of modern civilization. It further takes viewers through a journey around the US in a bid to escape looming harm.
Meet the Main Cast of the HBO TV Series The Last of Us
Pedro Pascal as Joel Miller
- Date of Birth: April 2, 1975
- Age: 49 years old
- Place of Birth: Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile.
- Years Active: 1996 – present
He played the protagonist role in all 10 episodes of the 2023-released HBO TV Series, The Last of Us. He was assigned the task of taking charge of Ellie, the 14-year-old girl who is portrayed to be humanity’s last hope of survival after modern civilization had been destroyed.
Pedro has played notable roles in other series such as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones (2011) and Javier Pena in Narcos (2015).
Bella Ramsey as Ellie
- Date of Birth: September 30, 2003
- Age: 21 years old
- Place of Birth: Nottinghamshire, England, UK.
- Years Active: 2011 – present
Unarguably the center of the plot of the series, Ellie whose real name is Bella Ramsey, is the second protagonist of the series. She is the one whose life needed to be preserved as she was to be the hope of modern civilization.
She began acting in HBO’s other hit series Game of Thrones and soon became a fan favorite. She has also been part of the cast of the most recent adaptation of the movie The Worst Witch where she played the role of Mildred Hubble. Bella won a BAFTA Award for Young Performer in 2019 for her interpretation of her role.
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Gabriel Luna as Tommy Miller
- Date of Birth: December 5, 1982
- Age: 41 years old
- Place of Birth: Austin, Texas, USA.
- Years Active: 2005 -present
Gabriel played Tommy, the younger brother of Joel who was also a former soldier. His character in this series was also an idealist who hoped for a better world.
Luna is an actor and producer and is known for movies such as Terminator: Dark Fate (2019), Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (2013), and 2011’s Bernie.
Jeremy Pierce as Perry
- Date of Birth: December 13, 1971
- Age: 52 years old
- Place of Birth: Denver, Colorado
- Years Active: 1997 – present
Jeremy is an actor, voice actor, director, and producer who began to act at the age of 25. As a member of The Last of Us TV Series, he played the role of a rebel in the quarantine zone. He is an original character in the show.
Philip A. Kovats as Male Clicker
Philip was part of 4 episodes in the TV series and he had the role of the male clicker. He has movie credits that date back to the late 1990s but is mostly known for being part of the cast of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in 2009 and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (2016) as the audio director.
He has 2 BAFTA Awards nominations and over other nominations of which he won a few.
Anna Torv as Theresa ‘Tess’ Servopoulos
- Date of Birth: June 7, 1979
- Age: 45 years old
- Place of Birth: Melbourne, Australia
- Years Active: 2001 – present
In this series, Anna played the role of Tess who was a hardened survivor and Joel’s partner. Her relationship with the protagonist of this series was kept on a low in the series as well as in the video game.
Throughout her over 2 decades of acting, she has been nominated for several awards and won some such as Best Actress in a Drama ‘Fringe’ in 2011.
Merle Dandridge as Marlene
- Date of Birth: May 31, 1975
- Age: 49 years old
- Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
- Years Active: 2002 – present
As Marlene, Merle headed the Fireflies in this 2023-released series. She and her team were a resistance movement that tried to get independence from military rule. She was said to be the only character that resembled the video game character and was also part of the cast of the video game.
Kevin Sateri as Infected Man in Cellar
- Date of Birth: May 29, 1974
- Age: 50 years old
- Place of Birth: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Years Active: 1993 – present
Kelvin is an actor and crew member with additional credit for being part of 2007’s Code Name: The Cleaner. He played the role of an infected man in the cellar and appeared in 2 episodes of The Last of Us Series.
Most of his movies and series credits have been as a dancer and some were uncredited.
Lamar Johnson as Henry
- Date of Birth: July 18, 1994
- Age: 30 years old
- Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
- Years Active: 2003
Lamar Johnson is an actor and director whose credits include The Hate U Give (2018) and Your Honor (2020). In this series, he played the character ‘Henry’ who was hiding from a revolutionary movement with his brother. He appeared in 2 episodes of the series.
Keivonn Woodard as Sam
- Date of Birth: 2013
- Age: 11 years old
- Place of Birth: Los Angeles, United States of America
Playing the role of Sam is Keivonn who was cast in 2 episodes. He played a deaf artistic child who lived in fear of violent revolutionaries in Kansas. He was the brother to Henry played by Lamar Johnson.
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Here are the Additional Cast and Roles they Played
- Marlee Grace Becker – Infected girl
- Nico Parker – Sarah Miller
- John Hannah – Neuman
- Nick Offerman – Bill
- Christine Hakim – Ratna Pertiwi
- Murray Bartlett – Frank
- Yaya A.W. Unru – Gen. Agus Hidayat
- Josh Brener – Murray
- Sharon Crandall – Lab Worker
- Christopher Heyerdahl – Schoenhesis
- Philip Prajoux – Infected kissing man
- Marcus Aurelio – Infected at Fence
- Brad Leland – Adler
- Olivier Ross-Parent – Museum Clicker
- Rumbie Muzofa – Mother
- Samuel Hoeksema – Museum Clicker
- Marcia Bennett – Adler
- Brendan Fletcher – Robert
- Jerry Wasserman – Abe
- Wendy Gorling – Nana
- Jessica Belbin – Lauterstein
- Haysam Kadri – Nasir
- Sarah Himadeh – Tahira
- Caitlin Howden – Denise
- Riley Davis – Young Firefly Soldier
- Max Montesi – Lee
- Natasha Mumba – Kim Tembo
- Gina Louise Phillips – Medic
- Taylor St. Pierre – Buzzcut
- Ryan D. Clark – Soldier
- Khadijah Roberts-Abdullah – Kind FEDRA Soldier
- Logan Pierce – The Boy
- Corina Akeson – Scoot-Faced Woman
- Jason Burkart – FEDRA Foreman
- Andrea Greening – FEDRA Officer
- Arran Henn – Newscaster
- Ashley Johnson – Anna Williams
- Melanie Lynskey – Kathleen
- Storm Reid – Riley Abel
- Graham Greene – Marlon
- Rutina Wesley – Maria Miller
- Scott Shepherd – David
- Sonia Maria Chirila – Hannah
- Nelson Leis – Josiah
- Autumn T. Dang – Teacher
- Ari Rombough – Joyce
- Elaine Miles – Florence
- Pardeep Singh Sooch – Firefly Soldier #1
- Connor Stanhope – Infected Man Stage 5
- Ana Rice – Nurse #2
- Craig Haas – Informer
- Janet Orpen – Infected person (uncredited)
- Autumn Thom – Infected #6 (uncredited)
- James Hibbard – Principal (uncredited)
- Adrian Hein – Diner Chase Infected (uncredited)
- Bud Klasky – Man Being Eaten (uncredited)
- Alan Chamout – Man in Line (uncredited)
- Jeff Hanni – Rebel Soldier (uncredited)