{"id":357609,"date":"2026-03-21T10:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357609\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:01:15","slug":"last-of-us-season-3-casts-michelle-mao-kyriana-kratter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/357609\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Last of Us&#8217; Season 3 Casts Michelle Mao, Kyriana Kratter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMichelle Mao and Kyriana Kratter have joined \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-last-of-us\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-last-of-us\" data-tag=\"the-last-of-us\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Last of Us<\/a>\u201d Season 3 at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>, Variety has confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMao will star as Yara will Kratter will play Lev.  Returning cast for the season includes Kaitlyn Dever, Bella Ramsey, Isabella Merced, Gabriel Luna, and Jeffrey Wright. In addition, Ariela Barer, Tati Gabrielle, and Spencer Lord have all been promoted to series regular status for the show\u2019s third season. Previously announced new cast members are Clea Duvall, Patrick Wilson, Jason Ritter, and Jorge Lendeborg Jr, with Lendeborg <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"1236651265\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"post\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/the-last-of-us-manny-jorge-lendeborg-jr-danny-ramirez-1236651265\/\">taking over the role of Manny<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMao can currently be seen in Season 4 of \u201cBridgerton\u201d in the role of Rosamund Li. She also starred in the feature \u201cZi,\u201d which premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Kratter recently starred in the Disney+ series \u201cStar Wars: Skeleton Crew\u201d and has also been seen in the Disney series \u201cBunk\u2019d.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tKratter is repped by Paradigm and Complete Management Group. Mao is repped by MGMT Entertainment, Allegory Creative Talent and Gang Tyre Ramer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Last of Us\u201d was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/the-last-of-us-renewed-season-3-1236363976\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/the-last-of-us-renewed-season-3-1236363976\/\">renewed for a third season<\/a> in 2025 ahead of the Season 2 premiere. Based on the hit video game franchise of the same name, the show takes place in a world decimated by a widespread fungal infection that has turned much of the population into zombie-esque creatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe series was co-created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, though it was previously revealed that <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/neil-druckmann-exits-the-last-of-us-season-3-hbo-1236446316\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/neil-druckmann-exits-the-last-of-us-season-3-hbo-1236446316\/\">Druckmann was exiting the show<\/a> ahead of Season 3. Mazin will also be the sole showrunner for Season 3 in addition to writing and executive producing. The series is a co-production between HBO and Sony Pictures Television and is executive produced by Carolyn Strauss, Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O\u2019Connor, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan, and Evan Wells. PlayStation Productions, Word Games, Mighty Mint, and Naughty Dog produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDeadline first reported the castings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michelle Mao and Kyriana Kratter have joined \u201cThe Last of Us\u201d Season 3 at HBO, Variety has confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,3284,61,60,36108,282],"class_list":["post-357609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-hbo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-last-of-us","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}