{"id":447403,"date":"2026-02-03T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447403\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:07:08","slug":"the-last-of-us-adds-clea-duvall-jorge-lendeborg-jr-takes-over-manny-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/447403\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Last Of Us&#8217; Adds Clea DuVall, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Takes Over Manny Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/clea-duvall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_clea-duvall\" data-tag=\"clea-duvall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clea DuVall<\/a> (Poker Face) and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jorge-lendeborg-jr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jorge-lendeborg-jr\" data-tag=\"jorge-lendeborg-jr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Lendeborg Jr.<\/a> (Spider-Man: No Way Home) have joined the cast of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/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> for its upcoming third season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDeadline can reveal exclusively that DuVall will play a seraphite in the adaptation of Naughty Dog\u2019s popular game. Lendeborg will portray Manny, replacing Danny Ramirez, who played the recurring role in Season 2 but <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/the-last-of-us-season-3-danny-ramirez-recast-1236658324\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">could not return<\/a> for scheduling reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRelated Stories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/the-last-of-us-kaitlyn-dever-teases-season-3-production-1236697163\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/kaitlyn-dever.jpg\" alt=\"The Last of Us\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/video-games-next-tv-film-hit-baldurs-gate-black-myth-1236661847\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/LOU_ep202_032024_LH_0065.jpg\" alt=\"The Last Of Us TV series\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCo-created by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/craig-mazin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_craig-mazin\" data-tag=\"craig-mazin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Mazin<\/a> and the game\u2019s Neil Druckmann, the post-apocalyptic The Last of Us was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/04\/the-last-of-us-renewed-season-3-hbo-1236364271\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1236364271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewed for a third season<\/a> before <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/2025-tv-premiere-dates-1235811038\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1235811038\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Season 2 debuted last April<\/a>. Mazin, who served as executive producer\/co-showrunner alongside Druckmann in Seasons 1 and 2, is the sole showrunner for Season 3 following Druckmann\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe story in Season 3, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/hbo-casey-bloys-the-pitt-heated-rivalry-euphoria-interview-1236700801\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shaping up to be the series\u2019 final chapter<\/a>, is poised to be told from Abby\u2019s (Kaytlin Dever) perspective. Dever stars opposite The Last of Us lead Bella Ramsey.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/danny-ramirez.jpg\" alt=\"Danny Ramirez in 'The Last of Us' Season 2\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"683\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDanny Ramirez in \u2018The Last of Us\u2019 Season 2<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMax<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Last of Us is a co-production with Sony Pictures Television. Executive producing alongside Mazin and Druckmann are Carolyn Strauss, Jacqueline Lesko, Cecil O\u2019Connor, Asad Qizilbash, Carter Swan and Evan Wells; with writer\/co-executive producer Halley Gross. PlayStation Productions, Word Games, Mighty Mint and Naughty Dog produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuVall is repped by UTA. Lendeborg is repped by Verve, Mosaic, and Hansen Jacobson Teller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clea DuVall (Poker Face) and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. (Spider-Man: No Way Home) have joined the cast of HBO\u2018s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[210214,210215,88,1035,210216,62565,9454],"class_list":{"0":"post-447403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-clea-duvall","9":"tag-craig-mazin","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-jorge-lendeborg-jr","13":"tag-kaitlyn-dever","14":"tag-the-last-of-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}