HBO's The Last Of Us - 5 PERFECT Actors For Joel & Ellie

10. Eliza Scanlen

You may recognize Eliza Scanlen from her recent role in the Academy Award-winning Greta Gerwig film, Little Women, in which she played one of the four March sisters. Scanlen also starred in HBO thriller miniseries, Sharp Objects, where she starred alongside Amy Adams.

That's right -- Scanlen is an HBO alum, so she may have an edge is nabbing the role.

What's more, she's got the dramatic chops necessary to carry the role with relative ease. In Little Women, she imbued Beth March with a sense of real emotional depth, masking a tortured soul -- facing an insurmountable situation -- with a veneer of strength and grace.

Like every actress on this list, she's a tad bit older than Ellie. Scanlen is currently 21, which SEEMS like it would be a problem, given that Ellie is supposed to be 14 during the events of the first game.

However, when you take into account that Tom Holland was 21 when he was cast as the 15-year-old Peter Parker (which he pulled off effectively), suddenly it doesn't seem so bad.