HBO's The Last Of Us - 5 PERFECT Actors For Joel & Ellie
6. Cailee Spaeny
Remember this name: Cailee Spaeny.
Here we have a young actress standing right at the edge of stardom, and she's looking for the perfect opportunity to make the jump.
She's had a steady rise over the last few years. She made her debut in 2018's Pacific Rim: Uprising, in which she had a starring role. While the film didn't get as much love as its predecessor, critics DID praise her performance across the board.
She also appeared as a young cultist in Bad Times at the El Royale, wherein she held her own against heavyweights such as Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, and Chris Hemsworth.
She later starred alongside Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, and Justin Theroux in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex, and then alongside Christian Bale, Amy Adams, and Sam Rockwell in Vice.
The four films mentioned above all came out in the same year, and what a year it was. She currently stars in FX's acclaimed sci-fi miniseries, Devs.
If her track record is anything to go by, the trajectory of her career will propel her to the stars. Perhaps The Last of Us will be a part of that journey.