Guest stars include Nico Parker as Joel's daughter Sarah, Merle Dandridge as resistance leader Marlene, Anna Torv as Joel's partner Tess, Gabriel Luna as Joel's brother Tommy, Lamar Johnson and Keivonn Montreal Woodard as brothers Henry and Sam, and Melanie Lynskey and Jeffrey Pierce as resistance leader Kathleen and her second-in-command Perry. The series follows Joel ( Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting the immune teenager Ellie ( Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States. Based on the 2013 video game developed by Naughty Dog, the series is set twenty years into a pandemic caused by a mass fungal infection, which causes its hosts to transform into zombie-like creatures and collapses society. The Last of Us is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO.
