---
name: "Isabela Merced"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/isabela-merced"
fi1m_id: "isabela-merced"
imdb_id: "nm5097044"
tmdb_id: 1428070
wikidata_id: "Q20830731"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "10 July 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 60
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 6
updated: "2026-10-05T14:14:26.802068+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Isabela Merced

## Identity

Isabela Merced

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/isabela-merced
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** isabela-merced
- **IMDb ID:** nm5097044
- **TMDB ID:** 1428070
- **Wikidata ID:** Q20830731
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabela_Merced, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20830731, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5097044/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1428070

Actor. Born 10 July 2001 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 10 July 2001, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- **Active:** 2017–present
- **Also known as:** Isabela Yolanda Moner, Isabela Moner, Isabela Yolanda Moner Pizzaro
- **Frequently works with:** [Lorenzo di Bonaventura](https://film.one/person/lorenzo-di-bonaventura.md), [Mark Wahlberg](https://film.one/person/mark-wahlberg.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 60, as actor, over 6 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 51 (2), 2020s 65 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 60 to 61 across 6 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 6 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 3, Science Fiction 3, Adventure 2, Drama 2, Comedy 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,797m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabela_Merced, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20830731, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5097044/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1428070

## Coming up

- *Man of Tomorrow* (2027-07-07), as Hawkgirl

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Last of Us*](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md) (85), [*Superman*](https://film.one/film/superman.md) (66)
- **Disney+:** [*Alien: Romulus*](https://film.one/film/alien-romulus.md) (70), [*Madame Web*](https://film.one/film/madame-web.md) (38)
- **Apple TV:** [*Instant Family*](https://film.one/film/instant-family.md) (68), [*Transformers: The Last Knight*](https://film.one/film/transformers-the-last-knight.md) (34)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Isabela Merced

> Isabela Merced lets anger drain from her face until there is little left to read. We rate that restraint, but films such as *Superman* give her too little to do.

In *Superman* (2025), Isabela Merced’s Hawkgirl has wings and little else to establish who she is. We found that frustrating: she is present among the heroes, yet the film scarcely gives us a person to care about. The film keeps adding characters and crises, and Merced is one of the performers left with too little to do. We would rather see her given time to make an impression.

Her early work in youth television included *100 Things to Do Before High School* (2014–2016), but *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018) gave her a more revealing dramatic part. Opposite Benicio del Toro, her Isabel Reyes moves from anger to blankness without making the change look like an acting exercise. The face becomes harder to read, which makes us want to watch it more closely. A lead in *Dora and the Lost City of Gold* (2019) followed; by *Turtles All the Way Down* (2024), she was taking on lead drama. Those parts make the narrowness of her franchise assignments harder to excuse.

*Alien: Romulus* (2024) repeats the problem in a better film. Fede Álvarez makes the horror frightening, but Kay belongs to a supporting crew whose members are each allotted one trait and one job. Andy gets the development, expressed through changes in his shoulders and diction; Merced is left with much less to work on. We recommend it to horror enthusiasts, with a warning about the borrowed ideas, but would not start here for a proper look at what she can do.

Her arrival as Dina in the second series of *The Last of Us* in 2025 brings action, humour and vulnerability together in one part. That is a more encouraging assignment, though our enthusiasm for the programme’s first series is not a judgement on her performance in the second. We would like to see more parts that let her be funny as well as frightened, and stay with her long enough for both to matter. For evidence of her dramatic restraint, go back to *Sicario: Day of the Soldado*.

## Biography

Isabela Merced is an American actress and singer. Born Isabela Yolanda Moner on 10 July 2001 in Cleveland, Ohio, she began acting in community theatre as a child and made her Broadway debut at age ten in a production of *Evita*.

She rose to prominence with the lead role of CJ Martin in the Nickelodeon series *100 Things to Do Before High School* (2014–2016) and voiced Kate in *Dora and Friends: Into the City!* (2014–2017). Film roles include Izabella in *Transformers: The Last Knight* (2017), Lizzy in *Instant Family* (2018), Isabel Reyes in *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018) and the title character in *Dora and the Lost City of Gold* (2019). In 2019 she adopted the professional name Isabela Merced.

Later credits include Rachel Cooper in *Sweet Girl* (2021), Anya Corazón in *Madame Web* (2024), Kay in *Alien: Romulus* (2024), Dina in *The Last of Us* (2023) and Hawkgirl in *Superman* (2025) and *Peacemaker* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, dc.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (6)

- *Superman* (2025), Fi1m 66, as Hawkgirl — [page](https://film.one/film/superman.md)
- *Alien: Romulus* (2024), Fi1m 70, as Kay — [page](https://film.one/film/alien-romulus.md)
- *Madame Web* (2024), Fi1m 38, as Anya Corazón — [page](https://film.one/film/madame-web.md)
- *The Last of Us* (2023), Fi1m 85, as Dina — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *Instant Family* (2018), Fi1m 68, as Elizabeth “Lizzy” Viara — [page](https://film.one/film/instant-family.md)
- *Transformers: The Last Knight* (2017), Fi1m 34, as Izabella — [page](https://film.one/film/transformers-the-last-knight.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Man of Tomorrow* (2027), as Hawkgirl
- *Superman* (2025), as Hawkgirl — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/superman.md)
- *Alien: Romulus* (2024), as Kay — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/alien-romulus.md)
- *Turtles All the Way Down* (2024), as Aza Holmes
- *Madame Web* (2024), as Anya Corazón — Fi1m 38, [page](https://film.one/film/madame-web.md)
- *Rock, Paper, Scissors* (2024), series, as The Susan (voice)
- *Migration* (2023), as Kim (voice)
- *The Last of Us* (2023), series, as Dina — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *Rosaline* (2022), as Juliet
- *Father of the Bride* (2022), as Cora Herrera
- *Spirit & Friends* (2022), series, as Lucky (voice)
- *Peacemaker* (2022), series, as Hawkgirl
- *Maya and the Three* (2021), series, as Widow Queen (voice)
- *Sweet Girl* (2021), as Rachel Cooper
- *Spirit Untamed* (2021), as Lucky Prescott (voice)
- *Let It Snow* (2019), as Julie
- *Dora and the Lost City of Gold* (2019), as Dora
- *Instant Family* (2018), as Elizabeth “Lizzy” Viara — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/instant-family.md)
- *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018), as Isabel Reyes
- *The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature* (2017), as Heather (voice)
- *Transformers: The Last Knight* (2017), as Izabella — Fi1m 34, [page](https://film.one/film/transformers-the-last-knight.md)
- *Legends of the Hidden Temple* (2016), as Sadie
- *Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life* (2016), as Jeanne Galletta
- *The House That Jack Built* (2015), as Young Nadia
- *Nickelodeon's Ho Ho Holiday Special* (2015), as Isabela Moner
- *Splitting Adam* (2015), as Lori
- *100 Things to Do Before High School* (2014), series, as CJ Martin
- *100 Things to Do Before High School* (2014), as CJ Martin
- *Dora and Friends: Into the City!* (2014), series, as Kate (voice)
- *Growing Up Fisher* (2014), series, as Jenny
- *The House of the Dead*, as Executive Producer
- *Psyche*, as Camila · Executive Producer
- *Dutch & Razzlekhan*, as Carla Vargas
- *Ibelin*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Isabela Merced as Anya Corazón in Madame Web (2024)](https://film.one/media/title/30/still-c55d689405e8.jpg) Isabela Merced as Anya Corazón in *Madame Web* (2024) — Image via TMDB
- ![Isabela Merced](https://film.one/media/person/655/gallery-39c27618a157.jpg) Isabela Merced — Bea Phi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Isabela_Merced%2C_actor%2C_at_SXSW_2025_03_%28further_cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Isabela Moner screenshot from interview. Isabela Moner on Filming the Action in 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado'](https://film.one/media/person/655/gallery-4b82d83e705a.jpg) Isabela Moner screenshot from interview. Isabela Moner on Filming the Action in 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' — ColliderVideo. Uploader blurred copyrighted movie logo and cropped., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Isabela-Moner_interview2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Isabela Moner screenshot from interview. Isabela Moner on Filming the Action in 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado'.](https://film.one/media/person/655/gallery-9fc5ba0efd0d.jpg) Isabela Moner screenshot from interview. Isabela Moner on Filming the Action in 'Sicario: Day of the Soldado'. — ColliderVideo. Uploader removed logo bottom right, blur of copyrighted movie logo, cropped., CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Isabela-Moner_interview.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Isabela Merced, actor, at the 2025 South by Southwest festival.](https://film.one/media/person/655/gallery-08ad85dadeee.jpg) Isabela Merced, actor, at the 2025 South by Southwest festival. — Bea Phi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Isabela_Merced%2C_actor%2C_at_SXSW_2025_02_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Isabela Merced](https://film.one/media/person/655/gallery-436a17512ce8.jpg) Isabela Merced — Image via TMDB
- ![Isabela Merced, actor, at the 2025 South by Southwest festival.](https://film.one/media/person/655/gallery-fceaef180af4.jpg) Isabela Merced, actor, at the 2025 South by Southwest festival. — Bea Phi, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/Isabela_Merced%2C_actor%2C_at_SXSW_2025_01.jpg/1280px-Isabela_Merced%2C_actor%2C_at_SXSW_2025_01.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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