Isabela Merced Biography
Isabela Merced is an American Actress and Singer best known for Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Instant Family (2018), Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), and Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019). She rose to fame after starring in the Sweet Girl (2021).
Isabela Merced Career
After her family’s home in Cleveland was destroyed by fire, Merced started to do acting. Merced loved Judy Garland, so her parents asked her if she would like to try out for a local performance of The Wizard of Oz to take her mind off of the death. After agreeing, she was cast as a Munchkin. A neighborhood theater director told her family that they should move to New York City to help her get a job on Broadway, and they did.
When Merced was very young, she watched movies with Shirley Temple and Judy Garland and knew she wanted to be an actor. She started performing in community theater when she was six years old. Merced’s first show on Broadway was Evita when she was ten years old. She sang in Spanish with Ricky Martin. In September 2015, Broadway Records put out an album by her called Stopping Time.
Merced’s first lead part was as CJ Martin on the Nickelodeon show 100 Things to Do Before High School, which ran from 2014 to 2016. That same year, she started doing the voice of Kate, one of the main characters in Dora and Friends: Into the City!, a show based on Dora the Explorer. She did this part from 2014 to 2017.
As Lori Collins in the 2015 Nickelodeon Original Movie Splitting Adam, she played a major role. In 2016, she was cast as Sadie in the 2016 Nickelodeon Original Movie Legends of the Hidden Temple. The movie Transformers: The Last Knight came out in June 2017 and Merced was cast in it in May 2016. She played the role of Heather in The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, an animated movie that came out in theaters on August 11, 2017.
Critics loved Merced’s “major” part as the daughter of the head of a drug cartel in Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018). The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane stated “Moner is terrific, and her character’s fortunes can be read in her eyes—blazing to begin with, as she scraps with another girl in a schoolyard, but dark and blank by the end, their youthful fire doused by the violence that she has seen.”
She wrote and sang the song “I’ll Stay” for the comedy film Instant Family, which came out the same year, in which she played the adopted daughter of Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne. Moreover, the 2019 movie Dora and the Lost City of Gold was based on an animated series, and Merced played the main character. She was also cast in the Christmas romantic comedy Let It Snow. That same year, she was cast with Jason Momoa in the Netflix movie Sweet Girl.
In an Instagram post on October 14, 2019, Merced told her fans that she was changing her stage name to Isabela Merced in honor of her late grandma, whom she had never met. However, after the fact, Merced said that she hadn’t officially changed her name and that it was “just a stage name with a deeper meaning.” The first music video for her song “Papi” came out on November 6, 2019, after the single came out on October 25, 2019. Moreover, the Better Half of Me, Merced’s first EP, came out on May 22, 2020. In July 2020, Billboard named her one of the top 15 new Peruvian acts to listen to.
The news came out in March 2022 that Merced would be in Turtles Down, a movie based on John Green’s 2017 book of the same name. Filming began in April 2022. However, they started working on Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus in March 2023. Marvel Cinematic Universe (DCU) movie Superman: Legacy (2025) cast Merced as Hawkgirl in July 2023. When season 2 of The Last of Us started in January 2024, Merced was cast as Dina.
Isabela Merced Salary
Merced earns an annual salary of about $ 500,000 – $1 Million.
Isabela Merced Net Worth
Merced has an estimated net worth of about $5 Million – $10 Million which she has earned throughout her career as an actress and singer.
Isabela Merced Age
Merced was born on July 10, 2001, in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. She is 26 years old as of 2023 and she celebrates her birthday on the 10th of July every year.
Isabela Merced Height and Weight
Merced stands at a height of 5 feet 1 inch tall (1.54m) and weighs 47 kgs (103 lbs).
Isabela Merced Family
Merced was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States to Patrick Moner (father), who was born in Louisiana, and has Polish and Slovak ancestry, and Katherine Moner (mother), a Peruvian from Lima. Additionally, she was raised alongside her two siblings; an older brother named Jared Moner and a younger brother named Giovanni Moner.
Isabela Merced Husband | Boyfriend
Merced is currently single but has had some past relationships. She dated Jace Norman in 2016 and later Patrick Joyner.
Isabela Merced Migration
Merced has voiced Kim in the animated adventure comedy film. Kim is a duck whose family is heading to Jamaica. In a forest in New England, Mack Mallard constantly tells his kids Dax and Gwen not to go outside, which makes his wife Pam very unhappy.
One day, the Mallards meet a group of ducks that are moving south to Jamaica. The family finds this interesting, but Mack is not. However, Pam tells Mack to look around and see what’s going on around him. Mack talks to his old Uncle Dan that night. Uncle Dan also doesn’t want to leave the pond. But Uncle Dan makes Mack change his mind, and he decides to let his family move. At Gwen’s request, Uncle Dan goes with them, but they go north instead of south.
Isabela Merced Madame Web
Merced will play the role of Anya Corazón / Araña in the upcoming American superhero film. Corazon was a young girl from Brooklyn who was Puerto Rican and Mexican. She wasn’t bitten by a spider; instead, she got her powers from being trapped between the Spider Society and the Sisterhood of the Wasp. This is not the same as the Spider-Verse society. Arana seriously hurt herself while trying to protect a guy, and he gave her some of his power, making her a Hunter for the Spider Society.
She changed her name to Araña, which was her mother’s maiden name, and began fighting crime. She had skills like Spider-Man and could make a blue exoskeleton. Arana made a difference in the Marvel Universe as this character, but she lost her powers over time. She still fought crime, though.
Isabela Merced Turtles All the Way Down
Merced will play the role of Aza Holmes in the American romantic drama film. When a 16-year-old girl with obsessive–compulsive disorder gets in touch with her old friend, she faces the idea that she might be able to find love and happiness even though she has a mental illness.
Isabela Merced The Last of Us
Merced will play the role of Dina in the American post-apocalyptic drama television series season 2. In addition, the character Dina is called “a free-wheeling spirit”. Their love for Ellie will be tested by how harsh the world they live in is.
Isabela Merced Movies and TV Shows
- The Last of Us
- Maya and the Three
- The Amazing Race Canada
- Legends of the Hidden Temple
- Splitting Adam
- Migration
- Rosaline
- Father of the Bride
- Sweet Girl
- Spirit Untamed
- Let It Snow
Isabela Merced Social Media Platforms
Merced is very active on her Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook page and she has 146.3k followers on Twitter, 3.7M followers on Instagram, and 690k followers on Facebook.