Isabela Merced Biography
Isabela Merced is an American actress who has starred in films like 100 Things to Do Before High School, Transformers: The Last Knight, Instant Family, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado. She played main roles in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, Turtles All the Way Down, and Alien: Romulus. Before 2019, she was credited as Isabela Yolanda Moner.
Isabela Merced Age
Merced was born Isabela Yolanda Moner on July 10, 2001, in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. She is 23 years old as of 2024. Merced celebrates her birthday on July 10th.
Isabela Merced Height
Merced stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 1 inch.
Isabela Merced Family
Merced was born to Katherine and Patrick Moner in Cleveland, Ohio. Her mother was born in Lima, Peru while her father was born in Louisiana. She has two brothers, an older brother named Jared and a younger brother Gyovanni. Katherine had an ongoing battle with breast cancer for an undisclosed time. In 2020, she became cancer-free.
Isabela Merced Relationship
Merced is very private about her personal life therefore it is not known if she is in any relationship. She has polycystic ovary syndrome(PCOS) and has openly talked about her struggles with anxiety, commenting that she attended therapy.
Isabela Merced Net Worth
Merced has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million-$5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as an actress.
Isabela Merced Dora and the Lost City of Gold
Merced starred as Dora Márquez, daughter of jungle explorers Cole and Elena, in Dora and the Lost City of Gold in 2019. She lives with her cousin, Diego, while her parents search for the Incan city of gold, Parapata. While at school, she and her friends are kidnapped by mercenaries so that she can take them to Parapata. Merced’s performance in the film won her the 2020 Imagen Best Actress – Feature Film Award.
Isabela Merced Madame Web
Merced starred as Anya Corazon in Madame Web in 2024. Anya is an intelligent girl living alone after her father was deported. Ezekiel Sims hunts her for being one of the three future Spider-Women responsible for his death.
Isabela Merced Alien: Romulus
Merced starred as Kay Harrison in Alien: Romulus in 2024. Kay is Tyler’s pregnant sister who ingests the Z-01 serum to help her heal rapidly. The serum increases her fetus’s development, leading to the birth of a human-xenomorph hybrid known as “The Offspring.”
Isabela Merced Hawkgirl
Merced will star as Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl in Superman in 2025. She joined the cast of DC’s Superman as Hawkgirl in July 2023. Hawkgirl is a superhero with wings and several melee weapons. Merced didn’t inform the Superman filmmakers about her role in Madame Web in case they didn’t want her to play both.
Isabela Merced Ethnicity
Merced is Peruvian on her mother’s side. She said that she first spoke Spanish before she began talking in English in grade school which she struggled with. Further, she commented that she feels more Peruvian than American.
Isabela Merced Name Change
On October 14, 2019, Merced announced that she was changing her name stage name to Isabela Merced in memory of her late grandmother whom she never met via her Instagram account. Further, she elaborated that she was changing her stage name, not her birth name.
Isabela Merced Career
Merced joined college when she was 15 years old. She started acting after a fire ruined her family’s Cleveland home. As she was a Judy Garland fan, her parents tried to distract her from the loss by making her audition at the local production of The Wizard of Oz.
Merced gained the role of Munchkin and enrolled in the Fairmount Performing Arts Conservatory led by Fred Sternfeld, a Broadway producer. Fred tried persuading her mother to take her to New York for auditions. Despite being reluctant at first, the family relocated to New York City for a month so that she could pursue a Broadway career.
Merced said that watching movies featuring Shirley Temple and Judy Garland inspired her desire to be an actress when she was young. She gained her first gig, a Claritin commercial, on what was supposed to be her last day in New York City during the summer she spent auditioning there. At 10 years old, She debuted on Broadway in a production of Evita where she sang in Spanish with Ricky Martin.
2014 to present;
Merced gained the lead role of CJ Martin in Nickelodeon’s 100 Things to Do Before High School from 2014 to 2016. That same year, she began voicing Kate in Dora and Friends: Into the City! from 2014 to 2017. In 2015, she starred as Lara Collins in Nickelodeon’s Splitting Adam. She also joined the cast of Legends of the Hidden Temple as Sadie.
Merced’s debut album produced by Broadway Records, Stopping Time, was released on September 18, 2015. In May of the following year, she joined the cast of Transformers: The Last Knight. She did a voice-over for Heather in The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature.
In 2018, Merced portrayed the daughter of a drug cartel head in Sicario: Day of the Soldado, winning her positive acclaim from critics. That same year, she played the role of an adopted daughter in Instant Family opposite Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne. Further, she wrote and sang I’ll Stay in the film.
Merced starred as Dora in Dora and the Lost City of Gold in 2019. She also joined the cast of Let It Snow. That same year, she appeared in Netflix’s Sweet Girl opposite Jason Momoa. She released her first single, Papi, on October 25, 2019, and released its music video on November 6, 2019. Her debut EP, The Better Half of Me, was released on May 22, 2020, through Republic Records. The EP hit as one of Billboard’s top 15 new Peruvian artists to listen to in July 2020.
In 2024, Merced appeared in Turtles All the Way Down and Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus. In January of the same year, she joined the cast of The Last Of Us SN 2 as Dina. She joined the cast of DC’s Superman as Hawkgirl in July 2023.
Isabela Merced Movies and TV Shows
Merced has starred in several movies and TV shows during her career such as
- The House That Jack Built
- Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
- The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
- Spirit Untamed
- Father of the Bride
- Rosaline
- Migration
- Maya and the Three
Isabela Merced Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and often posts on her Instagram and Facebook. She has over 3.5M followers on Instagram and over 670K on Facebook.