Isabela Merced

Isabela Yolanda Moner, now officially known as Isabela Merced, is an American actress, voice actress, singer, songwriter, dancer, and ukulele player. She has appeared in *Transformers: The Last Knight* (2017), *Sicario: Day of the Soldado* (2018), *Instant Family* (2018), and the title role in *Dora and the Lost City of Gold* (2019). Merced also starred in the Nickelodeon television series *100 Things to Do Before High School*. She made her Broadway debut at age 10 in a production of *Evita*, and her film debut was in *The House That Jack Built* (2013). Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she is the daughter of Katherine, a Peruvian from Lima, and Patrick Moner, who was born in Louisiana and has Polish and Slovak ancestry. Merced is the middle child of her family, with an older brother named Jared and a younger brother named Gyovanni.