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Isabela Merced Complete Biography

Isabela Merced

Isabela Merced Complete Biography

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Isabel Merced

Born on July 10, 2001, Isabel is an American actress and singer famous for her child and teen performances in the Nickelodeon television series, ‘100 Things to Do Before High School‘, Dora and Friends: Into the City!, and the Lost City of Gold. Nevertheless, she has also performed more adult roles in Transformers: The Last Knight as Izabella and Isabel in Sicario: Day of the Soldado.

Early Life

Merced was born and brought up in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the middle child of mother Katherine and father Patrick Moner. The mother comes from Peru and Dad from Louisiana.  The name of the older brother is Jared and a younger brother Giovanni.

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Isabel with her brothers and her mother.

Merced has declared that Spanish was her primary language, and she coped with English when she first began grade school, adding that she counts herself as more Peruvian than American. At age 15, she was admitted into college.

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Child Isabel
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Isabel as Dora
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Isabel with her mother Katherine Moner

Early Career

Merced has stated that she desired to be an actress from a very tender age, motivated by movies featuring Shirley Temple and Judy Garland and beginning in local town theatre at age 6. Merced made her Broadway première at the age of 10 in the creation of Evita, in which she sang in Spanish with Ricky Martin. In September 2015, She published an album produced by Broadway Records named Stopping Time.

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Ricky Martin and Isabel
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Merced in Eva

 

Professional career

After acting as a child actor in many Popular movies, In 2018, Merced had a significant role in Sicario: Day of the Soldado, performing as the daughter of a drug mafia head, and performed Lizzy, the adopted girl of the characters played by Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne, in the drama film Instant Family, for which she also penned and sang the song “I’ll Stay”.

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Merced in Sicario: Day of the Soldado

In 2019, Merced performed as the central role in Dora and the Lost City of Gold, a live-action film adoption of the animated series, and was called in the Christmas comedy ensemble film ‘Let It Snow’. The same year, she was cast with Jason Momoa in the forthcoming film Sweet Girl for Netflix.

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Isabel in Let it Snow

On October 14, 2019, Merced declared to her fans via a post on her Instagram story that she had resolved to change her stage title to Isabela Merced, in remembrance of her late grandmother.
Her first single, “Papi”, was published on October 25, 2019, followed by her first music video released on November 6, 2019. On May 22, 2020, Merced delivered her debut EP, The Better Half of Me; and in July 2020 her song was labeled as one of Billboard’s top 15 new Peruvian artists to listen to.

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The Better Half of Me Isabela Merced Billboard hit

Her Movies

2013: The House That Jack Built she played the role of Young Nadia.
2016: Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life. Played the role of Jeanne Galleta.
2017: Transformers: The Last Knight where she stars as Izabella.
2017: The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, she appeared as Heather, she played the role with her Voice.
2017: Kingdom Hearts χ Back Cover. She played the role of Ava. It’s a Video game character and she gave her voice.
2018: Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Appeared as Isabel Reyes.
2018: Instant Family. Appeared as Lizzy.

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List of Movies

2019: Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Appeared as the leading character ‘Dora’
2019: Let It Snow. She performed as Julie
2021: Spirit Untamed. She played the role of Lucky Prescott. She gave her Voice.
2021: Sweet Girl. She appeared as Rachel Cooper. The movie is still in the post-production stage.

 

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List of movies Merced appeared in.

The latest movie in which she is working: Father of the Bride. It’s still being Filming.

 

Television roles

2014: Growing Up Fisher. She appeared as Jenny. She worked for 7 episodes.
2014–2017: Dora and Friends: Into the City! She gave the voice of Kate.
2014–2016: 100 Things to Do Before High School. She appeared as the leading ‘CJ Martin’
2015: Splitting Adam. She acted as Lori Collins.
2016: Legends of the Hidden Temple. She appeared as Sadie.

 

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List of Television shows by Merced

Awards and nominations

She was Nominated for the famous Imagen Awards for Best Young Actress( 2015 Television series) for 100 Things to Do Before High School.
In 2016 she won the Imagen Awards with the title ‘Best Young Television Actor’ for 100 Things to Do Before High School;
In 2017 Isabel gets Nominated for the Teen Choice Award for the movie Transformers: The Last Knight
In 2017 Isabel won the CinemaCon Award for Rising Star of the Year and also the Young Entertainers Award.
In 2019 she won the Young Entertainers Award as Best Leading Young Actress and also Imagen Awards as Best Actress – Feature Film

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Isabela Merced Complete Biography

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