Isabela Merced is set to portay an infamous Latina…
The 25-year-old half-Peruvian American actress will portray Lorena Bobbitt in the second installment of Hulu’s true-crime anthology Good American Family.
Merced, who most recently starred in The Last of Us, will star opposite Patrick Schwarzenegger, who will portray John Bobbitt.
Not yet titled, the limited series is inspired by the ripped-from-the-headlines story of the infamous Virginia couple, who incited a media circus that treated trauma as entertainment, launched a thousand dirty jokes and ignited a gender war.
The story revolves around an infamous 1993 incident in which Lorena cut off her husband’s penis with a kitchen knife after an argument at home. She later chalked up the act to abuse during their marriage.
The Bobbitt-focused season comes from the same studio, 20th Television, and the same creative team as the first. Katie Robbins is creator, writer and exec produces alongside Ellen Pompeo, who starred in the first season revolving around the stranger-than-fiction adoption story of Ukrainian orphan Natalia Grace Barnett.
Good American Family debuted in March 2025 and has amassed more than 140 million hours streamed globally on Hulu and Disney+. Its finale was the biggest of 2025 across those platforms. Pompeo and Laura Holstein executive produce the series under their Calamity Jane banner, alongside Robbins, Andrew Stearn and Sarah Sutherland. We announced the anthology expansion in August.
Merced is perhaps best known for playing Dina in HBO’s The Last of Us and for her role as Hawkgirl in James Gunn’s Superman.
Additional credits include the John Green adaptation Turtles All the Way Down and Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus.
Upcoming, she’ll be seen in The Last of Us Season 3 and the Superman follow-up Man of Tomorrow, as well as films Ibelin, Psyche and The House of the Dead.
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