"The Last of Us" Season 3 Adds Patrick Wilson to Cast

HBO’s "The Last of Us" is expanding its cast for season three.

Patrick Wilson and Jason Ritter have signed on for recurring roles in the drama based on the video game franchise.

Additionally, Ariella Barer, Tati Gabrielle, and Spencer Lord have been upped to series regular status after having recurring roles in season two.

Season three of "The Last of Us," due in 2027, is set to focus on Kaitlyn Dever’s Abby. 

Wilson (the Conjuring franchise, Fargo) will recur as Abby’s father, Jerry. Ritter (Matlock) will play Hanley, a Washington Liberation Front soldier.

Ritter also appeared in the show’s first season, playing a fungus-infected clicker during his wife Melanie Lynskey’s arc as resistance leader Kathleen Coghlan. His season three appearance will, presumably, come without him requiring loads of prosthetics.

Barer, Gabrielle, and Lord will continue their roles as, respectively, Mel, Nora Harris, and Owen Moore. They each appeared in three episodes of season two.

Bella Ramsey, Isabela Merced, Gabriel Luna, and Jeffrey Wright are also set to return, with Clea DuVall and Jorge Lendeborg Jr. also joining the cast.

"The Last of Us" is going into season three with co-creator Craig Mazin as the sole showrunner after Neil Druckmann — who developed the video game for Naughty Dog and co-created the HBO series — departed the show.

“With work completed on season 2 and before any meaningful work starts on season 3, now is the right time for me to transition my complete focus to Naughty Dog and its future projects,” Druckmann said last July.