

His life is thrown into turmoil when he meets Ellie, who reminds him of his daughter. Twenty-odd years later, Joel is a black market smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone doing whatever it takes to make ends meet. While attempting to flee his home with his 12-year-old Sarah, they got into a confrontation with a soldier who ended up killing the girl. Born and raised in Texas, he became a single father in his early 20s, just at the start of the outbreak. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and The Earthborn Trilogy.Joel is a bitter survivor of the initial infection outburst. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. So stay tuned for any big announcements, forthcoming…įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

In summary, yes, I believe that was at least supposed to be Dina, or else why would they have included it at all? And that girl looks a lot like Dina for someone who was onscreen for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment.īut we don’t know if the actress, Paolina van Kleef is about to graduate from a relative unknown to one of the most important characters of one of HBO’s biggest shows in season 2. But Part 2 is five years later, so those numbers may work, especially if she looks younger, as I believe Dina is supposed to be around 20 or 21 in the game. Sourcing is questionable on this, but van Kleef is supposedly 26 in real life, 7 years older than Bellay Ramsey is now, 19 playing a 14 year old Ellie.

So the odds are high that was at least meant to be her, but it’s another question entirely whether van Kleef will be the one to ultimately play her after appearing as her for two seconds. As for Paolina van Kleef, she’s just such a new actress there’s barely anything to know about her other than she looks like Dina, she was in an episode where we are where Dina lives in the second game, even if the first game didn’t have any kind of cameo like this.
