Isabela Merced, born Isabela Yolanda Moner is an American actress and singer. She is popular for her lead role as CJ Martin on the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School (2014–2016) and voiced Kate in Nickelodeon’s animated spinoff series Dora and Friends: Into the City! (2014–2017). She also played Izabella in Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), Lizzy in Instant Family (2018), Isabel in Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018), the titular character in Dora and the Lost City of Gold (2019), and Rachel Cooper in the Netflix film Sweet Girl (2021). In this post, we will take a look at who her parents Katherine Moner and Patrick Moner are. Find out more about Isabela Merced’s parents below.
Isabela Merced Biography
Merced was born on July 10, 2001, in Ohio. Her parents are Katherine and Patrick Moner. At age 15, Isabela entered college. Merced began acting after her family’s Cleveland home was destroyed by a fire. Merced was a Judy Garland fan, so her parents, wanting to distract her from the loss, asked her if she wanted to audition for a local production of The Wizard of Oz. She agreed and was cast as a Munchkin. A local theatre director urged the family to relocate to New York City, which they did, to help her pursue a career on Broadway.
Isabela Merced Career
From an early age, Merced had always desired to be an actress. She made her Broadway debut at age ten in a production of Evita, in which she sang in Spanish with Ricky Martin. She then released an album produced by Broadway Records in September 2015, entitled Stopping Time.
Isabela’s first starring performance was as CJ Martin, the lead role on the Nickelodeon television series 100 Things to Do Before High School, from 2014 to 2016. That same year, she began providing the voice of Kate, one of the main characters in the Dora the Explorer spinoff, Dora and Friends: Into the City!, a role she performed from 2014 to 2017.
In 2015, she appeared as Lori Collins in the Nickelodeon Original Movie Splitting Adam and was cast as Sadie, one of the leading roles, in the 2016 Nickelodeon Original Movie Legends of the Hidden Temple. In May 2016, Merced was cast in the film Transformers: The Last Knight, which was released in June 2017. She voiced Heather in the animated film The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, which was theatrically released on August 11, 2017.
In March 2022, it was announced Merced would star in “Turtles All the Way Down”, a film adaptation of the 2017 novel by John Green, which began filming in April 2022. In March 2023, Merced joined the cast of Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus. Merced was cast as Hawkgirl in the DC Universe (DCU) film Superman: Legacy (2025) in July 2023. In January 2024, Merced was cast as Dina in season 2 of The Last of Us.
Isabela Merced Parents: Meet Katherine Moner And Patrick Moner
Katherine Moner born Katherine Pizarro is a Peruvian woman born in Lima. She is best known as the mother of popular actress and singer Isabela Merced. Katherine is married to Patrick Moner, a firefighter born in Louisiana. Katherine married Patrick at a younger age in Cleveland, Ohio. The couple has three children named Jared, Isabela and Giovanni.
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