Joel.

About Joel

Joel Miller is a character in the video game series The Last of Us by Naughty Dog. He is portrayed by Troy Baker through performance capture in the games, and by Pedro Pascal in the television adaptation. In the first game, The Last of Us (2013), Joel serves as the main protagonist and is tasked with escorting the young Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States in an attempt to create a potential cure for an infection to which Ellie is immune. He also appears briefly in the downloadable content campaign The Last of Us: Left Behind (2014). Joel is killed in The Last of Us Part II (2020) by a woman named Abby, whose father he murdered in the first game, prompting Ellie to seek revenge.