The Last Airbender Season 2 Cast & Character Guide

The cast of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 will feature familiar faces from its predecessor, combined with some new performers and characters. By the time of The Last Airbender season 1’s ending, Aang had pushed back the Fire Nation attack on the Northern Water Tribe and was planning to set off for the Earth Kingdom to find an Earthbending teacher. This would come as he honed his Airbending and Waterbending, harnessing the powers granted to him as one of The Last Airbender‘s many Avatars, the masters of all four elements.

This ending set up the story perfectly for The Last Airbender season 2’s time-jump, with Netflix confirming two more installments of the show to coincide with the three seasons of Nickelodeon’s original animated series. Where there is a new season, there will also be new stories, locations, action set pieces, and characters, with the latter element bringing new cast members, too, as will be the case for Netflix’s The Last Airbender season 3.

Firstly, though, as the adaptation continues into season 2, from the return of the actors of season 1 to the inclusion of The Last Airbender‘s Toph, the cast of the Netflix show is only expected to grow. With that in mind, here is every member of the Netflix’s show’s cast, from Avatar: The Last Airbender‘s main characters to the supporting players, villains, and everyone in between.

Gordon Cormier as Aang

Date of Birth: October 8, 2009

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Actor: Gordon Cormier is a Canadian actor born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Cormier’s career was fairly new when he was cast in Avatar: The Last Airbender, with earlier roles coming in TV shows such as Get Shorty, Lost in Space, and The Stand. Therefore, there is no denying that Cormier’s breakout role was Avatar: The Last Airbender, with the young actor being cast as the titular character in 2021.

Character: In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Cormier portrays Avatar Aang. Aang is the titular character who also happens to be the last known Airbender in the world. Aang was frozen in an iceberg for 100 years as the Fire Lord and the ruthless Fire Nation began their conquest of the world. As a bridge between The Last Airbender‘s Four Nations, it is Aang’s duty to stop the Fire Nation by learning the bending elements of water, earth, air, and fire.

In The Last Airbender season 1, Aang prevented the fall of the Water Tribes while learning waterbending from Katara. In The Last Airbender season 2, Aang and his friends turn their attention to the Earth Kingdom. From the Fire Nation’s continued assault against their main opposition to Aang’s need for an earthbending teacher, the Netflix show details a slightly older Avatar as he searches to move one step closer to defeating the Fire Lord.

Kiawentiio as Katara

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Date of Birth: April 28, 2006

Actor: Kiawentiio, born Kiawenti:io Tarbell, is a Canadian actor born in the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne, Ontario. Kiawentiio also has a singing career, though her acting credits began in 2020 with a Mohawk film called Beans. Kiawentiio then went on to appear in TV shows like Anne with an E, Rutherford Falls, and Marvel’s What If…?. Like Cormier, Kiawentiio’s breakout role came in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Character: Kiawentiio plays Katara in The Last Airbender, a girl from the Southern Water Tribe who uncovers Aang 100 years after he was frozen in the iceberg. Katara joined Aang on his journey to the North Pole as a way of both saving her sister tribe from annihilation and learning waterbending herself. In The Last Airbender season 2, Katara journeys with Aang to the Earth Kingdom, continuing her struggle to help displaced war refugees and defeat the Fire Nation threats she encounters.

Ian Ousley as Sokka

Date of Birth: March 28, 2002

Actor: Ian Ousley is an American actor born in College Station, Texas. Ousley’s career is exclusively limited to TV roles thus far, with his earlier roles coming in shows like Sorry for Your Loss, Thirteen Reasons Why, Young Sheldon, Big Shot, and Physical. Like the other two actors that make up the show’s central trio, Ousley’s breakout role came in The Last Airbender.

Character: Sokka is the older brother of Katara, also from The Last Airbender‘s Southern Water Tribe. Sokka is initially skeptical of Aang, yet agrees to help guide him to the North Pole alongside Katara. Sokka’s primary arc revolves around shirking the expectation for him to become a warrior of renown, one revered for his bravery and strength, with the character instead showing a desire to use his smarts and tactical knowledge to defeat the Fire Nation.

The Last Airbender season 2 continues this, with Sokka forming relationships with other intellectual characters like Sai and Professor Zei. This coincides with his trauma over losing Yue in The Last Airbender season 1’s finale and how that affects his relationship with Suki.

Miyako as Toph Beifong

Date of Birth: March 4, 2007

Actor: Miyako is an American actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Miyako’s work began slightly earlier than her costars, appearing in one-off appearances in shows like Hawaii Five-0, American Horror Story, and Arrow. Other roles include Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Astronauts, The Santa Clauses, Surfside Girls, and Beef. The Last Airbender will likely be Miyako’s breakout role, given that it is her first main one in a big-budget Hollywood TV series.

Character: Toph Beifong is the primary new character that will be introduced in Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2. Toph is the blind only child of an incredibly rich family in an Earth Kingdom town. However, unbeknownst to her parents, Toph is a master earthbender whose heightened senses allow her to exhibit powers unlike any others, resulting in her being the earthebending trainer of Aang.

Dallas Liu as Prince Zuko

Date of Birth: August 21, 2001

Actor: Dallas Liu is an American actor born in Los Angeles, California. Liu’s earliest appearances came in martial arts-centric movies and shows due to his background. Some of these movies include Tekken and Mortal Kombat: Legacy. Other TV roles include Legendary Dudas and Pen15. The actor also appeared in a brief role in Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, yet Avatar: The Last Airbender will prove to be Liu’s breakout role just as it will for his costars.

Character: Liu plays Prince Zuko in Avatar: The Last Airbender, the primary antagonist of season 1. Zuko is a prince of the Fire Nation who was banished by his father for speaking out against the Fire Nation military. In order to return and regain his honor, Zuko was tasked with tracking down and capturing the Avatar, the last threat to the Fire Lord’s power. However, Zuko’s backstory in The Last Airbender shows he is much deeper than simply an evil, mustache-twirling villain.

Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 proves as much after he is dubbed a traitor for opposing the Fire Nation’s Admiral Zhao. In season 2, Zuko and his uncle, Iroh, travel the Earth Kingdom as refugees, learning about the other side of the war they once fought on. Continuing to be torn between what he feels is right and the duty that has been forced upon him, The Last Airbender season 2 massively deepens Zuko’s character.

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Uncle Iroh

Date of Birth: August 16, 1972

Actor: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee is a Canadian actor born in Daejong, Chungnam, South Korea. Lee’s early career consisted of smaller TV roles and movies until he was cast in the public eye slightly more with the Canadian soap opera Train 48. After this, Lee appeared in the likes of 2014’s RoboCop remake and Degrassi: The Next Generation. After these appearances, Lee received his breakout role in Kim’s Convenience, leading him to be cast in Star Wars TV shows like The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka before Netflix’s The Last Airbender.

Character: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee plays Iroh in The Last Airbender, the uncle of Prince Zuko. Iroh is the more benevolent, kindhearted brother of Fire Lord Ozai, who has always cared for Zuko. Upon Zuko’s banishment, Iroh opted to go with his nephew so that the exiled prince had some family with him on the fool’s errand issued by his father. Iroh is dubbed the Dragon of the West, an indicator of his past strength as a general of the Fire Nation, with Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 promising to delve deeper into Iroh’s past.

Daniel Dae Kim as Fire Lord Ozai

Date of Birth: August 4, 1968

Actor: Daniel Dae Kim is an American actor born in Busan, South Korea. Some of Kim’s earlier roles came in superhero movies like 2003’s Hulk and Spider-Man 2, with more prominent TV roles including Crusade, Miss Match, Star Trek: Enterprise, ER, and 24. Kim’s breakout role came in 2004 when he was cast in Lost, with Kim having since become somewhat of a character actor. Some of Kim’s roles include TV efforts like Hawaii Five-0 and The Good Doctor, with his movie appearances including The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Divergent Series: Allegiant, and 2019’s Hellboy.

Character: Fire Lord Ozai is the central villain of Avatar: The Last Airbender, the villainous tyrant who wishes to conquer the Earth Kingdom and Water Tribes in the name of the Fire Nation. Much like in the animated version of the show, The Last Airbender does not present Fire Lord Ozai with much compassion or sympathetic motivations, instead having him serve as the show’s big bad for Aang to overcome.

Interestingly, Ozai did not appear until season 3 of the original show. This meant that a lot of his scenes for season 1 were original creations for the Netflix show. The same can be said for his season 2 scenes, with season 3 being the first that is set to include previous scenes of Fire Lord Ozai from the original show.

Elizabeth Yu as Princess Azula

Date of Birth: October 6, 2002

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Actor: Elizabeth Yu is an American actor born in New Jersey. Yu’s career is much less fleshed out than her costars, with her first appearance coming in a movie named Somewhere in Queens. Yu then appeared in a 2023 movie titled May December before appearing in the 2024 movies Year One and Womb. Undoubtedly, Yu’s breakout role is also The Last Airbender, a show that will promise to give her a bigger catalog of roles in the future.

Character: Elizabeth Yu portrays Azula in The Last Airbender, the sister of Zuko and the princess of the Fire Nation. Unlike Zuko, who is more like his kindhearted uncle, Azula is much more ruthless and shows the tyrannical tendencies of her father. In The Last Airbender season 1, Azula’s role primarily served as an origin, showcasing how she gained her father’s favor over Zuko and her ability to be an asset in her father’s war.

Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 will give Azula a much bigger role as she hunts down Aang while furthering the Fire Nation’s war efforts in the Earth Kingdom. Season 2 of the original show was the first time Azula was given a big role in the story, meaning Netflix’s second installment is set to adapt that. From her conquest of Omashu to her attempts to bring Zuko home, defeat the Avatar, and take down Ba Sing Se, Azula’s role in Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 is much bigger than it was in season 1.

Every Supporting Character In Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2

Utkarsh Ambudkar as King Bumi: Bumi appears briefly in one of Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2’s opening episodes, telling Aang that he must find an earthbending teacher who waits and listens before striking. Bumi appeared in season 1 and likely will in season 3, with Ambudkar returning after roles in Pitch Perfect, Free Guy, and Tick, Tick… Boom!

Thalia Tran as Mai: A staunch ally of Azula and childhood lover of Zuko, Mai is introduced in The Last Airbender season 2 as part of the former’s crack team to find Zuko, bring him back to the Fire Lord, and take down the Avatar. Tran is known for Raya and the Last Dragon and Council of Dads.

Momona Tamada as Ty Lee: Ty Lee is a contortionist and another childhood friend of Azula and Mai. With the ability to block benders’ chi and remove their powers temporarily, Ty Lee is a valuable member of Azula’s team. Tamada previously had roles in The Main Event, Secret Headquarters, and The Baby-Sitters Club.

Maria Zhang as Suki: The leader of the Kyoshi Warriors, Suki befriended Aang, Katara, and Sokka in The Last Airbender season 1. In season 2, Suki and her warriors return after being inspired by the group to fight the Fire Nation more directly. Zhang is known for her other role in The Rookie.

Danny Pudi as Sai: An inventor who was forced to work against Omashu in season 1. In The Last Airbender season 2, Sai discovers vital information about the war with the Fire Nation, leading him to Ba Sing Se alongside Aang and his friends. Pudi is primarily known for his role as Abed in Community.

Sebastian Aramuso as Jet: Jet was the one coercing Sai in The Last Airbender season 1, with season 2 continuing to show his vendetta against anything remotely linked to the Fire Nation.

Randall Duk Kim as Wan Shi Tong (Voice): An owl spirit and collector of knowledge, Wan Shi Tong is the guardian of the spirit library visited in Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2. Kim is primarily known for his voice work in the Kung Fu Panda series as Master Oogway or as the Keymaker in The Matrix.

Chin Han as Long Feng: Long Feng is the cultural minister of Ba Sing Se, meaning he plays a big role in Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2 as both a mysterious ally and a dangerous enemy to Aang and his friends. Han is a prolific character actor, most recently known for portraying Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II.

Hoa Xuande as Professor Zei: Zei, a professor at Ba Sing Se University, craves knowledge. Alongside Sokka, he is important in leading Aang and the others to Wan Shi Tong’s library. Xuande is known for another live-action adaptation on Netflix, Cowboy Bebop, as well as HBO’s The Sympathizer.

Lily Gao as Ursa: An important addition to Avatar: The Last Airbender season 2’s cast is Lily Gao as Ursa, the mother of Zuko and Azula, who plays a vital role in the backstory of both siblings. Gao is known for prior roles in The Expanse and Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

Lourdes Faberes as General Sung: The leader of the Earth Kingdom military in Ba Sing Se, who allies herself with Katara, Sokka, and Aang during their time in the city. Faberes is primarily known for her role in Prime Video’s Good Omens.

Justin Chien as Earth King Kue: The king of the Earth Kingdom who chooses to live in ignorance about the world outside of his walls. Chien is known for his role in The Brothers Sun.

Amanda Zhou as Joo Dee: The guide to Team Avatar once they arrive in Ba Sing Se. Joo Dee plays an important role in unmasking the secrets within the city’s walls. Amanda Zhou is known for Spinning Out and The Handmaid’s Tale.

Dichen Lachman as Avatar Yangchen: The most recent airbending Avatar before Aang, who appears to him in times of crisis. Lachman was cast as Yangchen for both Avatar: The Last Airbender seasons 2 and 3, teasing her important role going forward. Lachman is primarily known for Severance, Dollhouse, and Agents of SHIELD.

Release Date

February 22, 2024

Network

Netflix

Showrunner

Albert Kim

Directors

Jet Wilkinson

Writers

Joshua Hale Fialkov, Christine Boylan