Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians has found its Thalia Grace. Tamara Smart (Resident Evil) has joined the season two cast as a recurring guest star, playing Zeus’ daughter.
Smart joins returning series stars Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn, and Daniel Diemer in the upcoming season. The second season is based on Rick Riordan’s second novel of his Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, The Sea of Monsters.
Disney+ offers this description of Thalia: “Thalia is the Demigod daughter of Zeus who made her last stand to protect her friends at the edge of Camp Half-Blood. Rather than let her die, Zeus transformed her into a tree that anchors the force field that protects camp. Tough and prickly, with a rebel/punk sensibility, Thalia is fiercely loyal to her friends and distrustful of her father’s world.”
Commenting on Tamara Smart’s casting, author and executive producer Rick Riordan said, “Thalia Grace is one of the most important characters in the Percy Jackson universe, so the right casting was critical. Thalia is a powerful warrior, a fiercely loyal friend, and a demigod rebel with a very ‘punk’ / ‘rage-against-the-machine’ sensibility. As soon as we saw Tamara Smart play this role, we knew we had found our daughter of Zeus. She was, no pun intended, electric. Tamara puts the ‘grace’ in Thalia Grace!”
Riordan and executive producer Jonathan E. Steinberg created the series. Additional executive producers include Dan Shotz, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, Albert Kim, Bert Salke, D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Jason Ensler, Sarah Watson, and The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Jeremy Bell.