The actor playing one of the hospital nurses is kind of a big deal.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Last of Usseason 1 finale.
Technically, Laura Bailey does too just not the role fans immediately think of.

Laura Bailey played the role of Abby, a pivotal character to 2020’s ‘The Last of Us Part II’.Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage; Naughty Dog
The end credits of the episode confirm that Bailey is playing one of the nurses.
The actress is now serving in that same capacity in the adaptation.
“She was like, ‘Come on!

Darren Dolynski as the surgeon and Laura Bailey and Ana Rice as the nurses in ‘The Last of Us’ season 1 finale.Liane Hentscher/HBO
Lemme do it.
“We were like, ‘We love you.
Of course!'”

A scene from ‘The Last of Us’ video game in which Joel stops the doctor from operating on Ellie.Naughty Dog
“I won’t tell you which one she is, by the way,” he added.
“The two nurses look very similar.”
“Maybe we’ll do something else with her in the next season,” Druckmann said of Bailey.
It was the same thing that happened the first time Merle put the Marlene wig on.
So maybe when the season’s over, I’ll tweet that picture up for her.”