The Earth Kingdom Is Calling: Avatar: The Last Airbender Season 2 Drops an Exciting Cast Reveal That Fans Won’t Want to Miss
Long ago, four nations lived together in harmony. Now the Water Tribe, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads are all converging on one legendary city: Ba Sing Se, where nothing is as peaceful as it seems.
When we last saw Team Avatar in Season 1 of the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender, Avatar Aang (Gordon Cormier) had begun embracing his destiny as the Avatar after helping defend the Northern Water Tribe from a devastating Fire Nation attack. Katara (Kiawentiio) stepped into her power as a waterbender, Sokka (Ian Ousley) proved himself as a leader and strategist, and Prince Zuko (Dallas Liu) found himself increasingly torn between capturing the Avatar and forging his own path. Meanwhile, Fire Lord Ozai (Daniel Dae Kim) tightened his grip on the war, setting the stage for an even greater conflict ahead.
In Season 2, streaming now, Aang, Katara, and Sokka journey deep into Earth Kingdom territory in search of an earthbending master and a way to warn the world about a looming comet. Along the way, they meet earthbending prodigies, underground fighters, wary refugees, and spirits guarding secret knowledge, each of whom has a stake in the fate of the kingdom’s land.
“Our goal for Season 1 was to introduce the audience to this group of characters that were kids, and they’re kids who are in a war,” executive producer Jabbar Raisani tells Tudum. “In Season 2, we take those kids, and they grow. But growth is not a straight line … they’re really trying to figure out who they are.” As alliances shift and enemies collide, that journey of self-discovery continues to shape Team Avatar, and the unlikely found family that forms around them in the fight against Ozai and his Fire Nation army.
As you watch the new Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes, meet the cast and characters shaping Season 2’s journey through the Earth Kingdom — from Team Avatar to the rulers, rebels, and spirits hidden within Ba Sing Se’s walls.
TEAM AVATAR
FIRE NATION
EARTH KINGDOM
PAST AVATARS & SPIRITS
TEAM AVATAR
Gordon Cormier
as AANG
About the Character
Aang is the Avatar, an airbending prodigy who’s now pushing himself to master earthbending while the threat of the coming comet hangs over everything he does. He’s constantly trying to stay hopeful and lighthearted, even as the war, and what the Avatar State can do, weighs on him in ways he can’t ignore.
That inner conflict shapes Aang in Season 2, as he steps more fully into the responsibility he once tried to run from. “At the end of Season 1, Aang finally accepts that he’s the Avatar,” Cormier tells Tudum. “I feel like he’s just so motivated this season, and that’s what it’s about — pushing to become the Avatar.”
According to executive producer Christine Boylan, that growth is reflected in Cormier’s performance as well. “Gordon is the Aang you want, but he’s also flesh and blood — a person growing up before your eyes, exactly like Aang would have if he were not animated,” she says.
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Kiawentiio
as KATARA
About the Character
Katara is growing into a powerful waterbender and healer, stepping up as the moral center of the group while they cross the Earth Kingdom. She’s the first to reach out to people in trouble, and her determination to help — whether it’s refugees, children, or entire villages — keeps pulling Team Avatar into the places others overlook.
As the journey becomes more dangerous in Season 2, Katara’s empathy starts to sharpen into something even stronger: confidence in her own voice, instincts, and abilities. Boylan says that growth comes through in Kiawentiio’s performance.
“Kiawentiio brings such a grounded, thoughtful energy to Katara. You can see her processing everything that’s happening around her and making choices that are both compassionate and strong,” says Boylan. “As Season 2 goes on and the stakes get higher, she leans into that even more, and it feels like watching Katara step into a new level of maturity. There’s a real sense that she’s starting to claim her own path in the middle of the war.”
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Ian Ousley
as SOKKA
About the Character
Sokka, the team’s strategist and resident skeptic, is always sketching a new plan, gadget, or distraction to keep everyone one step ahead. He leans on humor when things get dark, but as he sees more of the war up close, he takes his role as protector and planner more seriously than he lets on.
In Season 2, those instincts make Sokka more essential to Team Avatar than ever. Beneath the jokes and improvisation is someone constantly calculating risks, solving problems, and trying to keep the people he loves safe; something Boylan says Ian Ousley captures perfectly.
“Sokka is a genius, Sokka is an engineer — he’s not just a warrior. He’s incredibly good at fighting, but his strategic mind is so important. Ian was able to embody that kind of person who thinks 20 steps ahead,” Boylan says. “Sokka is hilarious, obviously, and Ian is hilarious — and I don’t know if he knew how good a dramatic actor he is. He certainly found a way to balance both.”
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Miyako
as TOPH
About the Character
Toph Beifong is a blind earthbending master who becomes Aang’s teacher and the newest addition to Team Avatar in Season 2. Though her tough, blunt teaching style sometimes causes her to clash with Aang, she pushes him to face his fears and see the world from a new perspective.
Toph immediately changes the group’s dynamic the moment she arrives. She’s fearless, stubborn, and never afraid to knock the others down a peg. But underneath all of that is someone who quickly becomes a vital part of the team. Boylan says Miyako brought all of those layers to the role from the start.
“We all play a lot of Dungeons & Dragons, and you always want a healer, you want a tank, you want a front-line guy. Toph is the tank,” Boylan explains. “Miyako understood the assignment. She understood everything about Toph, in terms of quips, in terms of negging all her friends to show love and affection, in terms of her confidence.”
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FIRE NATION
Daniel Dae Kim
as FIRE LORD OZAI
About the Character
Fire Lord Ozai sits at the center of the Fire Nation’s war effort, directing campaigns and assigning his children missions that ripple throughout the world. From the throne, he decides who leads, who is punished, and who is “forgiven,” using his own family as instruments of his ambition.
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Dallas Liu
as ZUKO
About the Character
Zuko is a skilled firebender and the exiled Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, now wandering the Earth Kingdom far from his father’s court. Still driven by ideas of honor and destiny shaped by Fire Lord Ozai, he’s forced in Season 2 to confront how those royal expectations clash with the people he meets and the life he might want for himself.
Separated from the Fire Nation and stripped of the status he once clung to, Zuko spends much of Season 2 questioning who he is when no one is telling him who to be. According to Liu, that emotional push and pull is what makes Zuko’s journey feel so relatable.
“It’s like a roller coaster: He has some ups, a lot of downs. But I think his character arc is as human as it gets,” says Liu. “He makes some good choices, he makes some bad ones. But more than anything, I think he’s just trying his best.”
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Elizabeth Yu
as AZULA
About the Character
Azula is a firebending prodigy and the razor‑sharp Princess of the Fire Nation, sent by Fire Lord Ozai on missions that pull her into the heart of the Earth Kingdom conflict. As a royal raised to see the world as something to be controlled, she brings the precision of the Fire Nation court and the full force of its ambitions into Ba Sing Se.
Beyond her confidence and calculated cruelty, Azula is also shaped by immense pressure, expectation, and isolation. Boylan says exploring those layers was one of the most important parts of bringing the character to life in Season 2.
“I am a villain girlie. I love writing villains. Azula was always a favorite character of mine, so I wanted to honor the journey that she goes through,” Boylan says. “One of the first things I said to the writers and then to the actors was, ‘Growth is not a straight line.’ It’s very important to me to show that these are all real people … [and] all of that comes to bear with Azula in particular because she goes through so much. I’m very protective of Azula.”
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Paul Sun-Hyung Lee
as UNCLE IROH
About the Character
Iroh is a retired Fire Nation general and former Crown Prince, older brother to Fire Lord Ozai and uncle to Prince Zuko. Once destined for the throne himself, he now lives in exile alongside Zuko, trading court intrigue for tea shops, even as his experience with the Fire Nation’s war and royal family continues to shape the choices they both face in the Earth Kingdom.
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Hiro Kanagawa
as FIRE LORD SOZIN
About the Character
Fire Lord Sozin is the long‑dead ruler of the Fire Nation who began the Hundred Year War, infamously using Sozin’s Comet to launch a devastating campaign against the other nations and wipe out the Air Nomads. In Season 2, his legacy looms large as the comet’s return approaches, forcing Aang and the others to confront not just a date on the horizon, but the original vision of conquest that Ozai now seeks to finish.
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Momona Tamada
as TY LEE
About the Character
Ty Lee is a bubbly acrobat turned chi‑blocking fighter, whose playful energy and pinpoint strikes make her one of Azula’s most unpredictable and dangerous allies.
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Thalia Tran
as MAI
About the Character
Mai is a deadpan knife‑thrower from Fire Nation nobility and one of Azula’s closest companions, meeting every crisis with precision but also with a bored nonchalance that hides her feelings.
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Jeremiah Oh
as GENERAL VINH TRAN
About the Character
A decorated young Fire Nation officer, General Vinh Tran is unexpectedly elevated in rank to lead a crucial campaign, placing him at the center of shifting ambitions within the royal family.
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Terry Chen
as JEONG JEONG
About the Character
Once a high‑ranking Fire Nation officer, Jeong Jeong now lives among Fire Nation refugees in the Earth Kingdom, carrying the weight of the world he walked away from.
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EARTH KINGDOM
Justin Chien
as KING KUEI
About the Character
King Kuei is the sheltered ruler of Ba Sing Se.
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Chin Han
as LONG FENG
About the Character
Long Feng is the calculating Grand Secretariat of Ba Sing Se, the Earth Kingdom’s capital.
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Lourdes Faberes
as GENERAL SUNG
About the Character
General Sung commands the Earth Kingdom forces at the great outer wall. She’s a seasoned soldier who understands just how close the Fire Nation really is to Ba Sing Se.
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Gabriel Prevost-Takahashi
as LIEUTENANT KHETTRY
About the Character
Lieutenant Khettry serves on the front lines at Ba Sing Se’s outer wall, caught between his duty to defend the city and the increasingly complicated orders coming from above.
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Amanda Zhou
as JOO DEE
About the Character
Joo Dee is Team Avatar’s polite, always smiling guide to the city.
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Maria Zhang
as SUKI
About the Character
Suki is the confident, highly skilled leader of the Kyoshi Warriors. She’s now taking her training beyond Kyoshi Island to protect villages and refugees across the Earth Kingdom. In Season 2, her path crosses with Team Avatar again — she brings both her disciplined fighting style and a quietly complicated connection with Sokka into a much larger war.
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Danny Pudi
as SAI (THE MECHANIST)
About the Character
Living in Ba Sing Se under his own name, Sai is a brilliant engineer whose work with the stars and machines accidentally places him at the center of the Fire Nation’s long‑range plans.
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Lucian-River Chauhan
as TEO
About the Character
Teo is the Mechanist’s idealistic, flight‑obsessed son whose ingenuity and courage help carry the fight against the Fire Nation into the skies.
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Sebastian Amoruso
as JET
About the Character
Jet is a charismatic young freedom fighter whose arrival in Ba Sing Se brings his relentless war against the Fire Nation into the heart of the Earth Kingdom’s capital.
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Wes Valarao
as SMELLERBEE
About the Character
Smellerbee is one of Jet’s most trusted companions, a sharp and loyal fighter who follows him from the forests into the streets of Ba Sing Se.
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Nathaniel Kong
as LONGSHOT
About the Character
Longshot is an archer with unerring aim, offering steady backup to Jet and Smellerbee as they navigate the hidden dangers of life in the city.
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Rekha Sharma
as AMITA
About the Character
Amita is a refugee from Omashu trying to rebuild her life in Ba Sing Se. Her faith in small acts of courage and old river‑spirit stories resonates deeply with Katara.
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Kelsey Lopes
as JIN
About the Character
Jin is a warm‑hearted Ba Sing Se local whose kindness and curiosity offer a rare glimpse of ordinary city life to a certain boy from the tea shop.
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James Sie
as the CABBAGE MERCHANT
About the Character
The Cabbage Merchant is a long‑suffering vendor whose beloved cabbages seem destined to be destroyed whenever Team Avatar and the chaos of the war pass through town.
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Utkarsh Ambudkar
as KING BUMI
About the Character
King Bumi is the eccentric, centuries‑old ruler of Omashu and one of the most powerful earthbenders in the world. In Season 2, even as his city falls under Fire Nation control, he remains several steps ahead of everyone else. He offers Aang unconventional wisdom about patience, timing, and the true strength behind standing still.
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PAST AVATARS & SPIRITS
Dichen Lachman
as AVATAR YANGCHEN
About the Character
Yangchen is the Air Nomad Avatar who came before Aang, offering calm, clear‑eyed guidance as he struggles with the burden and risks of the Avatar’s power.
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Yvonne Chapman
as AVATAR KYOSHI
About the Character
Avatar Kyoshi is a legendary past Avatar known for her towering presence, decisive action, and unwavering belief that justice sometimes requires hard lines. In Season 2, her legacy and writings challenge Aang and others to reconsider what balance really means when the world is at war.
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Meegwun Fairbrother
as AVATAR KURUK
About the Character
Avatar Kuruk is a previous Avatar whose seemingly carefree exterior hid a history marked by spiritual loss and regret. His story in Season 2 serves as a cautionary example for Aang of what can happen when an Avatar underestimates the weight of their responsibilities.
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C.S. Lee
as AVATAR ROKU
About the Character
Avatar Roku is Aang’s immediate predecessor from the Fire Nation, a wise and burdened mentor who understands the origins of the current war better than anyone. In Season 2, his past choices and warnings continue to frame Aang’s struggle with Sozin’s legacy and the looming return of the comet.
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Randall Duk Kim
as WAN SHI TONG
About the Character
Wan Shi Tong is the Spirit of Knowledge, appearing as a towering owl who guards a vast hidden library filled with the world’s secrets. In Season 2, his domain becomes a crucial stop for Team Avatar as they seek information about the war, but his patience is wearing dangerously thin with humans using knowledge for conflict.
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