All Main Characters And Their Actors In The Netflix Avatar: The Last Airbender Show

The live-action incarnation of the popular Avatar: The Last Airbender animated series is now available on Netflix. The show itself has received some mixed reviews, but there seems to be a consensus that the casting, overall, is on point.

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The main characters of the show are a new cast, and none of them were involved in the movie or the cartoon. A definite improvement in the Netflix version over the 2010 movie is that the actors are a much better representation of their characters in the original series.

6 Katara

Played By Kiawentiio

Katara is one of the most popular characters in the series and the most important person in the story aside from the Avatar himself. The actor playing her in the Netflix version is Kiawenti: io Tarbell, also known as Kiawentiio, and she's a Canadian singer and songwriter who is also an actor.

She was born on the Canadian side of Akwesasne, in Ontario, and her first name means 'pleasant morning' in her native language of Kanienʼkéha. Kiawentiio's previous roles include Ka'kwet in the series Anne With An E and as the title character in Beans (2020), a film about the Oka Crisis. This was an armed standoff that took place between the Mohawk communities and the Quebec authorities in 1990.

5 Aang

Played By Gordon Cormier

His full name is Gordon Kyle Diez Cormie, and before playing Avatar Aang he was in various high-profile television shows, and many of them were also adaptations. His previous roles include recurring and supporting characters in Get Shorty, A Christmas Miracle, Lost In Space, and The Stand.

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Gordon is also Canadian and was born in Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada, and shares both European and Filipino ancestry. In February 2024, he was one of the actors chosen to promote the live-action series in the Philippines, along with Zuko actor Dallas Liu. As the star of the show, a lot of eyes are on Cormie to carry the plot, and reviews of his performance have been positive.

4 Sokka

Played By Ian Ousley

Ian Ousely was born in College Station in Texas, and his career started as a Tae Kwon Do blackbelt before he was cast as Robby Corman in 13 Reasons Why, his highest-profile role before taking on the role of Sokka. He also has Cherokee ancestry.

Sokka is everyone's favorite non-bender, and not only because he's the show's main comic relief. His character arc, which includes learning to be a warrior and coming of age as a leader of the Water Tribe, is one of the best and most complete in the whole show. This is why some changes to Sokka in this regard were controversial among the fan base.

3 Zuko

Played By Dallas Liu

A martial arts expert as well as an experienced actor, Dallas Liu made his first on-screen appearance as a young Jin Kazama in the movie adaptation of the Tekken video game of the same title in 2009. It was one of his martial arts teachers who recommended he try out for the role.

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With one Marvel title under his black belt, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, in which he portrayed Ruihua, Liu has more experience with big-budget events-driven films than many of his co-stars. The role of Zuko is a demanding one, and other than Sokka he has the most dramatic arc in the show, eventually turning on his family and teaching Aang the art of Fire bending.

2 Uncle Iroh

Played By Paul Sun-Hyung Lee

The character of Uncle Iroh has a special place in the hearts of Avatar fans. Brought to life by the voice talents of Mako in the original show and his theme song of a mournful tsungi horn, Iroh is the brother of Fire Lord Ozai, uncle to Azula and Zuko, and acts as a mentor to many of the show's younger characters, but mostly lends his aid to nephew Zuko.

Paul Sun-Hyung Lee takes on this beloved character in the Netflix series. He was born in Daejeon, South Korea, and also holds Canadian citizenship and attended the University of Toronto. His acting credentials include both television and movies, such as the drama Train 48 and both the stage play and television adaptation of Kim's Convenience in 2012. He also appeared as X-wing pilot Captain Carson Teva, who appeared in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.

1 Azula

Played By Elizabeth Yu

Zuko's younger sister and the golden child of the Fire Nation royal family, Azula is one of the main antagonists in the Avatar: The Last Airbender saga. Despite her role as one of the dedicated bad guys, she walks a fine line. She played in the Netflix adaptation by Elizabeth Yu, whose previous credits include two films, Somewhere in Queens: Year One (2022) and May December (2023).

The character of Azula barely appeared at all in Book One: Water, which is the first part of the animated series, only being sent after her brother and uncle in the final episode. The narrative in the Netflix version is changed slightly to put her in a prominent role much earlier, making her the driving force behind Zhao's plot instead of the person sent to take up the search after he failed.

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