“She looks exactly like him.”

The last of us viewers were shocked to discover that one of the show’s stars is the daughter of a famous actor.

HBO released the first episode of the highly anticipated series – which is a television adaptation of the 2013 video game – earlier this month.

The series is set 20 years after the destruction of modern civilization due to a massive fungal infection, which transforms its victims into zombie-like attackers.

In this film, Pedro Pascal plays Joel, a smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), across the post-apocalyptic United States.

During the first episode, broadcast on Sky on Monday January 16, many viewers noticed how the actor who plays Joel’s daughter Sarah (Nico Parker) resembles another Hollywood actor.

“Just discover Nice Parker from The last of us is Thandiwe Newton’s daughter and now it’s like, oh duh, of course she is. Just look at her,” one person said.

Another added: “Why did I think Sarah from The last of us looked so familiar but I’d never seen her in anything before and then I found out she was Thandiwe Newton’s daughter. She looks exactly like him.

“I didn’t even know Thandiwe Newton had a daughter until I saw her lookalike daughter, Nico Parker, in The last of us and I immediately knew it must be Thandiwe’s daughter,” a third person said. “And it’s!”

Someone else wrote: “Is Thandiwe Newton having a child because this little girl from The last of us she looks a lot like him.

Others commented that Parker is the Oscar winner’s “living spit”, with one person joking that she had “cloned” herself and that the 18-year-old was “Thandiwe Newton 2.0”.

Parker recently defended the show’s “inclusive” casting. When the casting was announced, a small group of fans wondered why Pascal, who is Chilean-American, and Parker were cast in white roles in the original game.

The last of us received overwhelmingly positive reviews from fans and critics alike, with many hailing the series as the best video game adaptation ever made. You can read The independentThe four-star review of the show here.

New episodes of The last of us are broadcast every week on Mondays on Sky.