“Cobra Kai” promoted Vanessa Rubio and Peyton List to the regular status of the series before Season 4 on Netflix.
Rubio has been with the show since the first season in the role of Carmen Diaz, the mother of Johnny Lawrence’s pupil, Miguel. List joined the show in Season 2 as Tory Nichols, a tough member of Cobra Kai.
In addition, Dallas Dupree Young and Oona O’Brien joined Season 4. Young will return to being Kenny, a new boy bullied at school who uses karate as a way to defend himself. O’Brien will reappear as Devon, a potential new karate student who is tirelessly competitive, a fast scholar and just as temperamental when provoked.
Rubio’s previous credits include Netflix shows “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina”, “Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings” and “Master of None”. In the cinema, she appeared in “How to Be Single”, “The Hudson Tribes” and “The Girl in Trouble”.
She is represented by Buchwald, JWS Entertainment and Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
List is known for her role in the Disney series “Jessie” and in the spinoff “Bunk’d”. Other credits include “Happy Together”, “Light as a Feather” and Adam Sandler’s Netflix movie “Hubie Halloween”.
She is represented by CAA and Gang Tire.
Young has starred in “Cousins For Life” by Nickelodeon and has had roles in “Shameless” by Showtime, “The Good Place” by NBC, “Mixed ish” by ABC and “The Fosters” by Freeform, among others.
He is represented by Osbrink Talent Agency, Treadwell Entertainment Group and Myman Greenspan.
O’Brien was one of 11 young actors selected by Nickelodeon to study at the renowned Second City Training Center in Chicago in 2019. She has starred in theatrical productions for “Annie” and “School of Rock”.