7 things you probably didn't know about 'The Last of Us' star Bella Ramsey

Don't be surprised if we hear Ramsey sing and play guitar on the next season of "The Last of Us," something her video-game character does in the game.

The actor wrote "Birdy Song" for Lena Dunham's Prime Video medieval comedy "Catherine Called Birdy."

Ramsey revealed on Twitter she wrote the song after friends were mean to her at a sleepover at the age of 10.

Ramsey also wrote and sang "The Life of Hilda" for Netflix's second season of its animated series "Hilda" after the series' voice director, Dave Peacock, suggested the idea "as a joke." 

"I recorded this version of Hilda singing her song at home over lockdown," Ramsey shared on Instagram. "I couldn't believe it when the team wanted to use it."

You can watch Ramsey perform covers on the guitar on her personal YouTube channel.

"I guess my gender has always been very fluid," the actor told The New York Times in a January profile. "Someone would call me 'she' or 'her' and I wouldn't think about it, but I knew that if someone called me 'he' it was a bit exciting."

Ramsey added she has no preference in what pronouns are used to describe her.

"I'm very much just a person," Ramsey said. "Being gendered isn't something that I particularly like, but in terms of pronouns, I really couldn't care less."

In December 2019, Ramsey launched a 42-second trailer for a podcast where she planned to discuss a random topic each week.

"Not Bella Ramsey" was dedicated to people "who are indecisive and have no idea what they are looking for in a podcast" and for fans "remotely interested" in her life.

"'Not Bella Ramsey' was a bad idea that I had," Ramsey told Josh Horowitz on the "Happy, Sad, Confused" podcast. "I tried to get that taken down."

"It was a terrible idea and I never did it other than the trailer," Ramsey said of thinking she wanted to do a podcast at the time.

In order to portray Ellie, a 14-year-old who is seemingly immune to a deadly infection, Ramsey cut her locks in July 2021.

According to The New York Times, Ramsey held onto her hair, keeping it stowed in a bag.

When cast as Ellie, one of the show's leads, Ramsey was advised not to play the hit video game as a reference point for the role.

"After my first audition, they asked me, 'Have you played it?' And I said, 'Nope,' and they said, 'Keep it that way,'" Ramsey told USA Today. "I did watch some of the gameplay on YouTube just to get a sense of it."

Ramsey started playing the first game after the show premiered on HBO.

"It's not as weird as I thought it'd be," Ramsey said on the "Happy, Sad, Confused" podcast in February, adding that she was playing on the game's easiest mode.

Her costar, Pedro Pascal, attempted to play the Naughty Dog video game despite being told to avoid it. 

"My nephews were watching me play and eventually got tired of my inability to complete the level, so they took my controller from me," Pascal told IGN.

"I failed my first test," Ramsey said on the "Happy, Sad, Confused" podcast. "I pulled out at a roundabout when I wasn't supposed to."

"I was sitting there for like five minutes. I was like, 'I need to go,'" Ramsey added, saying that when she pulled out, the examiner "slammed on the brakes."

Since then, Ramsey has purchased her first car, a red Fiat.

During a recent interview with British Vogue, Ramsey shared she adopted a dog named Skipper while filming the HBO series in Canada.

Adopted in August 2021, Skipper could be seen on the set of the apocalyptic drama where coshowrunner Craig Mazin referred to her as the series' "true showrunner."