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A nineteen-year-old survivor , Ellie is "mature beyond her years" as a result of the circumstances of her environment. Ellie was born sometime between and , by which time fungal pandemic had spread throughout America. As a result, she grew up in an oppressive military Quarantine Zone in Boston , Massachusetts, with little knowledge of the world before infection. Before she died, Ellie's mother, Anna, asked Marlene to watch Ellie. However, Ellie did not meet Marlene until she was 13 years old. According to Ellie, at one point in her life, she drove a car. Once she is safely inside the gates, she and the other survivors leave the bus. She is approached by a soldier who knows her. He warns her not to pull any of her "old stunts" once she has settled in and tells her that he can no longer look after her. Ellie asks that he take her with him, but he refuses, citing his responsibility to his own family.
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She is portrayed by Ashley Johnson through performance capture. In the first game, the character Joel is tasked with escorting Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States in an attempt to create a cure for an infection to which Ellie is immune. While players briefly assume control of Ellie for a portion of the game, the artificial intelligence primarily controls her actions, often assisting in combat by attacking or identifying enemies. Ellie reappeared as the sole playable character in the downloadable content prequel, The Last of Us: Left Behind , in which she spends time with her friend Riley. Ellie is also the main character in the comic book prequel, The Last of Us: American Dreams , wherein she befriends Riley and has her first encounter with the rebel group the Fireflies. Inspired by a mute character proposed for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves , Druckmann created her as a strong female character with a close relationship with Joel; throughout the first game's development , the relationship between Ellie and Joel was the central focus, with all other elements developed around it. Johnson inspired aspects of Ellie's personality, prompting Druckmann to make her more active in fighting hostile enemies. Following comparisons to actress Ellen Page , Naughty Dog redesigned her appearance to better reflect Johnson's personality and make her younger. For her performance in Part II , Johnson considered her own experiences with anxiety and researched the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder.