‘Percy Jackson’ Season 2 Casts Andra Day as Athena

Andra Day is joining the Season 2 cast of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” as Athena.

Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, is one of the most important Olympian characters in Rick Riordan’s “Percy Jackson” books, being the mother of Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries), Percy’s (Walker Scobell) close friend and fellow demigod.

Day made her acting debut in Lee Daniels’ 2021 biopic “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” in which she played the title role. The film earned her a Golden Globe for best drama actress and a Grammy for best soundtrack as well as a lead actress Oscar nomination. Her other screen credits include lead roles in the 2024 films “Exhibiting Forgiveness” and “The Deliverance,” with the latter also being directed by Daniels. Before playing Billie Holliday, she was best known for her work as an R&B singer. Her discography includes the albums “Cheers to the Fall,” released in 2015, and “Cassandra (Cherith),” released in 2024.

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;Percy Jackson” introduced Percy as a 12-year-old modern demigod who’s just coming to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when his new friends Annabeth and Grover (Aryan Simhadri) join him on a trek across America to stop the impending war between the gods. Per the official logline, in Season 2, Percy “returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.”

News of Day’s casting was announced during a virtual panel at Disney’s D23 Expo in Brazil before being posted to social media. See a video of Day addressing “Percy Jackson” fans below.

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