Marvel star’s nepo daughter, 11, received a hefty paycheck for her five-day stint on
Jon Bernthal is one of Hollywood’s best-paid actors, and now his 11-year-old nepo baby daughter is getting in on the action.
The tween landed a role in the Disney+ television special The Punisher: One Last Kill, based on the Marvel Comics character.
She stars alongside her father, and earned a very nice paycheck for her five-day stint. According to TMZ, Addie pocketed $4,326, which is weekly scale, along with one pro-rated date, bringing her total paycheck to $5,191.20.
The contract was signed in July 2025 by Bernthal’s wife, Erin, and assured Addie five days of work, while carrying on the nepo baby trend running rampant in Hollywood.
Addie, who plays Bernthal’s onscreen daughter Lisa, appears in one of the hallucinations that are plaguing Bernthal’s character, Frank Castle.
In a clip posted on MoviesUnofficial, the actor is seen sitting in a graveyard, propped up against a headstone, and reaching out frantically to the vision of his daughter waving him goodbye. He’s screaming, ‘No! No! No! No! Come back, baby!’
Jon Bernthal’s 11-year-old daughter, Addie, landed a role in the Disney+ television special The Punisher: One Last Kill alongside her father and earned more than $5k for five days of work; pictured at the screening event for the television special on May 11 in New York City
Addie appears as one of the hallucinations that are plaguing Bernthal’s character Frank Castle aka Punisher
Bernthal, 49, isn’t one to push his kids into show business but he will relent and let them choose on a case-by-case basis.
Bernthal and wife Erin also have two sons, Henry, 15, who appeared alongside Bernthal in the Hulu series The Bear, and Billy, 13, who is occupied with teen activities and hasn’t been bit by the acting bug as yet.
Nevertheless, Bernthal still had to be convinced to let Addie be in the gritty Punisher special, which premiered on Disney+ on May 12.
The project’s director, Reinaldo Marcus Green, said on The Brandon Davis Show last week that he cast Addie ‘almost against [Bernthal’s] will in some way.’
‘You know, we cast his daughter, which I think he was a little reluctant to do it, but I knew if he was going to be looking at his real daughter onscreen that was going to bring a different level of emotionality to it.
‘You could see Jon like, almost protector of all things. Like, don’t go there, man. But I was like, but are you sure? I think we should, you know. So somehow, he listened to me,’ Green added.
This isn’t Addie’s first acting venture, as she also played four-year-old Crystal in Bernthal’s 2021 film Small Engine Repair.
The actor initially played Frank Chase in The Punisher series, which ran on Netflix for two seasons between 2017-2019.
A clip shows the actor sitting in a graveyard, propped up against a headstone, and reaching out frantically to the vision of his daughter
Bernthal – pictured with Addie and members of the cast on May 11 – has said the role of Frank Castle ‘is in my bones’
The director Reinaldo Marcus Green – pictured with the star at the New York City screening on May 11 – said Bernthal was ‘a little reluctant to do it, but I knew if he was going to be looking at his real daughter onscreen that was going to bring a different level of emotionality to it’
Bernthal’s wife, Erin – pictured with the actor in 2022 – signed the Punisher contract for Addie in July 2025
The Walking Dead alum isn’t one to push his kids into show business but he will relent and let them choose on a case-by-case basis; pictured on Instagram in February of last year, L to R, with Addie and sons Billy and Henry
He reprised his iconic role in the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again, and now stars in and co-wrote this special with Green for the streaming service.
Bernthal, whose breakthrough role was in 2010 playing Rick Grimes best friend in The Walking Dead during the first two seasons, said ‘Frank Castle is in my bones.’
‘It’s a character that has had a deep, deep resonance with the comic book community, with the law enforcement community, the military community; these communities I care a deep, deep amount about,’ he told Forbes in 2021.
‘I looked at playing Frank as a real responsibility to those communities and if they are behind it and think that I got it right, it’s humbling and I’m full of gratitude for it.’