Eighteen-year-old up-and-comer Nicola Peltz (“Bates Motel”) is set to join Mark Wahlberg (Ted) in producer and director Michael Bay’s Transformers 4. Peltz will play Wahlberg’s daughter, a high school senior dating biker Brenton Thwaites (Oculus).

According to THR, Peltz beat out stunner Gabriella Wilde (The Three Musketeers), Alex Frnka (“The Inbetweeners”), Abbie Cornish’s sister and Andie MacDowell’s daughter. She and Thwaites will reportedly be locked in for three sequels.

Peltz big break came in 2010 when she was cast by M. Night Shyamalan in his much maligned fam-fantasy The Last Airbender. She will next be seen as Norman Bates’ love interest in A&E’s upcoming Psycho prequel series “Bates Motel.”

Transformers 4 will pick up four years after the events of Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon. Shooting will begin in the spring with the slated release date of June 27, 2014.