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The Walking Dead: Dead City Adds Animal Kingdom’s Jake Weary

Jake Weary joins ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ (Photo Credit: AMC)

Animal Kingdom‘s Jake Weary and Orange is the New Black‘s Dascha Polanco have joined the season two cast of AMC’s The Walking Dead: Dead City. Atypical‘s Keir Gilchrist and Law & Order: SVU‘s Pooya Mohseni are also on board the new season.

AMC didn’t release character descriptions but did say Gilchrist is playing Benjamin Pierce, Polanco is Major Lucia Narvaez, Weary will play Christos, and Mohseni is Roksana. The newcomers join returning series stars Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Gaius Charles, and Željko Ivanek.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows fan-favorite characters Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) as they travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror,” reads AMC’s synopsis. “In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.”

This post was last modified on April 9, 2025 9:13 pm

Rebecca Murray: Journalist covering the entertainment industry for 23+ years, including 13 years as the first writer for About.com's Hollywood Movies site. Member of the Critics Choice Association (Film & TV Branches), Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and Past President of the San Diego Film Critics Society.
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