David Morrissey To Play The Governor On AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ As New Regular
David Morrissey (State Of Play) has landed one of the most anticipated roles on AMC’s The Walking Dead. The British actor is set to join the megahit zombie drama as a new series regular in Season 3, playing The Governor, a popular character from Robert Kirkman’s graphic novel that serves as the basis for the AMC series. The Governor is the leader of Woodbury, a small settlement of survivors, and becomes the chief antagonist for The Walking Dead‘s lead Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his group. Morrissey, repped by The Collective and Troika in the UK, recently wrapped Welcome to the Punch opposite James McAvoy and Mark Strong.
Aw, I was hoping they would have picked Tom Savini. Now that would have been awesome.
That’s a great suggestion!
Quality actor! He’ll be amazing!
Now let’s hear something about Michonne. TV doesn’t have enough strong samurai sword wielding African American women!
The dumb asses rewrote and killed Michonne off in season one.
Uh, did you even watch season one ?
wow – don’t you look like a dumb@$$ now…
Davis Morrissey is SO talented! What a great choice!!! Cant wait to see this!
Guess this confirms no Prison until the end of the season.
Aisha Tyler needs to be Michonne. She even confessed to being a huge fan on Talking Dead. Good luck to David playing The Governor. Those are some vet big shoes to fill.
It’s cool they’ll introduce the Governor storyline, but I hope they don’t cut Rick’s hand off. Robert Kirkman even said he regretted making that decision in the comic, so hopefully he corrects that.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo – I hadn’t got that far yet!!!!!!!!!!!!! Damn.
Really hope you’re kidding.
I know, right? I’m only on Book 3 of the Graphic Novel. I hate Spoilers!!! lol.
Crazy Chris the “Nightmare Man” from Scared Straight 99 would have made a great Governor.
I had been hoping they would do the role of the governor slightly different in the show and it would be Merle, but glad they are doing the storyline either way.