Dan Fogler and Eleanor Matsuura Join THE WALKING DEAD Season 9

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Dan Fogler, best known for his role as Jacob Kowalski in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the forthcoming sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, has signed on for a role in season nine of The Walking Dead.

Additionally, Eleanor Matsuura (already an AMC veteran with her role as Baron Chau on Into the Badlands) is also joining THE WALKING DEAD cast for season nine, THR has confirmed. She will play Yumiko, a SURVIVOR of the zombie apocalypse who appears in the comic books. In Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard's source material, Yumiko is part of a group that encounters Rick Grimes (Lincoln) and the Alexandria Safe-Zone some years after All-Out War, serving as one of a few new points of view into the story's status quo following the significant time jump.

The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series developed by Frank Darabontfor AMC that is based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. Andrew Lincoln plays the show's lead character, sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma discovering a world overrun by zombies, commonly referred to as "walkers". Grimes reunites with his family and becomes the leader of a group he forms with other survivors. Together they struggle to survive and adapt in a post-apocalyptic world filled with walkers and opposing groups of survivors, who are often more dangerous than the walkers themselves. Much of the series takes place in and around Atlanta, Georgia, and later Alexandria, Virginia.

The series premiered in the United States on October 31, 2010, exclusively shown on cable television channel AMC and internationally on FOX International Channels. As a result of very favorable Nielsen ratings that rank the show unprecedentedly high for a cable series, AMC has renewed the series each year. Beginning with its third season, THE WALKING DEAD has attracted the most 18 to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast television series. Its eighth season debuted on October 22, 2017, and it has been renewed for a ninth season to debut in October 2018. An AMC spin-off series, Fear the Walking Dead, debuted on August 23, 2015.

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