The Walking Dead spin-off, code-named Cobalt, has found its female lead.
Deadline reports that Kim Dickens, who recently impressed with her role as Detective Rhonda Boney in David Fincher’s Gone Girl, will join Sunshine‘s Cliff Curtis on the LA-set spin-off.
The site describes her character as looking “like the girl next door but has a darkness to her, a troubled past that will come back to haunt her.”
The spin-off “revolves around a divorced teacher (Curtis) and a guidance counselor (Dickens), who are working together and are in a relationship. The counselor has two children from a previous marriage, played by Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam Carey.”
Dickens was also superb on HBO’s Deadwood as brothel owner Joanie Stubbs.
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