Samantha Morton Cast as Villain Alpha in Season 9 of "The Walking Dead" – Comic-Con
by Denise Petski
July 20, 2018


Samantha Morton (Fantastic Beasts) is joining Season 9 of "The Walking Dead" as a new series regular playing iconic villain Alpha, leader of the Whisperers.

Series creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman announced the casting Friday during the show’s panel at San Diego Comic-Con.




In the comics, the Whisperers are a mysterious group of survivors who disguise themselves with roamer skin to blend in and not get noticed, and in the series are formidable adversaries of Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his allies.

Morton’s casting confirms the Whisperers’ arrival in Season 9 and also puts to rest the much-speculated question of who would play Alpha in the series.

https://deadline.com/2018/07/the-walking-dead-samantha-morton-cast-villain-alpha-1202430530/

Samantha Morton didn't watch The Walking Dead before her new role "came out of the blue" (https://ew.com/tv/2019/02/13/walking-dead-samantha-morton-alpha-interviewhttps://thttps://ew.com/tv/2019/02/13/walking-dead-samantha-morton-alpha-interview)

"I have to say, I didn’t know anything other than I’d seen billboards for it," the actress says in her first interview about her AMC role. "I live on a farm in the middle of nowhere in England in a national park, so there’s no advertising allowed in the national park. You can’t put up posters there, but I’d seen them on the freeway and stuff like that. And I was a huge fan of Andrew Lincoln, and I knew that a lot of actors that I’d admired had gone to America to be in this show. So I knew about it, but on the farm, I didn’t have television or anything like that. I have a film projector, so I sit almost outside of society a little bit. So I hadn’t seen it, but I knew of it."