Meet the Cast of ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kim Coates and More

From Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan to newcomers like Kim Coates and Dascha Polanco, In Touch rounds up what fans want to know about the key players of TWD: Dead City season 2.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan Smith

Negan is a survivor first introduced in season 6 of The Walking Dead. Prior to the outbreak, he was a former gym teacher who lost his wife, Lucille (Hilarie Burton), to cancer. Post apocalypse, he became the ruthless leader of The Saviors. His character has gradually shifted from villain to protagonist throughout his years with the franchise.

What You Know Him From: The Walking Dead, Grey’s Anatomy, Supernatural, Watchmen, The Boys, P.S. I Love You, The Postcard Killings and more.

Lauren Cohan as Maggie Rhee

Maggie Rhee is a survivor first introduced in season 2 of The Walking Dead. Prior to the outbreak, she lived with her father, Hershel Greene (Scott Wilson), and her sister, Beth (Emily Kinney) and others on her family farm. She went on to marry Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun), but he was killed by Negan shortly after she found out she was pregnant.

What You Know Her From: The Walking Dead, Supernatural, Whiskey Cavalier, The Vampire Diaries and more.

Logan Kim as Hershel Rhee

Hershel is the teenage son of Maggie and Glenn. He currently lives at The Bricks with his mother.

What You Know Him From: Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and Kung Fu Panda 4.

Gaius Charles as Perlie Armstrong

Perlie is a former marshal for the New Babylon Federation. He was promoted to colonel after he lied and claimed that he’d hunted down and killed Negan, who had been wanted for the murders of several men.

What You Know Him From: Friday Night Lights, Grey’s Anatomy, Taken (series) and more.

Mahina Napoleon as Ginny

Ginny is a teenage survivor who traveled with Negan after the death of her family. She became temporarily nonverbal from the trauma of seeing her father as a Walker but later regained her ability to speak.

What You Know Her From: NCIS: Hawai’i

Željko Ivanek as The Croat

The Croat, whose real name is Mile, is a former member of The Saviors and the leader of the Burazi. Prior to the apocalypse, he worked in alternative energy research. Following the outbreak, his wife and children were killed by another starving family of survivors.

What You Know Him From: Madam Secretary, True Blood, The Mob Doctor, Argo, 24, Seven Psychopaths and more.

Lisa Emery as The Dama

The Dama, whose real name is unknown, is a high-level authority figure among the survivors on the island. She worked closely with The Croat to get Negan to Manhattan and manipulated him into taking on a leadership role within their group. Prior to the outbreak, she was a renowned theatre critic.

What You Know Her From: Ozark, Jessica Jones, Law & Order and more.

Kim Coates as Bruegel

Bruegel is the leader of a gang of survivors who lives in an old museum in Manhattan. Described as a “slippery eel” by The Croat, he seemingly won the location from Christos and his group in one of his “games.” Bruegel appears to have an appreciation for art and the finer things in life, as well as a fun flair for sarcasm.

What You Know Him From: Sons of Anarchy, Prison Break, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Bad Blood, American Primeval and more.

Jasmin Walker as Charlie Byrd

Charlie Byrd was the governor of the New Babylon Federation.

What You Know Her From: Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Dear Edward and more.

Dascha Polanco as Lucia Narvaez

Major Lucia Narvaez was an officer working for the New Babylon Army. She traveled alongside Perlie, Governor Byrd and others to The Bricks to conscript soldiers from the group.

What You Know Her From: Orange Is the New Black, Gordita Chronicles, Poker Face, In the Heights and more.

Keir Gilchrist as Benjamin Pierce

Benjamin Pierce is a resident of the New Babylon Federation with a keen interest in history before the apocalypse and the journaling of current events.

What You Know Him From: It Follows, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Atypical, Love & Death and more.

Jake Weary as Christos

Christos is the leader of one of the gangs of survivors in Manhattan. He challenges Negan at the church and gets zapped with electricity by Lucille.

What You Know Him From: Animal Kingdom, It Chapter Two, As the World Turns, Pretty Little Liars, It Follows and more.