‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Adds Kim Coates To Season 2

EXCLUSIVE: Sons of Anarchy alum Kim Coates is joining the Season 2 cast of The Walking Dead: Dead City in a heavily recurring role opposite Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

He will play Bruegel, the leader of one of the fiercest gangs in New York City who is more manipulative and intelligent than we might have assumed.

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The series also stars Gaius Charles, Mahina Napoleon, Željko Ivanek, along with Jonathan Higginbotham, Trey Santiago-Hudson, and Charlie Solis.

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows Maggie, played by Cohan, and Negan, played by Morgan as they travel into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

Eli Jorné serves as showrunner and executive producer on the series, which is overseen by Scott M. Gimple, chief content officer of The Walking Dead Universe. Cohan and Morgan also serve as executive producers, along with Brian Bockrath.

Coates is best known for his role as biker bad boy Tig Trager in FX’s Sons of Anarchy, His recent credits include a starring role on Netflix series Bad Blood, Emmy-winning limited series Godless and White Plumbers for HBO. On the film side, he has appeared in Double Down South, True Memoirs of an International Assassin, Strange Weather, among many others. Coates is repped by Mainstay Entertainment and Paradigm.

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