AMC Casts Andrew Lincoln As Rick Grimes In The Walking Dead

THR has broken the news that Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, The Teachers) had landed the lead role of Rick Grimes in AMC’s post-zombie apocalypse TV series The Walking Dead, which will be premiering later this year.

“Andrew Lincoln, wow–what an amazing find this guy is,” Walking Dead comic creator Robert Kirkman told THR. “Writing Rick Grimes month after month in the comic series, I had no idea he was an actual living breathing human being and yet here he is. I couldn’t be more thrilled with how this show is coming together.”