“I just didn't want to get bored playing a character, and that's kind of the benefit of doing films; you've lived with a character for four or five months and that's it, and you walk away from that character and you feel like you told a story.”

American actor

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an American actor best known for playing Negan in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead. His work on the series, and on its spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City, has drawn critical praise. He became closely identified with the role of Negan, which he played from 2016 to 2022 in the original series and again from 2023 in the spin-off. His name is most often associated with that character and with the darker, more menacing side of the show’s drama.