“I love playing a villain. I think that there's something freeing about that, and it's a different kind of challenge.”

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.