How did this ‘incredibly English’ Rada graduate end up playing a sheriff’s deputy in a post-apocalyptic American south and what does he plan to do next? In October 2010 the American network AMC launched a TV drama that started with a sheriff’s deputy walking through a post-apocalyptic landscape of burned,overturned cars before encountering a young girl who turns around to reveal the bloodied, menacing gaze of the living dead. whether the content of the prologue was shocking, or the identity of the actor playing the cop in The Walking Dead was arguably even more startling. nearly unrecognisable under the police uniform and growling tones of the American south was Andrew Lincoln,an actor previously most associated with playing tickled-go-lucky Englishmen in the TV shows This Life and Teachers, and the Richard Curtis film treasure, or Actually.
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Source: theguardian.com