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Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an American actor. He is best known for playing the character Negan in the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2016–2022) and its spin-off The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023–present), for both of which he has received critical acclaim.
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entertainment · American actor (born 1966) · actor · television actor · film actor · also Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Morgan
Born 22 April 1966 · Q342665
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
Morgan hosted the reality show Destination X
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2024· 1 entry
Morgan was credited as a main cast member, portraying "Joe Kessler", revealed in an episode to be a hallucination/alter ego of Billy Butcher
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2019· 1 entry
Morgan and Burton were married, although many had erroneously speculated they had already been married since 2014
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2018· 1 entry
Eight years later, Morgan and Burton's daughter was born
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded MTV Movie Award for Best Villain for The Walking Dead (2017).
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Morgan drove the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport Pace Car to lead the starting field of the 101st Indianapolis 500
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2016· 1 entry
Serving as the primary antagonist of the seventh and eighth seasons and later an anti-hero since the ninth season
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2015· 4 entries
Morgan took on the role of freelance investigator Jason Crouse, opposite Julianna Margulies, in the CBS TV series The Good Wife, until that series concluded in the spring of 2016
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Morgan portrayed Deaf Smith in Texas Rising, a five-part mini-series which aired on the History Channel
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Morgan became a regular cast member for season 2 of the CBS sci-fi drama Extant
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Had a lead role in Jonás Cuarón's thriller film Desierto
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2014· 1 entry
Morgan played Charlie Peters, the owner of the Cake House, in the season finale of Shameless
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2009· 2 entries
Morgan portrayed The Comedian, a cigar-chomping antihero in Watchmen, based on Alan Moore's graphic novel
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Morgan started a relationship with actress Hilarie Burton after being set up on a blind date through his Supernatural co-star Jensen Ackles and Ackles's wife, Danneel, with whom Burton co-starred on One Tree Hill
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2007· 3 entries
Morgan was cast in a proposed project by Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes
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Morgan was briefly engaged to his former Weeds co-star Mary-Louise Parker; their engagement ended in April 2008
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Morgan starred in the film The Accidental Husband, which finished filming in March 2007 and was released on DVD in 2009
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2005· 1 entry
And 2006, Morgan simultaneously appeared in three television series: in the CW series Supernatural as John Winchester, in a recurring role on ABC's Grey's Anatomy as heart transplant patient Denny Duquette, and as Judah
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1984· 1 entry
Morgan graduated from Lake Washington High School, where he was captain of the basketball team
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1966· 1 entry
Born 1966-04-22.
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