Many actors have appeared in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and The Walking Dead shared universe over the years, but you might have forgotten that some of these talented stars showed up in both franchises. The MCU and The Walking Dead are wildly different from each other, but both have become the biggest franchises in their respective genres. This has made both a powerful draw for many actors working in TV and Hollywood, which has meant that the MCU and The Walking Dead have, at times, shared performers.
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While it’s easy to remember some actors who’ve appeared in both the MCU and The Walking Dead (and its spinoffs), others are easily forgotten. The likes of Jon Bernthal, Danai Gurira, Lauren Ridloff and Michael Rooker all had important roles in The Walking Dead before crossing over for just as pivotal roles in the MCU, but not everyone has had this honor. Some familiar Marvel stars have had key roles in The Walking Dead, but several have had smaller or hidden roles that mean they’re more likely to go unnoticed.
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Maximiliano Hernández
Jasper Sitwell In The MCU (2011-2019) & Bob Lamson In The Walking Dead
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Maximiliano Hernández is one of the few actors shared by The Walking Dead and the MCU to appear in the latter first, as he made his MCU debut as SHIELD Agent Jasper Sitwell in 2012’s The Avengers. Hernández went on to appear as Sitwell in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame, while he also starred in Agents of SHIELD, which isn’t considered canon to the MCU. Sitwell was outed as a HYDRA loyalist in the MCU, and he appeared as a similar antagonist in The Walking Dead season 5.
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Maximiliano Hernández appeared as Grady Memorial Hospital police officer Bob Lamson in The Walking Dead season 5, episode 7, “Crossed,” and episode 8, “Coda.” Lamson was taken hostage by Rick Grimes’ group in hopes of trading him for Beth Greene, who had spent the first half of the season at Grady Memorial Hospital under the thumb of Dawn Lerner. Rick killed Lamson when he tried to escape, marking the same tragic fate as Jasper Sitwell in the MCU, who was killed by the Winter Soldier back in 2014.
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Kerry Condon
FRIDAY In The MCU (2015-2019) & Clara In The Walking Dead
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Irish actor Kerry Condon had a small but crucial role in The Walking Dead season 4, as she appeared as Clara, who tried to deliver Rick Grimes to her undead husband, and presented a moral dilemma to Rick throughout the season. Clara was a tragic and traumatized character in The Walking Dead, but her role in the MCU was wildly different, and easy to forget. Condon has never physically appeared in the MCU, but voiced Tony Stark’s replacement AI, FRIDAY, from Avengers: Age of Ultron to Avengers: Endgame.
Tony Stark installed FRIDAY into his suits after JARVIS was used to create part of the Vision’s consciousness, with Paul Bettany finally getting a physical role in the MCU. FRIDAY supported Iron Man through the Battle of Sokovia, the Avengers’ Civil War and the last stand against Thanos during Infinity War and Endgame’s various fights. This was a much longer-running role for Kerry Condon than her appearance in The Walking Dead, though, arguably, Clara has a more important role in The Walking Dead than FRIDAY did in the MCU.
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Colby Minifie
Robyn In Jessica Jones Season 1 (2015) & Virginia In Fear The Walking Dead
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Best known for her role as Ashley Barrett in The Boys and Gen V, Colby Minifie has also appeared both in the MCU and in The Walking Dead’s first spinoff, Fear the Walking Dead. Minifie starred as Robyn, Jessica Jones’ neighbor, in five episodes of Netflix’s Jessica Jones season 1, part of the Defenders Saga that has now been confirmed to be canon to the MCU. Robyn’s brother, Ruben, was forced to kill himself by Kilgrave, and Robyn blamed Jessica Jones before experiencing Kilgrave’s power for herself and learning the error of her ways.
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Charlie Cox |
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Krysten Ritter |
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Luke Cage |
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Mike Colter |
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Iron Fist |
2017-2018 |
Finn Jones |
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The Defenders |
2017 |
Cox, Ritter, Colter & Jones |
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The Punisher |
2017-2019 |
Jon Bernthal |
Colby Minifie’s role in Fear the Walking Dead was wildly different, as she played the primary antagonist for the second half of season 5 and the first half of season 6. Virginia was the former leader of the Pioneers and the guardian of their headquarters in Lawton, Oklahoma. She was an intelligent, cunning and ruthless villain who resorted to torture, hiring bounty hunters and other unhinged methods to get what she wanted. She formed a powerful rivalry with Morgan Jones and his group, which ultimately led to her demise.
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Michelle Hurd
DA Samantha Reyes In The MCU (2015-2016) & Jones In The Walking Dead: Dead City
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You’d be forgiven for forgetting Michelle Hurd’s roles both in the MCU and in The Walking Dead: Dead City. This spinoff caught up with Negan and Maggie in Manhattan as they search for Maggie’s kidnapped son, who has been abducted by a former Savior. Dead City’s first episode, “Old Acquaintances,” saw Michelle Hurd make her The Walking Dead universe debut, portraying Jones, the no-nonsense owner of the Easy Star Motor Inn, where Maggie drinks before reuniting with Negan. Hurd played a similarly ruthless role in the MCU’s Defenders Saga.
Michelle Hurd is Garrett Dillahunt’s real-world wife. Dillahunt portrayed John Dorie in Fear the Walking Dead between 2018 and 2021.
Michelle Hurd appeared in one episode of Jessica Jones and six episodes of Daredevil on Netflix as then-New York Country District Attorney Samantha Reyes. Throughout Daredevil season, Reyes made moves to hide her involvement in the Central Park Massacre, and hoped to use Frank Castle’s trial to further her political career, but she was ultimately assassinated by Ray Schoonover, who hoped to frame the Punisher following his release from prison. A new DA has recently been introduced to the MCU, Benjamin Hochberg, so Reyes’ legacy is well-and-truly over.
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Ross Marquand
Various Roles In The MCU (2018-Present) & Aaron In The Walking Dead
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Ross Marquand made his MCU debut in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War as the ghostly version of the Red Skull, since Hugo Weaving refused to reprise his role from 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. Since then, however, Marquand has taken on several other Marvel roles, primarily voice roles, making him one of the MCU’s most frequent actors. Marquand, known for his ability to impersonate others perfectly, has had roles in Endgame, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, What If…? and X-Men ’97, but hasn’t yet been given a role as prominent as his The Walking Dead character.
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Appearing in 70 episodes over six seasons of The Walking Dead, Ross Marquand’s Aaron is the longest-surviving Alexandrian and is one of the most important members of Rick Grimes’ group. Since he never appears physically in the MCU, however, it would be easy to not even realize that the voice of the Red Skull, Ultron and Professor X is the same voice that brought Rick to Alexandria back in 2015. At the end of The Walking Dead season 11, Aaron is one of Alexandria’s leaders alongside Father Gabriel, making him one of the franchise’s most memorable fixtures.
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Michael James Shaw
Corvus Glaive In The MCU (2018-2019) & Michael Mercer In The Walking Dead
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Similarly to Ross Marquand, Michael James Shaw never physically appears in the MCU, as his role in Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame was created entirely using motion capture. Shaw provides the motion capture and voice for Corvus Glaive, one of the Children of Thanos and a powerful member of the Black Order who attacks Vision on multiple occasions and is ultimately killed by the synthezoid. Shaw had a much larger and better-known role in The Walking Dead in season 11.
The Children of Thanos comprised Michael James Shaw’s Corvus Glaive, Terry Notary’s Cull Obsidian, Carrie Coon’s Proxima Midnight and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s Ebony Maw.
In The Walking Dead’s final season, Michael James Shaw portrayed Michael Mercer, a resident of the Commonwealth who serves as the leader of the Commonwealth Army. He trains Daryl and Rosita after the Coalition joins the Commonwealth, forms a romantic relationship with Princess, and starts to turn against Pamela Milton’s leadership after her son’s heinous crimes and Lance Hornsby’s actions come to light. Mercer ends up becoming the Deputy Governor of the Commonwealth, working under Ezekiel, completing his fantastic redemption, and providing him with a much more central role than that in the MCU.
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Danny Ramirez
Joaquín Torres’ Falcon In The MCU (2021-Present) & Eric In Tales Of The Walking Dead
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Shortly after being introduced to the MCU as Joaquín Torres, Danny Ramirez crossed over into The Walking Dead franchise, appearing in the finale of the anthology spinoff, Tales of the Walking Dead. In Tales of the Walking Dead episode 6, “La Doña,” Ramirez portrayed deuterantagonist Eric, who insists on staying in the home of the recently-deceased Doña Alma, despite Alma wanting them to leave before her demise, and Eric’s girlfriend, Daniella Pineda’s Idalia, feeling uncomfortable. Both Eric and Idalia subsequently meet their ends, but Ramirez’s MCU character has a much brighter future.
Danny Ramirez debuted in 2021’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as United States Air Force intelligence officer Joaquín Torres, who formed a close bond with Sam Wilson and eventually became the new Falcon, when Wilson took up the Captain America mantle. Torres officially became the Falcon in 2025’s Captain America: Brave New World, and has been teased to be returning in Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars as a member of the new Avengers team. This hasn’t yet been confirmed, but Danny Ramirez will likely have a long and fruitful career in the MCU.
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Matt Lintz
Bruno Carrelli In Ms. Marvel (2022) & Henry In The Walking Dead
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Brother of Madison Lintz, who portrayed Carol’s daughter, Sophia, in seasons 1 and 2 of The Walking Dead, Matt Lintz debuted later on as the adoptive son of Carol and Ezekiel, Henry. Just like Carol’s biological child, however, Henry met a tragic end, which saw him beheaded by Alpha and displayed on a pike alongside the likes of Tara and Enid in the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead season 9, “The Calm Before.” This was a truly emotional and heartbreaking moment, so there are hopes Matt Lintz won’t repeat this story in the MCU.
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Nick Gomez
Wrecker In She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (2022) & Tomas In The Walking Dead
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For many fans of The Walking Dead, it was quite a surprise to see Nick Gomez appear in 2022’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, and an even bigger surprise that, despite his initial appearance, he turned out to not be a villain. Gomez first showed up in She-Hulk as the Wrecker, a former member of the Wrecking Crew who stole Asgardian construction equipment to try and apprehend Jennifer Walters for Intelligencia. Following this altercation, the Wrecker stayed with Emil Blonsky at his retreat and admitted the error of his ways, but Gomez didn’t get this chance in The Walking Dead.
In Marvel Comics, the Wrecking Crew were introduced in 1974 and battled many heroes over the years, including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, Captain America, Doctor Strange, Namor and more.
Nick Gomez’s Tomas acted as the primary antagonist of The Walking Dead season 3, episode 2, “Sick,” after debuting in the season’s premiere, “Seed,” alongside other former prisoners of the prison Rick Grimes and his group want to call home. Tomas’ ego immediately comes to blows with that of Rick Grimes, and he makes many hostile moves to try and get Rick’s group to leave, but this just angers Rick. In an iconic moment, Rick Grimes slams his machete into Tomas’ head, ending his villainous career before he had the chance to become an ally.
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Rhys Coiro
Donny Blaze In She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (2022) & Jed In The Walking Dead
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Rhys Coiro first appeared in The Walking Dead season 9, episode 2, “The Bridge,” as Jed, a former Savior who was part of the team tasked with building the bridge that would connect the various communities. However, he was disgruntled with working conditions, restrictions placed upon the Saviors and several Savior murders at the hands of Oceansiders, and so became increasingly hostile. This led to a full-blown shoot-out with Carol, which forced Jed and the Saviors to leave, though he and his friends were murdered by Carol six years later.
Rhys Coiro’s wife, Kat Coiro, led She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’s directing team, directing six episodes and serving as executive producer on eight.
Jed was a dark and terrifying addition to The Walking Dead, while Rhys Coiro’s role in the MCU was far more lighthearted and entertaining. Coiro appeared in 2022’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law as Donny Blaze, a performer at Los Angeles’ Mystic Castle who had studied under the Masters of the Mystic Arts but was thrown out of Kamar-Taj. His magic, particularly that which thrust Madisynn into a demonic hellscape, caught the attention of Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme. Donny Blaze’s inclusion in the MCU spurred theories about Johnny Blaze’s debut as Ghost Rider, but this didn’t come to fruition.
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Aaron Stanford
John Allerdyce’s Pyro In Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) & Jim Brauer In Fear The Walking Dead
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Aaron Stanford put himself on the map in 2003 after debuting as a recast John Allerdyce, a.k.a. Pyro, in X2: X-Men United. He reprised this role as a member of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants in 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, and then finally brought his mutant character back to life in 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman’s first appearance in the MCU proper. It was great to see Pyro back in action, especially when battling Chris Evans’ Human Torch, but it was also great to see Stanford portray a more likable character in Fear the Walking Dead.
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Aaron Stanford’s Pryo Appearance |
Year |
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X2: X-Men United |
2003 |
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X-Men: The Last Stand |
2006 |
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Deadpool & Wolverine |
2024 |
Fear the Walking Dead season 4 was far from the most popular installment of the spinoff series, but Aaron Stanford’s role as Jim Brauer received praise. Jim was a skilled brewer who became a member of Morgan’s group alongside Sarah and Wendell, delivering boxes of supplies (and beer) to mile markers for travelers in need. Jim was kind and good-hearted, even to the end when he sacrificed himself to distract walkers, allowing his friends to escape, and his legacy continued as his beer helped counteract poisoning being experienced by the entire group in season 4’s finale, “… I Lose Myself.”
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Colman Domingo
Norman Osborn In Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2025) & Victor Strand In Fear The Walking Dead
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Two-time back-to-back Academy Award-nominee Colman Domingo is the newest star of The Walking Dead universe to join the MCU. Domingo received huge acclaim for his role as Victor Strand in Fear the Walking Dead, a role he played from the beginning in 2015 until the final season in 2023, and which saw him portray both hero and villain, acting as the primary antagonist of season 7. This translates perfectly into his new MCU role, as Norman Osborn in the animated Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man series is currently something of a hero, but likely won’t stay that way.
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