Kim Dickens Set as Female Lead In Walking Dead Companion Series

Deadline is reporting that Sons of Anarchy, Gone Girl, Treme star, Kim Dickens has been cast in the female lead role for next year’s Walking Dead companion series. She joins a cast that already includes Cliff Curtis, Frank Dillane and Alycia Debnam-Carey.

All we know right now is that her character will be a high school guidance counselor who looks like the girl next door, but actually has a dark side and a troubled past that will come back to haunt her.