AMC has found their male lead for the upcoming The Walking Dead companion series, which is set during the same zombie apocalypse seen in the ongoing primary series but in a different location.

Starring in the series, which is currently untitled and going by the code name Cobalt, will be Cliff Curtis, who will play a divorced teacher who tries hard to be good to everyone in his life. He joins the first two recently cast actors, Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm), who play the children of the not-yet-cast female lead.

Curtis is an excellent actor known from many recognizable roles, including in Three Kings, Blow, Training Day, Whale Rider, The Fountain, Sunshine, Live Free or Die Hard, and TV series Trauma, Missing, and most recently, Gang Related.

[Source: Deadline]