Tony Nominee Lauren Ridloff Joins The Walking Dead For Season 9Posted by Wilson Morales
July 16, 2018
Source: EW
According to Entertainment Weekly, actress Lauren Ridloff, who is deaf and made her acting debut with on Broadway’s Children of a Lesser God, will appear in Season 9 of AMC’s The Walking Dead.
Ridloff will play Connie, a deaf survivor who uses her senses to perceive potential conflict. A former Miss Deaf America, Ridloff will be the first deaf actor on the zombi-apocalypse series as it gears up for its ninth season.
According to the site, there is indeed a Connie in The Walking Dead comic, who arrives in issue 127, right at the point the TV adaptation has just reached, complete with a time-jump. In the comic, Connie is part of a new group of survivors led by a character named Magna that is brought back to live in Alexandria. It would make sense that Ridloff is playing the TV version of that Connie, although the comic version is not deaf.
In playing Sarah Norman in the Kenny Leon-directed revival, Ridloff received a 2018 Tony nomination in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category for her role in Children of a Lesser God
