Who is The Boys actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan?

WALKING Dead star Jeffrey Dean Morgan is joining the cast of The Boys in a recurring role.

Morgan will appear on and off throughout season four, although his role in the show has not been announced.

2

Who is Jeffrey Dean Morgan?

Jeffrey Dean Morgan started acting in 1991, taking on his breakout role of Sharkey in the film Uncaged.

Morgan previously starred in several episodes of Supernatural alongside Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles and appeared in The Walking Dead from 2016 to 2022.

His wife, Hilarie Burton also appeared alongside Morgan in two episodes of The Walking Dead.

Morgan and Burton got married in 2019, a decade after they met on a blind date.

READ MORE ON THE WALKING DEAD

The couple was set up by Morgan's Supernatural co-star Ackles, whose wife Danneel Harris had met Burton on the set of One Tree Hill.

Ackles shared the story with PEOPLE, saying Burton was in Los Angeles visiting him and Harris when they went to an Irish pub one night when he said he convinced Morgan to join the three of them for drinks.

"And there we were sitting, the three of us," Ackles said. "I convinced [Morgan] to come down the street and meet us for a drink, and you did.

"And you pulled up in your Harley, and we were sitting there in the front window, and Hilarie sees this guy get off a bike in slow-motion and take his helmet off and throw his hair [around]. It was all very surreal.

Most read in Celebrity

"You walked in, the two of you locked eyes, and that was pretty much the rest of the evening."

After ten years together, Morgan and Burton got married in New York in 2019 and now have two children together:  Augustus, 12, and daughter George Virginia, 4.

When did Jeffrey Dean Morgan join The Boys?

Morgan has been cast in the fourth season of The Boys, which is currently in the process of filming.

His role on the show has so far been kept a secret, but will provide a reunion for Morgan and Ackles, who joined the show in season three.

Morgan will also be reunited with Supernatural creator and the current showrunner for The Boys, Eric Kripke.

In an interview with E! News, Kripke spoke about recruiting Morgan to appear on The Boys.

"Jeffrey Dean Morgan is a superfan of the show, so he and I are talking," Kripke said in June 2022.

"We're trying to figure out something for season four. Nothing finalized yet, but he and I are chatting and e-mailing and seeing it we can make it work with his busy schedule. So, stay tuned on that."

Kripke had originally asked Morgan if he would consider coming on the show in January 2020, and in a tweet, he wrote to Morgan:  "I'll make you a deal. Season 3. I'll write it, and if you're avail, come shoot it!"

Morgan responded, writing: In a heartbeat!"

However, his busy schedule didn't allow him to sign on for season three of The Boys.

"Sad for me, happy for him: He's currently the lead, along with Lauren Cohan, on the Walking Dead spin-off," Kripke told Entertainment Weekly in May.

"So, schedule-wise, I don't know. We might still remain star-crossed, unfortunately, because I did ask. We had a role come up, and my first question was, 'Well, is Jeffrey available?'"

Kripke didn't have high hopes given Morgan's packed schedule, but Morgan responded to the interview on Twitter, writing:  "I'll make it work."

2

What other shows has Jeffrey Dean Morgan starred in?

Although Morgan is best known for his villainous role on The Walking Dead, his acting reach has extended across other wide-ranging films and TV shows.

Early on in his acting career, Morgan made several small appearance in TV shows including Extreme (1995), The Burning Zone (1996), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2003).

He starred as William in the popular 2007 movie P.S. I Love You alongside Gerard Butler and Hilary Swank and went on to appear in Grey's Anatomy as Denny Duquette, Izzie Stevens' love interest (played by Katherine Heigl) from 2006 to 2009.

His role on Grey's Anatomy was the one role he's played that he didn't want to come to an end, and he still has not gotten over Denny's death on the show.

“‘Grey’s Anatomy’ I knew was something special,” Morgan said on The Today Show in 2021. “That’s the one time that I saw my death coming and I was trying everything I could do to get out of that death.”

Read More on The US Sun

Read More on The US Sun

He said he begged the writers to let him stay on the show, and he was devastated when it came time for his character to die.

“It was a grim day, let me tell you,” he said of filming his final scene. “A dark, grim day. I’m still not over it. It broke my heart to leave that show.”