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NO SAFE HARBOUR ™ SEASON TWO ® ® PRESS™ KIT 01 CONTENTS 03 SYNOPSIS 04 CAST & CHARACTERS 23 PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES 28 INTERVIEW: DAVE ERICKSON EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & SHOWRUNNER 31 PRODUCTION CREDITS ® ™ SYNOPSIS Last season, Fear the Walking Dead explored a blended family who watched a burning, dead city as they traversed a devastated Los Angeles. In season two, the group aboard the ‘Abigail’ is unaware of the true breadth and depth of the apocalypse that surrounds them; they assume there is still a chance that some city, state, or nation might be unaffected - some place that the Infection has not reached. But as Operation Cobalt goes into full effect, the military bombs the Southland to cleanse it of the Infected, driving the Dead toward the sea. As Madison, Travis, Daniel, and their grieving families head for ports unknown, they will discover that the water may be no safer than land. ® ™ 03 CAST & CHARACTERS ® ™ 04 MADISON CLARK In many ways, the Madison of season two is the same woman we met in the pilot - a leader, a moral compass - but in a whole new devastated, apocalyptic world. As the season plays out, Madison will be faced with a world that often has no room for empathy or compassion. Forced to navigate a deceptive and manipulative chart of personalities, Madison’s success in this new world is predicated on understanding that, at the end of the world, lending a helping hand can often endanger those you love. She may maintain her maternal ferocity, but the apocalypse will force her to make decisions and sacrifices that could break even the strongest people. ® ™ 05 KIM DICKENS Madison Kim Dickens has proven herself to be a versatile actress portraying a vast array of complex and powerful characters throughout her career in television and film. Dickens was born in Huntsville, Alabama and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in communication. Soon after graduation, she moved to New York City to continue her studies at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. She later graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Art’s two-year performing arts conservatory in New York City. In 2001, Dickens starred opposite Gabriel Mann in Allison Anders’s The Things Behind the Sun. Dickens’s role garnered her recognition with a 2002 Independent Spirit Award nomination. Dickens played a local rock singer in Florida whose band became increasingly popular, largely because of a controversial song. From 2004 to 2006, Dickens was seen in HBO’s Golden Globe Award Winning drama series Deadwood. Starring Timothy Olyphant, the show was set in the late 1800s and revolved around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota, which was fraught with corruption and crime. Dickens played the depressed and self-loathing Joanie Stubbs who, aside from being a madam, was Cy Tolliver’s (Powers Boothe) former lover. In 2005, Dickens co-starred in the Golden Globe Award Nominated satirical comedy Thank You for Not Smoking. Dickens played Nick Naylor’s (Aaron Eckhart) disgruntled ex-wife, who lobbies for the Academy of Tobacco Studios. From 2006 to 2009, Dickens had a guest arc in ABC’s Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning series Lost. Dickens played a love interest to James “Sawyer” Ford (Josh Holloway). ® ™ 06 From 2008 to 2009, Dickens co-starred became the No. 1 rated cable series Dickens recently completed production in NBC’s smash hit Friday Night Lights, premiere on record with 10.1 million on Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s which depicted the trials and tribulations viewers. The series also smashed records Home for Peculiar Children. The 20th of a small-town Texas football team, their internationally, premiering across more Century Fox film is an adaptation of the friends, family and coaching staff. Dickens than 125 territories for AMC Global, the classic novel and stars Eva Green, Asa played hair stylist Shelby Saracen, the largest ever day-and-date release for a Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Allison Janney mother of Matt Saracen’s (Zach Gilford). US series. Fear the Walking Dead didn’t and Samuel L. Jackson. Based on the disappoint and set global ratings records Ransom Riggs novel, the film follows a In 2009, she appeared in John Lee for AMC. By the season finale, Fear the teenager who finds himself transported Hancock’s Oscar® nominated The Blind Walking Dead averaged 11.2 million to an island where he must help protect Side. Dickens portrayed an insightful viewers, clocking in as the highest-rated a group of orphans with special powers. high school teacher who fights to allow first season in cable history. The film is set for release in December Michael (Quinton Aaron) into the school. of 2016. Vanity Fair writer Richard Lawson From 2010 to 2013, Dickens co-starred explained he was “intrigued by the terrible Dickens resides in Los Angeles. in HBO’s award winning drama Tremé. unfolding of doomsday, and further drawn Created by David Simon, the series in by the show’s stellar cast.” He went on focused on life after Hurricane Katrina to describe Dickens as “one of the most as the residents of New Orleans tried reliably appealing actors working today.” to rebuild their lives, their homes and their unique culture in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters in the USA. Dickens portrayed a struggling chef, Janette Desautel, who tries to keep her restaurant open while waiting to pay for her losses. Dickens along with the cast of Tremé was nominated for a 2014 Primetime Emmy® Award in the “Outstanding Miniseries” category. In 2014, Dickens co-starred in David Fincher’s critically-acclaimed psychological thriller Gone Girl, opposite Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike. Based on the bestselling novel by Gillian Flynn, the story follows a man’s quest to find his missing wife. Dickens played the tough, yet sometimes sympathetic Detective Rhonda Boney. The thriller was released by 20th Century Fox. In 2015, Dickens became an Ambassador for the National Women’s History Museum. The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM), founded in 1996, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of women and integrating this rich heritage fully into our nation’s history. Dickens currently stars in AMC’s smash hit Fear the Walking Dead, the companion series to The Walking Dead. This critically- acclaimed series, set in Los Angeles, ® ™ 07 TRAVIS MANAWA The weight of killing his ex-wife weighs on Travis as he tries to care for his son, who just lost his mother. Daniel urges Travis to see what he did as a mercy that not everyone is afforded in the apocalypse - but Travis is haunted, not just by the woman he killed but also the by the danger of becoming divorced from his humanity. He promised Liza that he would protect their son at all costs - but will the promise to protect one compromise his ability to defend many? ® ™ 08 CLIFF CURTIS TRAVIS A successful film and television actor with a varied body of work, Cliff Curtis encompasses a wide range of compelling performances spanning more than two decades. Cliff Curtis was born in Rotorua, New Zealand and is of Maori descent. He attended the New Zealand Drama School, and then the Teatro Dmitri Scoula in Switzerland. After returning to New Zealand from Europe, his first-ever role was in the Academy Award-winning film, The Piano. Subsequent roles in New Zealand include: the camp melodrama Desperate Remedies; the grueling urban drama Once Were Warriors; and the lighthearted comedy Jubilee. In Hollywood, Curtis has played an array of diverse roles and ethnicities ranging from a Colombian in Blow opposite Johnny Depp, an Arab in Three Kings opposite George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, and a Latino in Training Day opposite Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. Other film credits include: The Insider alongside Al Pacino and Russell Crowe; Runaway Jury alongside John Cusack; Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead; and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender. Curtis also played the role of Paikea’s father Porourangi in Whale Rider. ® ™ 09 In 2007, Curtis turned his hand to producing and among his credits are Taika Waititi’s debut feature, the geek comedy Eagle vs. Shark starring Jermaine Clement, and later another Waititi feature, Boy, which became the highest grossing local film in New Zealand history. On television, Curtis appeared in Fox’s Gang Related as Javier Acosta and as FBI Agent Dax Miller on ABC’s Missing. Curtis’s most recent releases include the Sony feature Risen, the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection, opposite Joseph Fiennes, and the upcoming The Dark Horse, an inspirational true story which Curtis also executive produced. In The Dark Horse, directed by James Napier Robertson, Curtis plays Maori chess prodigy Genesis Pontini, who coached underprivileged, at-risk youth while suffering from bipolar disorder. The Dark Horse won the Audience Best Picture Award at the San Francisco Film Festival and the Seattle Film Festival, as well as Best Actor for Curtis at the Seattle Film Festival. ® ™ 10 NICK CLARK The new world surrounds and devours, yet it provides a strange comfort and fascination for Nick, who has found a sort of confidence and balance when we meet up with him in season two. Everyone is hell bent on survival, but Nick seems to embrace the chaos - a perfect child of the apocalypse. His moment of clarity in the finale of season one will be put to work in season two. ® ™ 11 FRANK DILLANE Nick Frank Dillane trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), graduating in 2013. As a child he played Christopher Henderson in Welcome to Sarajevo, directed by Michael Winterbottom (Channel 4/Miramax/Dragon Pictures).