According to Deadline, Isha Blaaker (Red Riding Hoods, The Flight Attendant) has joined Fear the Walking Dead in a recurring role in the current and final season. Blaaker will play a character named Frank. No other details about the character have been revealed.
The current eighth season features a seven-year time jump from the end of the seventh season. Season seven ends with Morgan, played by Lennie James (Line of Duty, Save Me), and Madison, played by Kim Dickens (Deadwood, Sons of Anarchy), unable to rescue Mo from Padre like they planned. Morgan, Madison, and the rest of the group must endure Padre’s rule on the island. Morgan’s daughter, Mo, is tasked with reigniting the belief in a better world.
Fear the Walking Dead also stars Austin Amelio (The Walking Dead, Everybody Wants Some!!), Rubén Blades (Predator 2, Color of Night), Danay García (Prison Break, Boost), Colman Domingo (Candyman, Zola), Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg, Two and a Half Men), Christine Evangelista (The Arrangement, Bleed for This), and Karen David (Galavant, Once Upon a Time).
The series is produced by AMC Studios and executive produced by showrunners Ian Goldberg (Eli, Dead of Summer) and Andrew Chambliss (Dollhouse, Once Upon a Time) along with Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, The Abyss), David Alpert (American Ultra, Renfield), Robert Kirkman (Outcast, Invincible), and Greg Nicotero (The Hills Have Eyes, Creepshow).
The first half of the eighth and final season of Fear the Walking Dead aired on AMC and AMC+ on May 14 at 9 PM AT/PT and the second half will debut later this year. Season one first aired on AMC on August 23, 2015.
Blaaker can currently be seen on season two of Run the World as Philip on Starz with Corbin Reid (Valor, Blair Witch), Amber Stevens West (Ghosted, Happy Together), and Bresha Webb (Marlon, Meet the Blacks). He will star in Ava DuVernay’s (When They See Us, Queen Sugar) film adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s (The Warmth of Other Suns, Caste) Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents with Finn Wittrock (American Horror Story, Luckiest Girl Alive), Victoria Pedretti (The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor), Aunjanue Ellis (Quantico, The Mentalist), Nick Offerman (The Last of Us, Parks and Recreation), and Niecy Nash (Scream 4, Claws).