Melissa McBride is an American actress born in Lexington, Kentucky, best known for a single towering role: Carol Peletier on 'The Walking Dead'. Introduced as a meek, abused wife in the series' first season, Carol evolves over more than a decade into one of the show's most formidable and beloved survivors, a transformation widely praised as one of the best character arcs in television. McBride reprised the role in the spin-off series 'The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon', extending Carol's story well past the original show's ending. She remains inseparably identified with a character now considered a genre-television landmark. Read more