20 TV Villain Performances That Are Practically Flawless
14. Samantha Morton - Alpha (The Walking Dead)
The Walking Dead has been running for nearly eleven full seasons as of this writing, and in all that time there have been dozens of great villains to grace the screen. But the best by an absolute landslide has to be Samantha Morton's Alpha.
As the leader of the face-wearing Whisperers, Alpha is portrayed by Morton as an animalistic wanderer who finds solace in the apocalypse by walking amongst the undead and spreading her ideology wherever she roams.
Softly spoken with a thick Southern drawl, Morton makes Alpha every bit as terrifying as her masked army implies, spending her days abusing her daughter, beheading her enemies, and brutally slaying anyone who dares to even remotely defy her.
Morton shows a thin layer of feeling under Alpha's unflappable villainy, but ultimately sells the character as a vessel for the worst of a dead world. The results are skin-crawling, and helped make The Walking Dead's latest years its best ever.