The Walking Dead Former Cast: Where Are They Now?
5. Michael Rooker
On The Walking Dead: Rooker appeared in only three episodes across the show's first two seasons as Merle Dixon before taking on a more prominent role in the main cast for its third, though the character only lasted long enough to be redeemed, killed and left to turn by The Governor and ultimately put down by Daryl before the season ended.
What He's Been Up To: After leaving TWD, Rooker reunited with his buddy James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy. Fortunately, fans of the actor and the MCU can expect to see him again as Yondu when the sequel hits theaters in 2017.
On top of that, he's starring alongside Ian McShane and fellow MCU star Anthony Mackie in Bolden!, the biopic of Jazz royalty Buddy Bolden that arrives next month, and also has a role in next year's Gunn-penned horror film The Belko Experiment, which follows what happens when the employees of a fictional company are trapped together and ordered to kill or be killed.