Norman Reedus

Norman Reedus began his career working at a Harley-Davidson shop in Venice, Los Angeles, California, while also contributing artwork to various shows as a painter, photographer, sculptor and video artist. He made his acting debut in the play Maps for Drowners at the Tiffany Theater on Sunset Boulevard.

Reedus made his major film debut as Jeremy in Mimic. In 1999, he played Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints. He later played Scud in Blade II and appeared as Nate, the boyfriend of Paige, in the television series Charmed. He also starred as Mac in Giovanni Rodriguez’s Red Canyon and reprised his role as Murphy MacManus in The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day in 2009.

In 2005, Reedus starred as the protagonist in Cigarette Burns, a John Carpenter-directed episode of Masters of Horror. He starred in the film Hello Herman, which opened nationwide and on demand on June 7, 2013. He also starred in the reality series Ride with Norman Reedus, which premiered in June 2016. Reedus later founded Bigbaldhead Productions, which entered into an overall deal with AMC.

In 2010, Reedus began playing Daryl Dixon in AMC’s The Walking Dead. The character was created specifically for Reedus after he auditioned for the role of Merle Dixon. Reedus continued in the role through the series’ 11th and final season and reprised the character as the lead of the spin-off series The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, which debuted in September 2023. Angela Kang serves as showrunner of the series.

In 2025, Reedus played Daniel Pine in the John Wick spin-off Ballerina alongside Keanu Reeves and Ana de Armas. In March 2024, Thunder Road Films, Dragonfly Films and Impossible Dream Entertainment announced a reimagining of The Boondock Saints, with Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery reprising their roles and serving as executive producers.

Reedus has modeled for Prada, Yohji Yamamoto, Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Durban, Levi’s, Lexus and Morgenthal Fredrics. In 2015, he appeared in a Cruelty Free International advertisement supporting an end to cosmetic testing on animals.

During the mid-1990s, Reedus appeared in music videos for Keith Richards’ “Wicked as It Seems,” Björk’s “Violently Happy,” the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Flat Top,” Ugly Kid Joe’s cover of “Cat’s in the Cradle,” R.E.M.’s “Strange Currencies” and Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees.” In 1999, he appeared in Tonic’s “Mean to Me.” He later appeared in music videos for Lady Gaga’s “Judas,” Tricky featuring Tirzah’s “Sun Down,” Hilary Duff’s “Gypsy Woman,” Sleater-Kinney’s “No Cities to Love” and Orville Peck’s “Curse of the Blackened Eye.”

As an artist, Reedus has worked as a painter, sculptor and photographer and has exhibited his artwork in galleries in New York City, Barcelona, Berlin and Frankfurt. He released the photography book The Sun’s Coming Up... Like a Big Bald Head on October 31, 2013. In September 2014, he announced the fan-art compilation Thanks for All the Niceness.

Reedus also has an extensive video game career. In 2014, he was announced as the star of Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s Silent Hills, but the game was canceled in 2015. He later reunited with Kojima for Death Stranding, released in 2019, playing protagonist Sam Porter Bridges. He reprised the role in Death Stranding 2: On the Beach in 2025. Reedus also reprised Daryl Dixon in the 2013 video game The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct and provided his likeness as Daryl for Fortnite Battle Royale, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.

He will next appear in Mark Heyman's Pendulum, set to hit theatres in December 2026, and an untitled film from Takashi Miike.