Australian actress Alycia Debnam-Carey is set to star in AMC’s “Cobalt,” the eagerly anticipated spinoff series to its ratings juggernaut “The Walking Dead.” She joins a cast that so far includes Cliff Curtis (Colombiana) and Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince).

Written by “Walking Dead” creator Robert Kirkman and Dave Erickson, who serves as showrunner, the spinoff takes place during the very same zombie apocalypse of the original “Walking Dead,” but is set in an entirely different location. The show will center on two families.

Based on character descriptions leaked in September, Debnam-Carey plays Ashley Tompkins, the smart and ambitious daughter of guidance counselor and single mom Nany Tompkins and sister to junkie fuck-up Nick Tompkins (Dillana).

Debnam-Carey made her American feature film debut in the underrated disaster flick Into the Storm. She also co-stars alongside Jennifer Carpenter in the upcoming demonic frightener The Devil’s Hand.