Who is Norman Reedus?
Norman Reedus is best-known for his role as gruff archer Daryl Dixon on The Walking Dead.
Unlike most of the series’ characters, Daryl does not appear in the original Walking Dead graphic novels.
He was added to the show by creator Frank Darabont specifically for Reedus, who had begged for a part.
Daryl was originally introduced as an aloof and volatile outsider, but has grown into one of the series’ main protagonists and fan favourites.
Reedus has called his time on the show “a blessing”.
“To have several years [with a character], all the little things you do add up and its a blessing to have that much time,” he told Sky News Sunrise earlier this morning.
His appearance on the show went viral after a producer dragged him and Walking Dead executive producer Greg Nicotero off the set.
Like his character Reedus, who was born in Hollywood but grew up in Los angeles, is a motorcycle enthusiast.
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Norman Reedus is an American actor and model
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Daryl Dixon was written specifically for Norman Reedus by The Walking Dead’s creator
His big break strangely came after he was fired from his job at a Harley Davidson shop.
“I went to a party, I was working at a motorcycle shop in Los Angeles. Went to work, got into a fight, got fired,” he explained.
“A friend of mine took me out to a party that night and I drank way too much and started yelling at a bunch of people, and then somebody asked me to be in a play.”
After the play, Reedus moved into acting full time. His first film was in the 1996 horror thriller Mimic, directed by Guillermo del Torro.
Since then he has appeared in films such as The Boondock Saints, Red Canyon, and Blade II.
The 48-year-old has modelled for designers including Prada and Levis in the 1990s, and is also a painter, sculptor and photographer.
His art works have been displayed in galleries in New York, Berlin and Frankfurt and in 2013 he released a photography book titled The Sun’s Coming Up… Like A Big Bald Head.
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Reedus is an accomplished photographer, and is seen here in front of one of his art works.
Does Norman Reedus have a wife or a son?
Reedus was in a five-year-long relationship with supermodel Helena Christensen, whom he met in 1998 through a mutual friend, photographer Yelena Yemchuk.
A year later, the couple welcomed a son, Mingus, now 17 years old.
They parted ways in 2003, but remain friends.
“She’s a really cool girl,” Reedus told The New York post. “She’s really smart and we laugh at the same crap.”
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Norman Reedus was in a five-year relationship with supermodel Helena Christensen
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Reedus shares a son, Mingus, with Christensen
Last month Reedus was pictured with Diane Kruger, who last year announced her split from long-term boyfriend Joshua Jackson.
Reedus and Kruger appeared together in the 2015 film Sky.
In December 2015, The New York Daily News reported that the pair were seen “wildly making out” at a bar.
At the time Kruger declined to comment, while Reedus’s spokesperson denied the reports.
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Reedus has been linked with Diane Kruger
What is Norman Reedus’s net worth?
The actor is worth an estimated $ 8 million, more than any of this Walking Dead co-stars save for the show’s lead Andrew Lincoln.
He reportedly earns $ 80,000 per episode of The Walking Dead, $ 10,000 less than Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes.
Reedus has earned his fortune from his extensive career in film and modelling, as well as ventures into painting and photography.
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