Kim Dickens

Kim Dickens played the role of Cassidy Phillips.

Her film debut was in the 1995 comedy film Palookaville. Dickens played lead roles in the films Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997), Zero Effect (1998) and Mercury Rising (1998). Her other films include Great Expectations (1998), Hollow Man (2000), House of Sand and Fog (2003), Thank You for Smoking (2005), The Blind Side (2009), Gone Girl (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), Lizzie (2018), and Land (2021). She was cast as the protagonist in Fear the Walking Dead (2015-2023), which she was for the first four seasons, before leaving and returning at the end of the seventh season, and reprising her role as the protagonist for the eighth and final season.

Background

• Made her stage debut in a student production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago at Vanderbilt University.
• Was a member of the varsity softball and varsity tennis teams.
• Was a member of the National Honor Society, Student-of-the-Month, as well as Senior Class Favorite.
• Graduated from high school in 1983.
• Played Joanie Stubbs on Deadwood
• Played Sarah in the 2000 thriller Hollow Man.
• Plays Shelby Saracen in TV's Friday Night Lights.
• Plays Janette Desautel in HBO's Treme.
• Played Kate Stark in one episode of FlashForward (2009).
• Played Madison Clark in Fear the Walking Dead.