Melissa McBride

Melissa Suzanne McBride was born May 23, 1965 in Lexington, Kentucky. She is best known for her role as Sophia Peletier's mother and Ed Peletier's wife, Carol Peletier on AMC's The Walking Dead. She had a minor role in Stephen King's movie, The Mist as well as other minor roles in other various movies. She is also a Casting Director in Atlanta, Georgia.

She began acting in film and on television during the early 1990s. She made ​​her debut on television in 1993 on an episode of ABC legal drama Matlock and in later years appeared in TV movies, such as In the Heat of the Night: Give Me Your Life, Her Deadly Rival, Close to Danger, Any Place But Home, Nathan Dixon and Pirates of Silicon Valley. In 1996 she appeared on the CBS miniseries A Season in Purgatory based on 1993 novel with the same name by Dominick Dunne.

McBride guest starred in several television series, including American Gothic, Profiler, Walker, Texas Ranger, and Dawson's Creek.

McBride worked as a film and commercial casting director in Atlanta, Georgia from 2000 until, in 2010.

In 2007 director Frank Darabont cast McBride as the "Woman With Kids at Home" in the ensemble cast science-fiction horror film The Mist based on the 1980 novella of the same name by Stephen King.