Jake Weary Joins Dead City Cast; Watch Him in Netflix’s Trigger Warning

Actor Jake Weary was announced during SDCC as a new cast member for the second season of AMC’s The Walking Dead: Dead City, along with Dascha Polanco, Keir Gilchrist, and Pooya Mohseni. The series has wrapped filming in Massachusetts for the upcoming season and is expected to release in 2025. In June, Netflix released a new action film, Trigger Warning, in which Weary also stars.

Trigger Warning is an action thriller directed by Mouly Surya, an Indonesian filmmaker in her first English-language film. The movie was written by John Brancato, Josh Olson, and Halley Gross, and produced by Thunder Road Films and Lady Spitfire.

The movie follows Parker (Jessica Alba), a special forces commando, who is called back home after the tragic and sudden death of her father. She takes over ownership of her father’s bar and reconnects with her ex-boyfriend Jesse (Mark Webber), who is now sheriff, his hot-tempered brother Elvis (Weary), and their powerful father, Senator Swann (Anthony Michael Hall). As she searches for answers about her father’s death, she encounters members of a violent gang that runs the streets of her hometown. She draws on her special forces training aided by covert ops partner and hacker Spider (Tone Bell) and connected local dealer Mike (Gabriel Basso) to discover the truth.

Watch Trigger Warning, now streaming on Netflix.

In 2002, Weary began his career with a guest appearance on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light, a series that his mother, Daytime Emmy Award-winning actress Kim Zimmer, starred in as Reva Shayne. After that, he starred in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. At 15, he was cast as Luke Snyder in As the World Turns.

He is well known for his role as Vince Keller in the NBC procedural drama Chicago Fire, and Cyrus Petrillo in the teen drama, Pretty Little Liars. More recently, he portrayed Deran Cody in the TNT crime drama, Animal Kingdom.

Many fans may not know that he also starred in Nickelodeon’s Fred: The Movie, its sequels, and Fred: The Show. Weary portrayed Kevin, the arch-rival of the titular character portrayed by Lucas Cruikshank. The franchise also starred Jennette McCurdy, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, John Cena, Stephanie Courtney, Gary Anthony Williams, and Oscar Nunez. The movie received negative critical response but was the highest-viewed TV Cable movie of 2010.

His first feature role was in Assassination of a High School President in 2008, where he portrayed a hall monitor. Other movies to his credit include Tomato Red, Smartass, and Finding Steve McQueen. He appeared in the movie The Birthday Cake with a star-studded cast that also includes Walking Dead alum Aldis Hodge.

Weary has starred in several horror features, including the horror comedy Zombeavers, which, surprisingly, received fairly positive reviews. He would then star in It Follows, a horror film praised for its originality with a story that follows a young woman who, after a sexual encounter, is pursued by a supernatural being. He portrayed Webby, the leader of a gang in It Chapter Two.

In 2022, Weary starred in the “high-stakes eco-thriller,” How to Blow Up a Pipeline. The movie sought its inspiration from the same-titled fictional work by Ariela Barer which examines social justice history and explores destruction of property, in the name of environmental justice, as an accepted tactic.