{"id":47706,"date":"2017-07-24T08:27:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=47706"},"modified":"2017-07-24T08:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T08:27:14","slug":"walking-dead-10-things-need-know-chandler-riggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=47706","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Walking Dead\u2019: 10 Things You Need To Know About Chandler Riggs"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate the Oct. 22 Season 8 premiere of  <\/strong><\/em>The Walking Dead<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 the series\u2019 100th episode \u2014 Yahoo TV will be posting a new <\/strong><\/em>TWD<\/strong>-related story every day through the season opener.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

As Carl Grimes, we\u2019ve watched him grow up from a young boy thrown into a zombie apocalypse to a young man who knows his way around a machine gun, but in real life,The Walking Dead\u2019s<\/em> Chandler Riggs is a regular teenager \u2014 whose high school yearbook collage features his press clippings. Diehard fans know the basic deets, that the popular actor was born and raised in Georgia and started in the business early. But here are 10 things you may not know about Riggs.<\/p>\n

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1. His middle name is Carlton.<\/h2>\n

When parents William and Gina Ann Riggs named baby Chandler in 1999, they gave him his mom\u2019s maiden name, Carlton, as a middle name. Who knew 10 years later he\u2019d be known as Carl on TWD<\/em>?<\/p>\n

2. His first movie credit was a movie about\u2026 zombies.<\/h2>\n

One of Chandler\u2019s first acting credits was in the 2006 horror flick Jesus H. Zombie<\/em>. He was just seven years old when he played Egon, part of the zombie ensemble.<\/p>\n