Morgan takes a ‘ Wife’
JEFFREY Dean Morgan is staying at CBS. Morgan, who joined the cast of the Halle Berry sci- fi summer drama “Extant” this season, will be a regular on the upcoming ( seventh) season of “The Good Wife,” CBS said Monday.
Morgan will play a character named Alex, who’s described as “a calm, experienced hourly investigator” who’s hired by “TGW” protagonist Alicia Florek ( Julianna Margulies).
Morgan, 49, first made a name for himself on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” in2005 as doomed patient Denny Duquette, who was involved in a romance with Izzy Stevens ( Katherine Heigl).
Recently, Morgan headlined the Starz period drama “Magic City” and co- starred in History’s three- part miniseries “Texas Rising.”