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Addy Miller

Addy Miller is an American actor known as Summer, the first child walker seen in The Walking Dead, and as the lead of the horror film Behind You.

Biography

A few seconds in The Walking Dead's opening scene made Addy Miller part of modern horror history, before later films gave her room to work outside the walker makeup.

The North Carolina actor began in The Secret Life of Bees, played the teddy-bear walker in The Walking Dead and later led Behind You.

Known for

The Walking Dead

She played Summer, the Little Girl Walker in the opening sequence of the series premiere.[1][6]

Behind You

She played Olivia in her first lead role in a feature-length film.[1][7]

The Secret Life of Bees

She played Young Lily in the film that provided her first major screen break.[1]

Career highlights

  1. Young Lily

    Her first major film role came at eight

    Miller played Young Lily, the childhood version of Dakota Fanning's character, in The Secret Life of Bees.[1][2]

  2. First Walker

    The Walking Dead made one brief scene endure

    She played Summer, the teddy-bear child walker Rick encounters in the series premiere, which was also Miller's first television work.[1][6]

  3. Walker Stunt

    She performed the fall herself

    Miller recalled launching backward from a ladder onto padded mats to create the overhead shot after Rick fires at Summer.[2]

  4. Behind You Lead

    Behind You became her first feature lead

    As Olivia, Miller carried the older-sister side of a supernatural horror story built around a dangerous mirror and a fractured family.[1][7]

  5. Later Screen Work

    She kept working beyond the walker image

    Her later filmography includes Dark Places, June, Sugar Skull Girls, Behind You and the 2022 horror film Abandoned.[3][8]

Good to know

Her birthday is January 4, 2000

Miller was born on January 4, 2000, in North Carolina.[3][4]

The Walking Dead was her first television role

Miller said she auditioned for the experience because she had not worked on a television series before.[2]

She studied communications at NC State

Miller studied communication with a public relations concentration and journalism coursework at NC State.[1]