Walking Dead: Dead City actress Michelle Hurd cast in drama On the End

Michelle Hurd is well known for her role as Raffi Musiker in Star Trek: Picard, a series that ended its three-season run in 2023. Many fans may have missed Hurd's small role in The Walking Dead spinoff, Dead City. She portrayed a bar owner, Jones, in the first season of the series. Deadline reports on Hurd's upcoming role in the indie drama On the End.

The new project recently wrapped filming in Montauk, NY, and is Ari Selinger's debut as writer/director in the indie production from Moontown Productions and Wise Child Studies. Harris Gurny, Jason Beekman (Wise Child Studios), Raven Jensen, and Matthew Heymann serve as producers, with Nelson (Red Barn Films) and Joanna Naugle (The Bear) as executive producers.

The film is inspired by true events and focuses on Tom, a mechanic who is down-on-his-luck but in an unexpected turn, finds love with a fellow outcast named Freckles. Are their romance blossoms, Tom is faced with eviction from his beachfront home which is also home to his auto shop. The local elites bring the fight to Tom's front door and he and Freckles fight back against the greedy and powerful elitists.

The film is led by Tim Blake Nelson as Tom with Mireille Enos as Freckles. The movie also stars James Badge Dale, Lois Smith, and Anna Chlumsky. Supporting cast members include Hurd, Desmin Borges, Matthew Maher, Glenn Flesher, and Sawyer Spielberg.

Selinger shared with Deadline about his encounter with the real Tom Ferriera in 2011.

"I met a mechanic named Tom Ferriera on Navy Beach back in 2011. Little did I know his life would become the blueprint for On the End, a real-life fable set in a hidden corner of the Hamptons. Although it begins in 2008, the film explores issues of class disparity and gentrification that resonate just as powerfully today. At its core, though, it’s a raw and poignant love story. For my first feature, having collaborators like Tim and Mireille was something out of a dream. I can only hope the audience feels the same magic that I felt filming on the beach in Montauk"

- Ari Selinger

Hurd recently starred in the Netflix original Anyone But You with Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney. She portrays Carol, the mother of Pete (Ga Ta) and Claudia (Alexandra Shipp).

She has been cast in 25 Miles to Normal, a film by Joshua Brandon. She was announced with Lucas Bryant and Bruce Davidson and the previously announced Rachel Nichols, Ed Begley Jr., and Dee Wallace. Hurd will appear in Emily Moss Wilson's indie directorial debut Inheritance.