Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins ‘The Good Wife’ as a series regular

Norman Weiss July 6, 2015, 3:15 pm

Jeffrey Dean Morgan joins The Good Wife as a series regular

Morgan will play the “a calm, experienced hourly investigator” hired by Alicia. “We’ve loved and admired Jeffrey Dean Morgan for years,” exec producers Robert and Michelle King said of the Extant star, in a statement. “And we were thrilled to hear that Julianna (Margulies) did too, so it was a no-brainer to ask him to join our troupe.” PLUS: Makenzie Vega will no longer be a series regular next season.

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