Austin Amelio

Austin Amelio is an actor and former skateboarder best known for playing Dwight on The Walking Dead from 2015 to 2018, then continuing the role on Fear the Walking Dead from 2019 to 2023.

Dwight enters The Walking Dead in season 6 as a lieutenant of the Saviors under Negan. The part covers the burned face, the crossbow taken from Daryl Dixon, and Dwight’s later break with the Sanctuary. On Fear the Walking Dead he is a series regular from season 5 through season 8, still carrying the crossbow and the history with Negan and Sherry. Together the two shows account for the bulk of his television work.

Austin was in the horror movie Mercy Black (2019), in which he played Will Nylund. The film follows a woman released from psychiatric care who finds that an urban legend she was involved in as a teenager has spread online. Other film credits include Nesbit in Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), a role in Terrence Malick’s Song to Song (2017), Hark in Holler (2020), Jasper in Hit Man (2023), and The Conquistador in the supernatural horror movie Hokum (2026). He has also appeared in Stumptown and the series When Nobody Sees Us.

Amelio has two new movies slated for a 2027 release: The Rescue, and the Ron Howard war drama Alone at Dawn.