Natania

Natania is a fictional group leader and a minor character featured on the AMC survival horror television series The Walking Dead. Played by actress Deborah May, she first appeared in the sixth episode of season seven, "Swear".

Biography
Natania's life prior to the zombie apocalypse is relatively unknown. What is known is that she had a daughter, who gave her two grandchildren. In the mid 2010s, Natania and her family were part of a group of survivors who had settled on the East Coast of Virginia. Their group ran afoul of another larger and more aggressive organization known as the Saviors. The group fought back, and as a result, the Saviors rounded up all males above the age of ten and executed them in a firing line by shooting each one in the head. The surviving women fled and established their own sanctuary at the Oceanside Cabin Motor Court. Natania became the leader of the surviving women, which included her granddaughter, Cyndie. Due to the violence they had suffered, Natania instituted a strict policy of secrecy and that all strangers were to be killed on sight.

The residents at Oceanside captured a woman named Tara Chambler. Tara likely would have been shot had it not been for the intervention of Cyndie. Natania had her handcuffed in a cabin and introduced herself. After questioning her at length, she brought her to another cabin where she served her dinner. She revealed some of the history of Oceanside, and detailed their past with the Saviors after Tara asked where all the men were. Natania also revealed that she knew Tara was lying about where she came from. Tara confessed to belonging to a larger community and offered forth the possibility of establishing a cooperative network between the two. Natania would not give up her isolationist sensibilities and instead offered Tara a place with them. Tara turned the offer down, and Natania assigned two women named Beatrice an Kathy to escort her back to the bridge.

As the three women marched through the woods, Tara knew that Beatrice and Kathy had no intention of letting her go free. She ran from them and the two women gave chase. She managed to escape with some unexpected help from Cyndie, who disagreed with Natania's policy of killing all outsiders.

Notes & Trivia



 * At the time of her first appearance, Natania did not have a counterpart in the The Walking Dead comic book series by Image Comics.

Appearances

 * 1) Walking Dead: Swear