Meet the Dutton Ranch cast: The new and returning characters in Yellowstone spin-off
Meet the Jackson family...
Who are all these new people on the latest Yellowstone series? As Beth and Rip try to start fresh, they run into a family that rivals their own in more ways than one. Here’s what you need to know about the cast and characters on Dutton Ranch.
Like Marshals, this is a spin-off that takes a handful of Yellowstone characters and continues their story. But while the former was about a new vocation, this one is all about a new location. Beth Dutton and her husband Rip Wheeler have moved their small family to Texas. Unsurprisingly, they don’t have the same kind of pull they had in Montana. The families in the Lonestar State are established and tight-knit.
Here's what you need to know about the cast and the characters they play:
Kelly Reilly plays Beth Dutton
Beth is a financier and the daughter of Yellowstone patriarch John Dutton.
Reilly reprises her role from Yellowstone. Before that, you knew her as Caroline Bingley in Pride & Prejudice (2005) and Mary Watson in the Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law Sherlock Holmes movies. Maybe you saw her in Flight with Denzel Washington. She was critically acclaimed for her work in the films Mrs. Henderson Presents and Eden Lake as well as Yellowstone. Reilly was also a series regular on Black Box, Above Suspicion, Britannia, and the second season of True Detective.
Cole Hauser plays Rip Wheeler
Rip is a foreman, enforcer, and Beth’s husband.
Hauser is also reprising his Yellowstone role. Prior and in addition to the long-running series, he was in films like School Ties and Good Will Hunting, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Dazed and Confused, as well as Pitch Black. In 2001, he was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in the war drama Tigerland. On television, he was a series regular on The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, Rogue, Chase, and K-Ville.
IG: @colehauser22
Ed Harris plays Everett McKinney
Everett is a local veterinarian. He’s a double vet, actually, having served in Vietnam.
Harris is a four time Academy Award-nominee for Apollo 13, The Truman Show, Pollock, and The Hours. He is a Golden Globe winner for Game Change and The Truman Show. His copious other films include Stepmom, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, Snowpiercer, Top Gun: Maverick and The Lost Daughter. He additionally played the antagonist William/The Man in Black on Westworld for four seasons and was nominated for an Emmy.
Annette Bening plays Beulah Jackson
The Jackson family owns the 10 Petal Ranch, and Beulah is the matriarch.
Bening is a five time Academy Award-nominee for The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia, The Kids Are Alright, and Nyad. She won a BAFTA and two Golden Globes. Bening also got nominated for an Emmy for Mrs. Harris, and two Tony Awards for All My Sons in 2019 and Coastal Disturbances back in 1987. Other film roles include An American President, 20th Century Women, and recently Captain Marvel and The Bride! In a way, this is her first true television series–though she was in a miniseries called Apples Never Fall in 2024 and Lucky later this year.
Jai Courtney plays Rob-Will Jackson
Beulah’s youngest son and a bit of a wild card.
Courtney played Captain Boomerang in Suicide Squad and its sequel The Suicide Squad. He also played Eric in the Divergent movies. He was in the shark movie Dangerous Animals last year. He racked up action film credits in the 2010s including Jack Reacher, Terminator: Genisys, and A Good Day To Die Hard. He received critical acclaim for his supporting role in the Australian film Felony. On the television side of things, his credits include Kaleidoscope, American Primeval, Spartacus: Blood & Sand, as well as Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later.
IG: @jaicourtney
Natalie Alyn Lind plays Oreana Lynn Jackson
Oreana Lynn is Rob-Will’s daughter and Carter’s love interest.
Lind played a DC comics character on Gotham and a Marvel adjacent character on The Gifted. She was a series regular on more grounded shows like Big Sky and Tell Me A Story. You might also know her as Dana Caldwell from The Goldbergs.
IG: @natalynlind
J. R. Villarreal plays Azul Ramos
Azul is one of Beth and Rip’s ranch hands.
As a child actor, Villareal starred in Akilah and the Bee, the On the Block spin-off Freeridge, and the Disney series Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion. In 2024, he had a recurring role on the Sheridan series Landman.
IG: @realjvilla
Marc Menchaca plays Zachariah Moss
Another ranch hand and a former convict.
Menchaca recently had a mysterious and significant role in Dexter: Resurrection. You might know him from shows like Ozark, Generation: Kill and Homeland or films like The Alamo. He was also a voice in Red Dead Redemption 2!
Morgan Wade plays Carol
Carol is a local bartender.
Wade is perhaps best known as a country singer. She was nominated for New Female Artist of the Year by the Academy of Country Music Awards in 2023. While this is her first acting role she will next appear in a film called Daisy.
IG: @morganwademusic
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