Patricia Clarkson joins Ransom Canyon season 2 as Claire O'Grady

Patricia Clarkson has joined the cast of Ransom Canyon as production on the Netflix western drama’s second season is underway in New Mexico, producers said. Clarkson will guest star as Claire O’Grady, the mother of Minka Kelly’s character Quinn, as filming continues at Netflix Studios Albuquerque with a shoot scheduled to run from mid September 2025 through mid January 2026.

The series will return Josh Duhamel and Minka Kelly to their leading roles, with James Brolin also listed among the returning cast. Other series regulars and recurring players expected to appear include Lizzy Greene, Garrett Wareing, Jack Schumacher, Marianly Tejada and Casey W. Johnson, who has been promoted to a series regular. Newcomers Ben Robson and Heidi Engerman have been cast in recurring roles, and guest appearances will include Tatanka Means, Justin Johnson Cortez, Kenny Miller, Philip Winchester, Jennifer Ens, Brett Cullen and Niko Guardado.

The second season begins production after the first season’s run in April 2025, which brought the adaptation of Jodi Thomas’s novels into the global top 10 TV English-language chart for four weeks and into the top 10 in dozens of countries. Showrunner, creator...