It was revealed earlier this week that a major star from Yellowstone was killed off before the start of Y: Marshals, starring Luke Grimes.

That unlucky person is Kayce Dutton’s wife, Monica Dutton, played by Kelsey Asbille.

Now Daily Mail can report on which Yellowstone actors are actually making it into the highly anticipated new series.

 

 

This tough group takes on gang members, the cartels and even Grizzly bears. The show’s logline says Kayce will attempt to ‘bring range justice to Montana, where he and his teammates must balance family, duty and the high psychological cost that comes with serving as the last line of defense in the region’s war on violence.’

Brecken Merrill, who portrays Kayce’s son Tate Dutton, is part of the show.

He has already been seen in one of the teasers for Y-Marshals and looked much older than he did in Yellowstone.

Merrill is an old school Yellowstone star as he was in the very first season as a child actor. He is now 17-years-old.

Another old face from Yellowstone is Gil Birmingham.

He is returning as Broken Rock Reservation chief Thomas Rainwater.

The veteran actor is seen in an earlier trailer telling Kayce that all the Duttons are born killers, but that Kayce is different because he is a ‘protector.’

The show also brings back Rainwater’s right-hand man Mo, played by Mo Brings Plenty.

Then there is Gregory Zaragoza. This martial arts expert played Red Bear in a 2021 episode of Yellowstone. He also had a notable role in the Yellowstone prequel 1883 in a scene opposite Tim McGraw.

There will be a lot of new faces on Y-Marshals.

Meanwhile, Brett Cullen, who played Batman’s father Thomas Wayne in Joker, will recur as the Montana head of the US Marshals, Harry Gifford.

Ash Santos, Tatanka Means and Arielle Kebbel have also been cast as regulars.

Grimes starred throughout the hugely successful five-season run of Yellowstone as Kayce Dutton, one of the family of ranchers at the center of the story.

Kevin Costner left the show after filming only the first half of season five, prompting his character, John Dutton, to be killed off in a murder-for-hire plot.

His departure came under a cloud of rumors that he feuded with Taylor Sheridan, though he evidently ultimately left the show over scheduling conflicts with his own four-part Western movie Horizon, which he directed, starred in and co-wrote.