{"id":2361862,"date":"2026-04-07T03:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2361862"},"modified":"2026-04-07T03:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T03:21:07","slug":"marshals-all-the-details-on-riley-greens-acting-debut-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marshals-all-the-details-on-riley-greens-acting-debut-entertainment-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Marshals\u2019: All the Details on Riley Green\u2019s Acting Debut | Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Country music star <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/riley-green\/\">Riley Green<\/a> will <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1199922\/yellowstone-spinoff-y-marshals-cast-premiere-date-trailer-updates-kayce-dutton\/\">make his acting debut in\u00a0<em>Marshals<\/em><\/a>, and now we know when his episode will premiere on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/cbs\/\">CBS<\/a> and how Luke Grimes was involved in his casting in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/yellowstone\/\"><em>Yellowstone<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>spinoff.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marshals<\/em> stars Grimes as Kayce Dutton, who\u2019s seeking a new start with the U.S. Marshals and his fellow Navy SEAL veteran, Cal (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/logan-marshall-green\/\">Logan Marshall-Green<\/a>), after the death of his wife, Monica (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/kelsey-asbille\/\">Kelsey Asbille<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The series is the first\u00a0<em>Yellowstone\u00a0<\/em>spinoff to air on CBS, and it features\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em> characters such as Kayce and Monica\u2019s son, Tate (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/brecken-merrill\/\">Brecken Merrill<\/a>), Thomas Rainwater (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/gil-birmingham\/\">Gil Birmingham<\/a>), Mo (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/mo-brings-plenty\/\">Mo Brings Plenty<\/a>), and, in Season 1 Episode 6, Felix Long (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/rudy-ramos\/\">Rudy Ramos<\/a>), Monica\u2019s grandfather. Belle (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/arielle-kebbel\/\">Arielle Kebbel<\/a>), Andrea (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ash-santos\/\">Ash Santos<\/a>), and Miles (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/tatanka-means\/\">Tatanka Means<\/a>) make up Kayce and Cal\u2019s Marshals team.<\/p>\n<p>Green won\u2019t be appearing as himself in\u00a0<em>Marshals<\/em>. He plays a character named Garrett (see him in the role in the photo above). Here\u2019s everything you need to know about Green and his character before his\u00a0<em>Marshals\u00a0<\/em>debut.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Riley Green?<\/h2>\n<p>Green, 38, became popular in country music with his debut self-titled EP in 2018. Since then, he\u2019s made hits such as \u201cI Wish Grandpas Never Died,\u201d \u201cThere Was This Girl,\u201d \u201cDifferent \u2018Round Here (Ft. Luke Combs),\u201d and his duet with Thomas Rhett, \u201cHalf of Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter was named the Academy of Country Music\u2019s New Male Artist of the Year in 2020, and he\u2019s toured with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/morgan-wallen\/\">Morgan Wallen<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/luke-combs\/\">Luke Combs<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ella-langley\/\">Ella Langley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His third studio album, <em>Don\u2019t Mind If I Do<\/em>, came out in October 2024, with a deluxe edition coming out in August 2025.<\/p>\n<h2>Who does Riley Green play in\u00a0<em>Marshals<\/em>?<\/h2>\n<p>Green plays Garrett, a former Navy SEAL who arrives at Kayce\u2019s ranch unexpectedly. Garrett hopes to lean on his friends Kayce and Cal (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/logan-marshall-green\/\">Logan Marshall-Green<\/a>) to help \u201cput the demons of his past to rest.\u201d Green\u2019s first episode airs on Sunday, April 19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so excited to be joining the cast of <em>Marshals<\/em>. Being on set with my buddy Luke Grimes made the experience even more memorable,\u201d Green said in a statement on February 19, when his casting was announced by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/riley-green-yellowstone-spinoff-marshals-1236667060\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a>. \u201cThis is my first go around in the acting space, and I couldn\u2019t have asked for a better introduction to this world.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1256292\" style=\"width: 864px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1256292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riley Green as Garrett in <em>Marshals<\/em> Season 1 Episode 8, \u2018Blowback\u2019 (Fred Hayes \/ CBS)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Grimes was involved in music before he starred in\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>. He kicked off his country music career in 2022. Grimes revealed that he and Green were working on some music together when he had the idea for Green to appear on\u00a0<em>Marshals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiley and I were doing a write together, and he was talking about wanting to act, and this was right when <em data-node-id=\"1.1\">Marshals<\/em> was sort of coming together,\u201d Luke told <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"body-link css-l74ddf emevuu60\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/player\/channel-linear\/entity\/ffd94bb6-5368-67ae-91be-5b2bababeca0?_branch_match_id=867166313920887887&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL67I1UssKNDLyczL1g8IAlG6IRmpHpnpGeWJlfZ1RalpqUVFmXnp8UlF%2BeXFqUW2zhlF%2BbmpADtTrtVAAAAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-ga-outbound-link=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/player\/channel-linear\/entity\/ffd94bb6-5368-67ae-91be-5b2bababeca0?_branch_match_id=867166313920887887&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXL67I1UssKNDLyczL1g8IAlG6IRmpHpnpGeWJlfZ1RalpqUVFmXnp8UlF%2BeXFqUW2zhlF%2BbmpADtTrtVAAAAA\" data-vars-ga-ux-element=\"Hyperlink\" data-vars-ga-call-to-action=\"SiriusXM The Highway\" data-node-id=\"1.3\">SiriusXM The Highway<\/a><\/em> on April 3. \u201cI thought, \u2018Man, that\u2019d be kind of cool if he was like in my show.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grimes said this idea came relatively early in the creation stages for\u00a0<em>Marshals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew what it was going to be, and I knew we were getting into that Navy SEAL stuff, and I was like, \u2018He could be like an old team buddy or something,&#8217;\u201d Grimes explained. \u201cHe\u2019s got that look to him like he could be a team guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I wasn\u2019t doing myself any favors. Who wants to stand next to him on screen? You know what I mean? He\u2019s 6\u20194\u2033 and pretty darn handsome,\u201d the <em data-node-id=\"6.1\">Yellowstone<\/em> star joked, \u201cBut I was like, \u2018You know what, man? I think he\u2019d actually be really good at it, and I think this would be a great way in for him.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Marshals<\/em> creator and showrunner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/spencer-hudnut\/\">Spencer Hudnut<\/a> was well aware of Green, but Grimes said that CBS wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was very aware of who Riley was and wrote him a great part. Then the funny thing was, CBS didn\u2019t know who he was as much as we did,\u201d Grimes revealed, adding that Green had to audition with Grimes to get the part that was written for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made him audition, and I was like, \u2018You\u2019re going to make Riley Green audition for this?\u2019\u201d Grimes shared. \u201cLike, we wrote him a part, give it to him. They\u2019re like, \u2018No, we want to make sure that, you know, he can act a little bit.\u2019 I was like, \u2018OK.\u2019 So he flew out to Utah, and I auditioned with him. We read together, and I just thought it was the funniest thing ever that he had to audition for something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CMA and ACM award winner \u201cdid better than any of us expected that he would do,\u201d Grimes said. \u201cFirst time ever on a set like that, never acted before \u2014 he crushed it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grimes\u2019 second country music album,\u00a0<em>Redbird<\/em>, came out on Friday, April 3. According to the actor-singer, Green has given him plenty of music advice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gives me advice. I think the thing you learn from Riley is how some people are just so good at handling the entertainment business as a personality, and the way he moves through it so effortlessly,\u201d Grimes said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to learn there. I don\u2019t think that guy gets nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Marshals<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Sundays, 8\/7c, CBS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wfmz.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music star Riley Green will make his acting debut in\u00a0Marshals, and now we know when his episode will premiere on CBS and how Luke Grimes was involved in his casting in the Yellowstone\u00a0spinoff. Marshals stars Grimes as Kayce Dutton, who\u2019s seeking a new start with the U.S. Marshals and his fellow Navy SEAL veteran, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2361863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21738,21902,137882,137883],"class_list":["post-2361862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-news","tag-ntvb_media","tag-syndicate","tag-syndicate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/\u2018Marshals-All-the-Details-on-Riley-Greens-Acting-Debut.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2361864,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361862\/revisions\/2361864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}