The Academy Award nominee has been cast in the spinoff series The Dutton Ranch (working title) in a lead role opposite returning stars Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser, and Finn Little, Paramount announced on Monday. Bening will play a character named Beulah Jackson, described as the powerful, cunning, and charming head of a major ranch in Texas.

EXCLUSIVE: Annette Bening (Nyad) has joined the leading cast of the Paramount+ Yellowstone Beth and Rip spinoff series, which now has a working title, The Dutton Ranch. She will star opposite Kelly Reilly,

The spinoff, which has a working title of 'The Dutton Ranch,' will follow Reilly's Beth Dutton and Hauser's Rip Wheeler