Sheriff Country is coming together!
The upcoming TV show, a spinoff of CBS‘ popular Fire Country, was ordered to series for the 2025-26 season last year.
Here’s a synopsis: “Sheriff Country follows straight-shooting Sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief Sharon Leone, who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater while contending with her ex-con father and a mysterious incident involving her wayward daughter.”
W. Earl Brown as Wes Fox – JOINING!
The star of Hacks, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett has signed on for a guest starring role on Fire Country, Deadline confirms.
He will portray Wes, “an off-the-grid marijuana grower as well as the father of Sheriff Mickey Fox and stepfather of Sharon Leone. Wes lives a semi-reclusive life in the mountains of Edgewater, allowing only a select few to know the location of his marijuana grow operation. This illegal business creates tension with his daughter Mickey, the local sheriff. A ‘lovable outlaw’ and ‘Rippie’ (redneck-hippie), Wes is kind and generous toward his family, particularly his granddaughter Skye. However, his good intentions are sometimes undermined by his unreliable nature,” via CBS.
Morena Baccarin as Sheriff Mickey Fox – JOINING!
Sheriff Mickey Fox was first introduced on Fire Country in the April episode, “Alert the Sheriff.”
Mickey is not only the step-sister of Sharon (Diane Farr), but she also had a hand in putting Sharon’s son Bode (Max Thieriot) behind bars before he joined the Cal Fire firefighting program.
“Our backstory is that Mickey’s dad was an original resident [in Edgewater] and he got busted for growing weed,” says Joan Rater, who wrote the episode with Tony Phelan that was directed by Max Thieriot, via Deadline. “And if you’re a kid who has that kind of chaos happen early in your life, it would make sense to us that you would want to avoid chaos at all costs. You would want to believe in order and rules and law and order. And so she’s a person who likes order, but she knows everybody in town. It gives her a unique perspective.”
“Because of her unique background, she’s somebody who firmly believes in the law as a force against chaos, and she deeply cares about this community,” added Tony. “She’s grown up here in a very real sense, the community saved her when her parents ran into trouble early on. So I think a lot of her journey is in discovering her own power and her own ability to take care of these people.”
Diane Farr as Sharon – JOINING!
Diane made comments in December 2024 that confirmed she’ll be exploring her character’s relationship with her step-sister, Mickey, in Sheriff Country.
“I’m so excited to develop this relationship among sisters that’s not squishy. They are so tough with each other, and it’s the only place where Sharon has no status. She has broken things, she has done things poorly. She’s like low man on the totem pole, and the other person is constantly chewing her, like, on her. That’s what I’m so excited [for]. Like, we always laugh that it’s so fun to see two sisters with no treacle, they’re just hard with each other. But I love Sharon having no status, like she’s constantly questioning herself, because we never see her do that anywhere else,” she told Cinemablend at the end of 2024.
Christopher Gorham – JOINING!
Christopher Gorham, who you may recognize from The Lincoln Lawyer, has joined the cast.
He’ll portray Travis, who according to Deadline, “a lawyer and Sheriff Mickey Fox’s ex-husband. Together, they have a daughter, Skye, whom they’ve helped through addiction struggles. Despite their many differences, Travis and Mickey might still harbor feelings for each other. ”
Michele Weaver – JOINING!
Recent The Pitt guest star Michele Weaver has also joined the cast!
She’ll portray Cassidy, “a deputy in the Edgewater County Sheriff’s Office who was inspired by Mickey to join law enforcement. Cassidy places Mickey on a pedestal but must now figure out what kind of deputy she wants to be.”
Matt Lauria – JOINING!
Matt Lauria has been cast as the co-lead in the upcoming series, as of April 2025.
Variety reports the CSI: Vegas alum will “play Boone, Mickey’s longtime partner who is described as a ‘smart, tough and capable deputy’ with a different style of law enforcement, being from Oakland.”
Sheriff Country is set to debut in Fall 2025. Watch a first look above!
