Michelle Randolph

Michelle Randolph was handed the full script of Landman and given until the next morning to film a self-tape. Taylor Sheridan had asked for all 18 pages, and she has said she "felt immediately like it was mine to lose" [2]. He called the next day to tell her she had the part [2]. She was born on 11 September 1997, so she is 29 years old as of 3 November 2026 [1].

She is an American actress [7]. Today she plays Ainsley Norris in Landman, played Elizabeth Strafford in the Yellowstone prequel 1923, and appears in the horror film Scream 7, which opened on 27 February 2026 [2] [3].

Early life and family

Randolph spent most of her childhood in Northern California, a region she calls "Nor-Ca", and she has lived in California all her life [1]. Hello Magazine also describes her as born in Northern California [6]. Her hometown and her parents are not named in the reporting we reviewed, so we leave them out. As a child she played volleyball and soccer [1]. She remembers being shy and having stage fright, and at first she did not think of acting as a career [5].

Her family moved to Huntington Beach, closer to Los Angeles, when she was 16 [5]. Hello Magazine adds that she moved there to model [6]. Her father was a long-time fan of Yellowstone [5]. At home, the family held weekly horror movie nights, with titles such as Final Destination, Paranormal Activity, Insidious and The Blair Witch Project [3].

She has an older sister and a younger brother [1]. Her older sister is Cassie Randolph, who won season 23 of The Bachelor while Michelle was still in college [3] [1]. The two sisters co-own LNDN Denim, a sustainable denim brand named after their younger brother, Landon [1]. Grazia also reports that Michelle founded an animal-rescue charity called House Cat [5].

She has said that she always felt drawn to film but did not see it as a realistic job, because nobody she knew worked in the industry [4].

Modelling, college and the first roles

Randolph signed with Wilhelmina Models and then began acting after she booked her first movie [5] [6]. She has said modelling began when she was 18 and helped pay for college [4]. The sources differ slightly on timing: Hello Magazine places the move to model at 16, while The Glass Magazine places the start of modelling at 18 [6] [4]. She later stopped modelling to concentrate on acting [5].

Her first role was in House of the Witch, opposite Darren Mann [4]. Rotten Tomatoes dates the film to 2017 [8]. Mann would later play her fiancé in 1923, which she describes as a pairing that came five years after that first film [4].

She studied at Arizona State University while working. She filmed 1923 while taking classes and graduated with honors in spring 2023 with a degree in Film and Media Studies [1]. In college she also took four semesters of American Sign Language, after three in high school [1]. A horror elective gave her the chance to write essays on The Exorcist and The Shining [3].

1923 and cowboy camp

1923 is the Yellowstone prequel that premiered in 2022 and follows 1883 [2] [5]. Randolph plays Elizabeth Strafford, known as Liz, who is engaged to Jack Dutton, played by Darren Mann [5] [2]. She has said she still does not know whether her character is the grandmother of John Dutton, the character played by Kevin Costner in Yellowstone [2].

She auditioned with the creator Taylor Sheridan and John Papsidera [5]. On set she worked closely with Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren [5]. Before filming she went to Sheridan's "cowboy camp" in Montana, which covered riding, roping and barrel racing [4] [5]. She had never ridden a horse before it [1]. Her arc was filmed in Montana [2].

She has talked about imposter syndrome and says she turns it into effort [4].

Landman

Landman is a Paramount+ drama based on the Texas Monthly podcast Boomtown, co-created by Christian Wallace [2]. Randolph plays Ainsley Norris, the daughter of Tommy Norris, who is played by Billy Bob Thornton [1]. In the first season Ainsley is 17 and Randolph calls her "a wild child" [1] [4]. TheWrap names Ali Larter as the actress playing her on-screen mother [2]. Cultured instead names Demi Moore as the other parent, so the sources disagree on that detail [3].

The audition was rushed. The Glass Magazine says she had 12 hours to prepare [4]. To get ready she worked with the dialect coach Jessica Drake on a Texas accent, rewatched Friday Night Lights, studied Jane Fonda in Barefoot in the Park and took the tone of Sideways as a reference [4] [2]. The cast spent about six months shooting in Texas [2].

One scene in the premiere spread widely online. Sheridan wrote a moment in which Ainsley sets a sexual "rule" for her boyfriend, and Randolph says she could not keep a straight face while filming it [2]. Cultured describes the clip as a frank conversation about sex and intimacy with her on-screen father [3].

By February 2026 the second season had wrapped, and Cultured reports that the show had become the most-viewed series in Paramount+ history [3]. She has said she is committed to the role for the long term [2].

Scream 7

Scream 7 is her first horror film role, and it opened on 27 February 2026 [3]. Rotten Tomatoes lists her as Madison [8]. She stars alongside Neve Campbell, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Isabel May, under the director Kevin Williamson [3]. She has named The Silence of the Lambs as her favourite film [3].

The film opened to an estimated $64.1 million in the United States and Canada from 3,580 locations, and $97.2 million worldwide, according to TheWrap [9]. That article does not mention Randolph by name.

Best-known work

The table follows the credits listed by Rotten Tomatoes, with the series from TheWrap and Cultured. Years for television are the years the series began where a source gives them.

Year	Title	Role
2017	House of the Witch	Rachel [8]
2018	A Snow White Christmas	Blanca [8]
2020	5 Years Apart	Brie [8]
2021	The Resort	Bree [8]
2022	1923 (series)	Elizabeth Strafford [2] [5]
2024	Landman (series)	Ainsley Norris [2] [1]
2024	The Throwback	Shea [8]
2026	Scream 7	Madison [8]
2026	Clashing Through the Snow	Hannah Hendricks [8]

Awards and net worth

The reporting we reviewed lists no major acting award for Randolph. We do not report a net worth. Websites that publish figures rarely name an outlet or a date, and no source in this article, such as Forbes or Bloomberg, offers a dated estimate.

Relationships

Randolph previously dated the actor Gregg Sulkin for several years [7]. She and Glen Powell were first linked in November 2025, when they were filmed dancing at a bar in Austin, Texas [6] [7]. They confirmed the relationship on Instagram in July 2026 with a Fourth of July photo post, a black-and-white kiss captioned "Hell of a Fourth" [7] [6].

On 3 September 2026, at an autograph signing in New York City, Powell told TMZ: "I'd say it's very serious." He sidestepped a question about an engagement [7] [6]. Hello Magazine notes that Randolph had not spoken publicly about the relationship by then [6]. Press reports place the couple in Paris on 10 August 2026 and at a game in Knoxville, Tennessee, on 26 September 2026 [7].

What she is doing now

As of autumn 2026 Randolph is a series regular on Landman, with a second season completed, and has Scream 7 in cinemas behind her [3]. Rotten Tomatoes also lists a 2026 film, Clashing Through the Snow, in which she plays Hannah Hendricks [8]. Alongside acting she keeps her LNDN Denim business with her sister Cassie [1].