EXCLUSIVE: Austin Nichols (I Know What You Did Last Summer (film, 2025), The Six Triple Eight) has joined the cast of USA Network‘s The Rainmaker for Season 2. He will play Bruiser’s (Lana Parilla) ex-husband, minor league baseball coach, and former player who finds himself in the middle of a dangerous conspiracy.
Based on the best-selling novel by John Grisham, The Rainmaker follows Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan), who is fresh out of law school, goes head-to-head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond (John Slattery) as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah (Madison Iseman). Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck (P. J. Byrne), uncover two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client’s son.
The Season 1 cast also included Dan Fogler, Wade Briggs, and Robyn Cara.
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Details regarding what the legal drama’s second season will focus on will be revealed at a later date.
USA Network renewed The Rainmaker in October, which averaged 1.3M total viewers during its freshman season. The season finale was the most-viewed episode of the season on USA Network. In total cross-platform viewership of the season to date, The Rainmaker is USA’s most-viewed freshman series in seven years, according to the network.
The Rainmaker is produced by Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Television. Michael Seitzman, who also serves as showrunner, John Grisham, Patrick Moran, Jason Richman, David Gernert, and Jason Blum executive produce.
Nichols’ recent film roles include Pastor Judah in the Jennifer Kaytin Robinson-directed I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) and Netflix’s The Six Triple Eight (2024), directed by Tyler Perry. Additional notable credits include Jerry Bruckheimer’s Glory Road (2006), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Wimbledon (2004), The Informers (2008), Beautiful Boy (2010), and Parkland (2013). As a director, he made his debut with The Salamander King last year.
His small screen credits include HBO Max/Starz series, Minx, the CW series Walker, This Close for Sundance channel, the NBC drama series The Village, A&E’s Bates Motel, and AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead. Nichols is repped by CESD Talent Agency and Strand Entertainment.