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Kathy Bates stars as Madeline “Matty” Matlock in the CBS reboot of the hit Matlock series
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The legal drama also stars Jason Ritter, Skye P. Marshall and Leah Lewis
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Many of the cast members have relationships off-screen
The Matlock reboot follows an ensemble of lawyers navigating personal relationships and complicated legal challenges.
Kathy Bates stars as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a former attorney who disguises herself as a widowed lawyer in an attempt to get justice in the death of her daughter, Ellie. As the series unfolds, her prestigious New York law firm colleagues start to become suspicious of Matlock and her intentions.
As with any gripping law drama, there are plenty of complicated relationships between the co-workers, including two played by Jason Ritter and Skye P. Marshall, who are exes in an on-again-off-again relationship.
While the on-screen connections can be complex, in real life, the cast’s partners include notable Hollywood stars; one couple appeared together in HBO’s The Last of Us, and another met on the set of Good Sam.
Here’s everything to know about the real-life partners of the cast of the Matlock reboot.
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Kathy Bates
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Kathy Bates attends the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on February 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Bates plays the titular role on the CBS reboot.
In 1991, she married her longtime boyfriend, Tony Campisi, and they divorced six years later. While the actress has kept her relationships private, she has since touched on the subject.
While presenting at the 2024 Emmy Awards, Bates joked, “Do you know how hard it was to get a date after Misery?” referring to her Oscar-winning role of scary superfan Annie Wilkes in the 1990 thriller.
In a September 2024 interview with Parade, Kathy spoke about Matlock and her relationship with her on-screen husband, Edwin Kingston, played by Sam Anderson.
“It’s lovely. They’ve been married for 49 years and he’s very different than she is,” she explained. “He’s not such a type-A personality, so they really complement one another.”
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Skye P. Marshall and Edwin Hodge
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Edwin Hodge and Skye P. Marshall attend the “You Hurt My Feelings” screening on May 22, 2023 in New York City.
Marshall and Edwin Hodge are a primetime power couple: Marshall plays Olympia Lawrence on Matlock, and Hodge portrayed Ray Cannon on FBI: Most Wanted.
The two actors moved in “similar circles” but never met until they both landed roles on the short-lived CBS medical drama Good Sam in 2020.
“We transformed our on-set romance into a real love story,” Hodge told PEOPLE in June 2024, adding how Marshall “encourages me to push beyond my comfort zone.”
As for Skye, she explained that Hodge pushes her out of her comfort zone. “He inspires me to gain hobbies that continuously activate new and creative ways for me to express myself,” the actress shared.
The two married on June 29, 2024, at Carondelet House in Los Angeles.
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Jason Ritter and Melanie Lynskey
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Jason Ritter and Melanie Lynskey attend the 2025 Vanity Fair Oscar Party on March 2, 2025 in Beverly Hills, California.
On Matlock, Ritter plays Julian Markston, who works alongside his ex-wife, Olympia. In real life, he is married to Yellowjackets star Melanie Lynskey.
The pair started dating more than a decade ago after they met filming The Big Ask in 2013. Ritter and Lynskey would go on to costar in two more movies, We’ll Never Have Paris in 2014 and The Intervention in 2016.
They also both appeared in the first season of HBO’s The Last of Us, even if Ritter was unrecognizable, dressed as a terrifying fungi-infected “clicker.”
In February 2017, Lynskey announced that she and Ritter were engaged during a TV interview. The following winter, the couple welcomed a daughter in December 2018.
Ritter and Lynskey married in an intimate wedding on their front porch in spring 2020.
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David Del Rio and Katherine Del Rio
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Katherine Del Rio and David Del Rio attend the opening night performance of “Freestyle Love Supreme” on July 14, 2022 in Pasadena, California.
David Del Rio portrayed Billy Martinez in Matlock‘s debut season in 2024.
In the midst of season 2, which premiered on Oct. 12, PEOPLE confirmed that Del Rio had been fired following allegations that he had sexually assaulted costar Leah Lewis. The alleged incident occurred in September 2025, and Del Rio was removed from set after an investigation.
Del Rio and Lewis frequently appeared on-screen together as lawyers at the same firm.
Prior to his time on Matlock, David met his wife, Katherine Del Rio, in 2010 when she attended In the Heights on Broadway and saw him, who was in the cast. After getting a picture together at the stage door, the two reunited three years later.
David and Katherine started dating, and in 2017, he proposed at the Richard Rodgers Theater, where they originally met. Shortly after, the couple married in Mexico, and they share two daughters: Lilia and Coco.
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Leah Lewis
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Leah Lewis at the 2025 Paleyfest screening of CBS’s ‘Matlock’ on March 23, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Lewis, who stars as Sarah Franklin, appears to be single and focusing on herself.
The actress thanked fans for their support after her allegations against Del Rio surfaced. Shortly after the news broke, she posted a photo of herself and her mom hugging on her Instagram Stories.
“Mom is here, we’re moving forward in love and strength. I’m in good hands,” she wrote on Oct. 9. “Thank you to everybody for any kind of support and care. Truly, we’re moving forward in strength. Key word, strength. Please, let that be the takeaway.”
Before joining the CBS reboot cast, Lewis starred in The Half of It, Netflix’s 2020 modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac. She also voiced the character Ember in Pixar’s Elemental and was part of the cast of The CW’s Nancy Drew, which ran from 2019 to 2023.
Lewis previously dated musician Payson Lewis, and they collaborated on the track “Back in Time.”
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Eme Ikwuakor and Megha Nabe
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Eme Ikwuakor and Megha Nabe attend the premiere of Netflix’s “The Gray Man” on July 13, 2022 in Hollywood, California.
Ikwuakor plays Elijah Walker, an equity partner at the Jacobson Moore law firm on Matlock.
Ikwuakor met his wife, Megha Nabe, at a Hollywood bar through a mutual friend. They later wed on Dec. 8, 2021, in Costa Mujeres, Mexico.
Ikwuakor and Megha went on to welcome their son Taj in June 2023.
“Such an amazing experience these last three years and I have had the opportunity to not only grow but to expand my life with you,” Ikwuakor wrote on Instagram in December 2024, celebrating the pair’s wedding anniversary.
He continued, “You have been such an amazing partner, mother and friend to not only me but little tiny Tajoes Baboes.”
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Sam Anderson and Barbara Hancock
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Sam Anderson attends the opening night performance of “Hadestown” on April 27, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
On-screen, Anderson portrays Edwin Kingston, Matty’s husband.
In real life, though, the actor has been married to Barbara Ann Hancock since 1985, per his IMDb. They are the parents of two children.
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Beau Bridges and Wendy Treece
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Wendy Treece Bridges and Beau Bridges attend the Warner Bros. & HBOMax Holiday Movies Event on November 16, 2022 in Burbank, California.
Bridges plays Howard, a.k.a. Senior, the managing partner of the law firm that hires Matty. Senior is also the father of Julian, Ritter’s character.
Bridges married Wendy Treece on April 10, 1984.
In February 2023, he posted a sweet tribute to his wife on Instagram, sharing an image of them at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in 2022.
“44 years with my girl,” he captioned it.
The couple share three children: Dylan, Ezekiel and Emily. He was formerly married to Julie Landfield, with whom he welcomed two sons.
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Yael Grobglas and Artem Kroupenev
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Yael Grobglas and Artem Kroupenev attend the Entertainment Weekly and People New York Upfronts Celebration on May 16, 2016 in New York City.
Grobglas portrays Shae Banfield, a jury consultant who also goes by the nickname “The Meerkat.”
The Jane the Virgin alum is married to Artem Kroupenev, and the pair keep their romance under wraps. Still, for Valentine’s Day 2018, Grobglas dedicated a sweet Instagram post to her husband.
“I’m not a fan of gushing on social media, but this funny man has had my back for 13 years now and although I believe ‘I love you’s should be a private matter, today I think I’ll make one public,” she wrote.
Grobglas continued, “I love you Artem. You’re my man. You’re the best man. Let’s keep on laughing.”
In January 2020, the actress announced the birth of their daughter, Arielle, with a funny, candid post.
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Andrea Londo and Greg Bekkers
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Andrea Londo attends NALIP’s 25th Anniversary Red Carpet Celebration on June 28, 2024 in Hollywood, California.
Londo plays Simone, who went to law school with Sarah and recently joined Jacobson Moore as a junior associate.
Away from the cameras, Londo and her husband, Greg Bekkers, met thanks to “a fateful swipe right in 2019,” she told PEOPLE.
Three years later, in 2022, Bekkers proposed to Londo while they were on a road trip through Arizona and Utah.
The couple wed on June 15, 2024, in Saint-Félix-de-Pallières, France.
Speaking to PEOPLE the following month, Londo explained that marriage is “having your favorite human by your side as you navigate life’s ups and downs.”
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