Michelle Randolph is a 28-year-old American actress and model from California, Glen Powell's girlfriend, the woman who plays Ainsley Norris on Landman on Paramount+, and someone who has made it consistently clear that she did not build her career in order to be discussed primarily as someone's plus one.
Michelle Randolph was born September 11, 1997, in Walnut Creek, California, graduated from Arizona State University in 2023 with a degree in Film and Media Studies, and has spent the last several years carving out a real acting foothold in Taylor Sheridan's universe, first in 1923 alongside Harrison Ford, then as a series regular in Landman opposite Billy Bob Thornton and Demi Moore. Her upcoming film Scream 7 marks her first franchise horror role. The Glen Powell relationship became public in late 2025, but the résumé that put her in rooms with those names was built before anyone was searching for her.
Who Is Michelle Randolph? California Roots and the Road to Hollywood
Michelle Randolph grew up in two California cities, Walnut Creek in the north and Huntington Beach in the south, where her family moved when she was sixteen. Michelle Randolph is the middle child of three siblings. Her father, Matt Randolph, works in marketing. Her mother, Amy McCleary, was the steady presence behind the household as all three Randolph children found their individual paths.
Her older sister, Cassie Randolph, is the more publicly recognizable name in the family. She won Season 23 of The Bachelor in 2019, but Michelle's trajectory, quieter and less broadcast-ready, has ultimately landed her in higher-prestige territory than reality television could have offered. Her younger brother, Landon Randolph, works in business. The siblings are close, and Michelle and Cassie co-founded a denim brand called LNDN Denim at one point, pulling from both their public profiles to build something commercial outside of their individual careers.
Michelle attended Arizona State University, graduating in 2023 with a Film and Media Studies degree, not theater, not performance, but the theoretical and production side of the industry. That educational background informs something observable in her interviews: she talks about storytelling with the vocabulary of someone who studied it, not just someone who wandered in front of a camera and got lucky.
Before acting took over, Michelle Randolph was a working model. She signed with Wilhelmina Models, the same agency where Sam Dezz is also represented, and modeled for brands including Forever 21 and Stitch Fix, building a platform on Michelle Randolph on Instagram that has now become a genuine industry asset. Her early modeling features appeared in Bl!sss Magazine, and she was also represented by Lane Management alongside the Wilhelmina contract.
Michelle Randolph's Actress Career, Landman, 1923, and Scream 7
Michelle Randolph's acting career is organized almost entirely around one creative relationship: Taylor Sheridan, the writer and producer behind Yellowstone, 1923, and Landman. Getting into Sheridan's ecosystem is not incidental; it requires a specific type of presence that reads naturally in wide-open American landscapes and holds weight in scenes built around emotional restraint and physical authority. Michelle has now done it twice.
Michelle Randolph's first significant role in the Sheridan universe was in 1923, the Yellowstone prequel series on Paramount+ starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren as patriarch and matriarch of the Dutton family in the early 20th century. She played Elizabeth Strafford. The series launched in late 2022 and drew massive viewership as Sheridan expanded his television empire across Paramount+ properties. Being cast in that environment, at that scale, as a first major TV credit is the kind of positioning that makes casting directors remember your name.
Then came Landman on Paramount+ in 2024, a contemporary drama co-created by Sheridan based on the West Texas oil industry and its cost to the people working it. Michelle plays Ainsley Norris, the daughter of Tommy Norris, Tommy being the series' central character, played by Billy Bob Thornton. The Ainsley role is not a supporting afterthought. She is smart, willful, and caught between loyalty to a father whose world she admires and personal ambitions that do not fit neatly inside it. Playing the daughter of a Billy Bob Thornton character requires holding your own against an actor who has 40 years of craft behind every line reading. Michelle has done that without the scenes becoming imbalanced.
The role gave her the platform to be included in Taylor Sheridan's next Landman season and cemented her as a recurring presence in the Sheridan stable. In an interview with Bustle in early 2026, Michelle described the pull of that world: "I think my personal life is so separate than my work life. And I understand that my job is something public, and I've chosen that... but I just think for my peace of mind, I just try to keep those things as separate as possible."
The third pillar of Michelle Randolph's 2026 profile is Scream 7, in which she appears as a new cast member, her first franchise horror film and her clearest departure from the Sheridan landscape. The Scream franchise has a specific history of introducing young actresses at the point where their careers need the kind of mainstream visibility that prestigious streaming drama does not always generate. Michelle takes that step from a stronger position than most newcomers to the franchise have had.
Alongside those three major credits, her filmography includes House of the Witch (2017), A Snow White Christmas (2018), 5 Years Apart (2019), The Resort (2021), and The Throwback (2024).
Glen Powell Girlfriend, How Michelle Randolph and Glen Powell Started Dating
Glen Powell and Michelle Randolph began dating, according to sources who spoke to People and Us Weekly, around October 2025. The way it started was not through an industry introduction, they met through Powell's sister, who is a friend of Michelle's. That detail matters because it changes the shape of the story. This was not a set-up, not a co-star chemistry overspill, not a PR-adjacent celebrity connection. Two people who already shared social circles eventually found each other through the most ordinary mechanism available.
The first time the public caught on was November 19, 2025, when Glen Powell hosted Saturday Night Live for the first time. A group photo shared by his longtime friend and actor Chord Overstreet included Michelle alongside several others. Nobody made a formal announcement. The photo existed, and people noticed.
Four days later, the clearer signal arrived. On November 23, a local college student in Austin posted a TikTok from Broken Spoke, a genuine Texas dance hall where Powell has spent time since relocating from Los Angeles to his hometown of Austin in 2024, showing Powell and Michelle dancing close together. The student noted in the comments that both were super sweet. An Us Weekly source described the relationship at that point as casually seeing each other and noted they had started seeing each other about two months prior, making October the actual starting point.
December accelerated the public visibility. On December 13, they attended a Los Angeles event for the F1 movie together, the first official public photo of them side by side. Two weeks later, they left Miami's 1 Hotel South Beach together, flew to St. Barts, and celebrated New Year's Eve on a yacht with Glen's extensive social circle, which included Miles Teller and his wife Keleigh Teller, Nina Dobrev, Glen's ex, who dated him briefly in 2017, Chord Overstreet, and influencer Alix Earle. Page Six described their dynamic on New Year's Eve as very, very into each other, with the couple described as moving fast.
January 11, 2026 was the milestone moment that most publicly validated the relationship's seriousness. Glen Powell attended the 2026 Golden Globe Awards with his parents, Cyndy and Glen Powell Sr., as his nominated companion, he was up for Best Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy for Chad Powers. After the ceremony, the three Powells met Michelle. They were photographed getting into the same car together heading to an after-party. Glen's mother and Michelle were seen laughing together through the evening. For a relationship that had been called casual and "low-key in November, being folded into the family at one of the most public Hollywood nights of the calendar year told its own story.
By March 8, 2026, they were photographed holding hands in New York City, the most unambiguous signal available, three months after the Austin dance hall footage first circulated.
Through all of it, Michelle has given the same answer when asked directly. In InStyle, she said she keeps her personal life separate for peace of mind, adding that how people perceive someone publicly is not who that person is. In Bustle, she doubled down on that framing. None of this is evasion, it is a consistent position held by someone who built an acting career on the strength of her work and does not intend to hand the narrative of that career over to relationship coverage. The position is worth respecting on those terms.
Glen Powell in 2026, The Career Context Behind the Relationship
Glen Powell is 37 years old, born October 21, 1988, in Austin, Texas, where he was raised by Cyndy and Glen Powell Sr. alongside older sister Lauren and younger sister Leslie. He attended Westwood High School, played football and lacrosse, enrolled at the University of Texas at Austin, dropped out after one year, moved to Los Angeles, and built one of the more interesting careers in contemporary Hollywood over two decades.
His current position in the industry was earned incrementally. Early supporting work in The Dark Knight Rises (2012), The Expendables 3 (2014), Scream Queens (2015, 2016), Hidden Figures (2016), and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) gave him range before he had the profile to get leads. Top Gun: Maverick in 2022 changed the scale of what was available to him, the film made $1.5 billion worldwide and turned his Hangman" character from a supporting antagonist into a cultural type. He had actually pushed back on the role's original size; Tom Cruise listened to his notes and had the character rewritten.
Anyone But You (2023) with Sydney Sweeney made $220 million on what appeared to be a modest budget and revived the studio romantic comedy as a commercially viable form. Hit Man (2023), which he co-wrote and produced with Richard Linklater, showed a comedic sharpness that pure action-star parts do not always illuminate. Twisters (2024) made $372 million. Chad Powers (2025) earned him a Golden Globes nomination. In January 2025, he formed Glen Powell's production company Barnstorm with a first-look deal at Universal Pictures.
He is also, since 2024, working toward his degree at the University of Texas at Austin, enrolled in the Radio-Television-Film program at the Moody College of Communication, taking classes over Zoom, with a projected graduation in May 2027. A licensed pilot, a Texas Longhorns superfan, a dog owner (the terrier-poodle mix named Brisket who appeared in Chad Powers), and someone who has spoken consistently about preferring Austin to Los Angeles, he came home, stayed, and the career followed him there.
Upcoming projects include Chad Powers Season 2 (Hulu, late 2026), a Judd Apatow comedy with Madelyn Cline and Cristin Milioti (which Powell also co-wrote), The Great Beyond directed by J.J. Abrams opposite Jenna Ortega (November 2026), a Ron Howard firefighter film, and The Natural Order directed by Barry Jenkins. Top Gun 3 is in development.
Among 2026 couples where one person arrived already established and the other arrived via a quieter path, the dynamic is not uncommon. Henry Smith became publicly known as Madelyn Cline's boyfriend before his own profile as a TikToker and renewable energy professional became the story. Simone Henault had been a working DJ and Google producer for years before being identified as Chris Rock's girlfriend. In both cases, the initial coverage eventually gave way to coverage of what the person actually does. For Michelle Randolph, that transition is already in motion; her name brings up Landman and Scream 7 alongside Glen Powell's name, which is exactly how she has said she wants it.
Michelle Randolph Net Worth and Previous Relationships
Michelle Randolph's net worth in 2026 sits between an estimated $1 million and $2 million, built from acting salaries across 1923 and Landman, both of which are high-budget premium television series, her Wilhelmina modeling contracts, brand endorsements, and social media partnerships. That figure will rise as Scream 7 reaches theatrical release and her Taylor Sheridan relationship continues generating roles. For a working actress who graduated from university in 2023, the trajectory is strong.
Before Glen Powell, Michelle dated British actor Gregg Sulkin for five years. They went Instagram official in October 2018 and separated in 2023, making it one of the longer, steadier relationships in her peer group. Prior to Sulkin, she dated professional surfer Koa Rothman. Powell's previous public relationships included Nina Dobrev (2017), Australian television host Renee Bargh, and model Gigi Paris, from whom he split in April 2023.
At 5 feet 6 inches tall with what has been described as "newborn gray" eyes and medium blonde hair, Michelle brings a presence to red carpets that reads as both effortless and deliberate, the particular combination that a decade of modeling teaches before acting takes over. She is 28. She graduated from university in 2023 and has already landed two major Taylor Sheridan series. In a landscape where most people at her stage of a career are still waiting for the first serious break, she has already had two.
Michelle Randolph, Key Facts
| Detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Full name | Michelle Randolph |
| Born | September 11, 1997, Walnut Creek, California |
| Age | 28 |
| Raised | Walnut Creek + Huntington Beach, California |
| Education | Arizona State University, Film and Media Studies (graduated 2023) |
| Height | 5 feet 6 inches (168 cm) |
| Father | Matt Randolph, marketing |
| Mother | Amy McCleary |
| Sister | Cassie Randolph, won The Bachelor Season 23 |
| Brother | Landon Randolph, businessman |
| Modeling | Wilhelmina Models + Lane Management; Forever 21, Stitch Fix campaigns |
| Key roles | Elizabeth Strafford, 1923 (Paramount+, 2022); Ainsley Norris, Landman (Paramount+, 2024, present) |
| Upcoming | Scream 7 (2026); Landman Season 2 |
| Boyfriend | Glen Powell, dating since approximately October 2025 |
| Met through | Glen Powell's sister, who is friends with Michelle |
| Previous relationships | Gregg Sulkin (2018-2023); Koa Rothman |
| Net worth (2026) | Estimated $1M, $2M |
| @michellerandolph |
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is Glen Powell's girlfriend?
Glen Powell's girlfriend is Michelle Randolph, a 28-year-old actress and model from California best known for playing Ainsley Norris in Landman on Paramount+ and Elizabeth Strafford in 1923. They began dating around October 2025 after meeting through Powell's sister. The relationship became publicly visible in November 2025 when footage from a Texas dance hall appeared on TikTok.
Q: How did Glen Powell and Michelle Randolph meet?
They met through Powell's sister, who is friends with Michelle Randolph. A source confirmed the connection to People in late 2025. Their first documented public appearance together was at a Saturday Night Live group photo on November 19, 2025, followed by footage from Austin's Broken Spoke dance hall days later.
Q: What has Michelle Randolph been in?
She has appeared in 1923 (2022, Paramount+), where she played Elizabeth Strafford in the Yellowstone prequel series starring Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren. She then joined Landman (2024, Paramount+) as Ainsley Norris, the daughter of Billy Bob Thornton's character. Her upcoming credits include Scream 7 (2026), marking her entry into franchise horror.
Q: What is Michelle Randolph's net worth?
Michelle Randolph's net worth in 2026 is estimated at between $1 million and $2 million. Her income comes from acting salaries on 1923 and Landman, both high-budget premium productions, along with her modeling contracts with Wilhelmina Models, brand endorsements, and social media partnerships.
Q: Is Glen Powell still dating Michelle Randolph in 2026?
Yes. As of April 2026, Glen Powell and Michelle Randolph are confirmed to be in a relationship. They were photographed holding hands in New York City on March 8, 2026, attended the Golden Globe after-parties together in January with Powell's parents, and spent New Year's in St. Barts with a mutual friend group. Neither has made a formal relationship announcement, but both have been consistently photographed together since November 2025.
Q: Who is Michelle Randolph's sister?
Randolph's older sister is Cassie Randolph, who won Season 23 of The Bachelor in 2019. The sisters have a close relationship and co-founded a denim brand called LNDN Denim together.