Revolution comes to Fraser’s Ridge in Outlander season 6, and a new cast of characters joins Claire and Jamie’s story. Based on author Diana Gabaldon’s best-selling Outlander series, the upcoming season is based on the series’ sixth book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes. Although Outlander season 6 only has eight episodes, the season is filled with plenty more time-traveling adventures. Recent seasons of Outlander have seen Claire and Jamie cross the Atlantic to settle in America, establishing their homestead, Fraser’s Ridge, in North Carolina.

Outlander tells the story of Claire, a World War II nurse on holiday in Scotland with her husband, Frank in 1945. While visiting the stone circle, Craigh Na Dun, Claire is magically transported back to the year 1743, where she meets and falls in love with Jamie Fraser. When Claire finally has a chance to return to her time, she finds she cannot leave Jamie and stays until the Battle of Culloden threatens her and the couple’s unborn child. Claire returns to the future long enough to raise their daughter, Brianna, then time-travels back to Jamie, followed soon after by both Brianna and Brianna’s boyfriend, Roger.

Caitriona Balfe As Claire Fraser (née Randall)

Caitriona Balfe plays time-traveling nurse, Claire Randall Fraser. Claire and Jamie work hard to build their homestead on Fraser’s Ridge throughout Outlander season 5, including Claire’s surgery. Taking on the pseudonym Dr. Rawlings, Claire brings medical information from the future to 18th-century North Carolina, much to her peril. When Lionel Brown discovers her alter-ego, he and a band of other settlers kidnap Claire, and she suffers several attacks on her person and spirit before Jamie arrives to rescue her.

Outlander season 6 sees Claire’s character back at Fraser’s Ridge, beginning the long journey to recovery while preparing for the future only she truly knows: the onset of the American Revolution. While she and her family are trying to adjust to life in a colony on the brink of war, however, Claire is framed for murder

Though Balfe is best known for her role as Outlander’s Claire Fraser, she also starred in the Oscar-nominated Belfast. Her role as Ma opposite 50 Shades of Grey’s Jamie Dornan led to multiple awards and nominations, including Best Supporting Actress nominations at the SAG, Golden Globes, and BAFTA. She was also seen in 2019’s Ford v Ferrari with Christian Bale and Matt Damon.

Sam Heughan As Jamie Fraser

The Outlander season 6 cast would not be complete without Jamie Fraser, the Scottish Highlander who steals Claire’s heart in 1743, played by Sam Heughan. Jamie spent Outlander season 5 torn between fulfilling his obligation to Governor Tryon in exchange for the massive acreage for Fraser’s Ridge and trying to protect his life-long friend, Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix of Vikings), leader of the Regulators.

After Claire’s kidnappers are massacred by Jamie and his clan in the season 5 finale (and Marsali finishes off Lionel Brown), Lionel Brown’s brother, Richard, is positioned to become (one of) Jamie’s foes in Outlander season 6. Of course, Jamie also has new challenges in season 6 as an “Indian Agent” and then in season 7 as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Sam Heughan also stars in Starz’s Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham with fellow Outlander actor, Graham McTavish (McTavish played Dougal MacKenzie).

Sophie Skelton As Brianna Randall Fraser Mackenzie

Sophie Skelton plays Brianna (Bree), the daughter of Claire and Jaime who was raised by Claire and her late-husband from the future, Frank. After her mother returns to the past to live with Jamie, Bree follows her and is attacked by Stephen Bonnet (Downton Abbey’s Ed Speleers) after her arrival in the 18th century. Outlander season 5 finally sees justice served for Brianna. Bree, Roger, and Jemmy all attempted to return to their time in season 5, but they were unsuccessful, returning to Fraser’s Ridge, renewed in their love for their home and family.

Brianna and Roger, do, however, eventually have to find a way to travel forward in time when their child’s health is at risk. In season 7 they end up in the farthest future of the timeline the show has deigned to explore yet – the 1980s. While there, however, they still maintain a connection to their pasts.

Outside of Outlander, Sophie Skelton has primarily appeared in one-off episodes of different television series. Outlander may very well end up being her true breakout role.

Richard Rankin As Roger Wakefield Mackenzie

Adopted son of Reverend Wakefield, Roger (Richard Rankin) is biologically an heir of the Mackenzie clan, a distant descendant born of the affair between Dougal MacKenzie and time-traveler Geillis Duncan. Roger falls in love with Bree and follows her back in time (thanks to Geillis’ time-travel gene) where they build a life together with Claire and Jamie.

Outlander season 5 began with Roger and Bree’s wedding and ended with Roger, previously a gentle, bookish character, participating in the massacre in order to save Claire—a choice that has an effect on his Outlander season 6 character. When he and Brianna end up in the future in season 7, it is Roger who researches time travel while Brianna maintains their modern-day lives.

Before becoming an Outlander mainstay, Rankin appeared in the essential British mystery series Midsomer Murders among other TV projects. He is also an accomplished theater performer, appearing in the televised version of The Tragedy Of Macbeth in 2023.

Lauren Lyle As Marsali

Lauren Lyle’s Marsali is the wife of Fergus and daughter of Laoghaire MacKenzie—Jamie’s wife while Claire was in the future raising Bree. Though she is not Jamie’s biological daughter, she looks at him as a father figure and eventually warms to Claire after Claire returns to the 18th century. Marsali is strong-willed and acts as Claire’s apprentice in her medical practice. The Outlander season 5 finale saw Marsali kill Lionel Brown, his murder leaving her terrified that she is now damned in the eyes of God.

While Marsali gives birth to a boy in season 6 of the series, she doesn’t return in season 7 of the show. Unfortunately, Lyle had other obligations and couldn’t reprise the role. One of those commitments is the series Karen Pirie, in which she stars as the title character. Lyle is known for her performances in 2021’s Vigil and Tell It to the Bees.

César Domboy As Fergus

The lovable and loyal Fergus is played by César Domboy. Born in a brothel and raised without parents, Claudel (Fergus) is a pickpocket that Jamie takes under his wing during Jamie and Claire’s time in Paris. Jamie recognizes Claudel’s loyalty and he and Claire adopt Claudel, changing his name to Fergus Fraser. Fergus accompanies Claire and Jamie to America and brings along Marsali, whom he weds on their journey in the West Indies.

Domboy played Guy de Leval in Borgia and is in the upcoming miniseries SAS: Rogue Heroes with Jack O’Connell, Dominic West, and Game of Thrones’ Alfie Allen. With Lyle unavailable to reprise her role in season 7, Domboy also doesn’t appear as Fergus, though he did spend time away from Outlander working on the series Rogue Heroes. Both actors are expected to appear in season 8 of the show.

John Bell As Ian

The Outlander season 6 cast sees the return of Jamie’s nephew, Ian (a.k.a Young Ian and Cousin Ian), who has had a dramatic storyline throughout the series. Played by John Bell, Ian is the son of Jamie’s sister, Jenny. Ian’s adventurous spirit brings him to America with Jamie and Claire, only to have him offer himself to the Mohawk Tribe shortly thereafter to save Roger.

When he returns to Fraser’s Ridge in season 5, he has lost his beloved wife, but mystery still surrounds his time with the Mohawk and how his wife died. Some of that mystery is unraveled in season 6. In season 7, Ian is one of the people by Jamie’s side when Claire is framed for murder.

John Bell began his acting career in 2007 with a role in the legendary Doctor Who and has acted in many acclaimed films and series like 2012’s Hatfields & McCoys and The Hobbit movies. Though his work has been focused on Outlander since joining the cast, he also appeared in the epic series Into The Badlands.

Mark Lewis Jones, Alexander Vlahos, Jessica Reynolds As The Christie Family

Tom Christie (Mark Lewis Jones) returns to the Outlander season 6 cast with his family seeking to settle on Fraser’s Ridge. He comes with his son, Allan (Alexander Vlahos), and daughter Malva (Jessica Reynolds), and their arrival brings tension to the settlement. Malva initially forms a deep bond with Claire and seems destined to become Claire’s apprentice in Outlander season 6, matching Claire’s strong will and forward-thinking.

Malva, however, betrays Claire when she insists Jamie is the father of her unborn child, but he isn’t. Tragedy strikes the Christie family at the end of the season, however, when Malva is murdered and Claire is framed for her death. The cliffhanger leads into season 7 where Claire must find a way to escape a wrongful conviction.

Mark Lewis Jones had a prolific on-screen career before Outlander, but most recently, he appeared in the Netflix projects Bodies and Baby Reindeer. Outlander fans will recognize Alexander Vlahos in the recent Netflix rom-com Irish Wish. Jessica Reynolds appeared in an episode of Derry Girls and the 2024 Irish movie Kneecap.

Outlander Season 6 Supporting Characters

Andrew Gower will be reprising his role as the “Bonny Prince,” Prince Charles Edward Stuart, among the Outlander season 6 cast, as will actor Jack Tarlton as Kenny Lindsay, and Caitlin O’Ryan as Lizzie Wemyss. Richard Brown (Chris Larkin) and the rest of the Brown family also appear as supporting players in Outlander season 6, who cause tension with the Fraser family thanks to their “Committee of Safety.” It’s the very committee that places Claire in danger when they decide to arrest her for a murder she didn’t commit.

Most of the main cast of Outlander and the supporting cast of Outlander season 6 carry over into season 7 of the series. The focus in season 7 becomes firmly on the American Revolution in the first batch of episodes, as characters actually engage in battle. The second set of episodes of season 7 is set to air in 2024. Outlander has been renewed for season 8, which is expected to be the show’s last.