Meet the New Cast of Netflix's 'Beef' Season 2: Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan Star

Hungry for more Beef? Luckily for fans of the Netflix dark comedy, the Lee Sung Jin-created anthology series will soon welcome a second season with an entirely new plot and a new cast to match.

Premiering all eight 30-minute episodes on Thursday, April 16, Beef season 2 will follow up its Emmy-winning first season by following two very different couples — millennial duo Josh and Lindsay (played by Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan), who run a local country club, and Gen Z pair Austin and Ashley (Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny), two of the club's lower-level staffers — who get unexpectedly entangled in each other's relationships.

 “Season 1’s beef is so overt and aggressive. I thought Season 2 should be the inverse: a passive-aggressive beef, which is more true to life, especially in a workplace,” Lee told Netflix Tudum about the characters' conflict, adding: “We thought, ‘What if we actually made them a little bit closer in age and highlight that generational divide?’”

Ahead of the dramedy's premiere, let's take a bite out of the starry cast of Beef season 2.

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Beef Season 2 cast

Beef casts Oscar Isaac as the general manager of a country club, who faces off against his wife (Carey Mulligan) in a messy marital spat.Photo by Axelle&solBauer-Griffin&solFilmMagic

Oscar Isaac

In Beef season 2, Golden Globe winner Oscar Isaac plays Josh Martín, the general manager of a country club and husband to Carey Mulligan’s character. Much of the new eps center on a colossal fight between the couple, on which the Guatemalan-born star told Deadline he and his scene partner worked heavily to ensure its realistic tension: “We did improvisations, we did rehearsals where we taped out the thing, almost like a theater play.”

Now one of Hollywood’s most versatile leading men, the 47-year-old had his breakthrough as a Bob Dylan-esque beatnik in the 2013 musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis. In the decade-plus since, he’s had memorable roles in films like A Most Violent Year (2014), Ex Machina (2015), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) and last year’s Frankenstein on Netflix. Isaac is arguably best-known for his roles in two major sci-fi franchises: as Poe Dameron in the Star Wars sequel trilogy (2015–2019) and as Leto Atreides in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune films. 

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English actress Carey Mulligan co-leads the new installment of Beef opposite her Inside Llewyn Davis buddy Oscar Isaac. MICHAEL TRAN&solGetty Images

Carey Mulligan

Three-time Oscar nominee Carey Mulligan stars opposite Oscar Isaac as Lindsay Crane-Martín, whose marital spat serves as the inciting incident of the season. “What was important to us, I think, was that they really do love each other and when they meet, they were as annoying… they really had like that obsessive, sort of, gorgeous, first-flush thing,” Mulligan said of the couple, per Extra. “They had that real romantic history and they’ve been together for a really long time, but I think you’re meeting them at their worst.”

Since her film debut in 2005’s Pride & Prejudice, the 40-year-old Brit has starred in 2009’s An Education(for which she won the BAFTA), 2011’s Drive and Shame, 2013’s The Great Gatsby, 2020's Promising Young Woman, 2023’s Maestro and last year’s The Ballad of Wallis Island.Beef marks an onscreen reunion between Mulligan and her Inside Llewyn Davis costar Oscar Isaac.

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Charles Melton has joined the Beef season 2 cast as an aspiring personal trainer who gets involved in his boss's marital dispute. Photo by Christopher Polk on Getty Images

Charles Melton

May December actor Charles Melton stars as Austin Davis, an aspiring personal trainer and one half of the younger couple with whom Isaac and Milligan’s characters have their titular beef. In his recent Men’s Health cover story, the 35-year-old praised Beef and its creator Lee Sung Jin for leaning “into the cringe of humanity.”

Prior to joining Beef, the Alaska-born, Kansas-raised heartthrob saw success as a model before his acting breakout as Reggie Mantle in the CW teen drama Riverdale in 2017. He made his feature film debut two years later leading The Sun Is Also a Star; fellow big-screen credits include the 2025 A24 drama Warfare and upcoming 2026 titles Her Private Hell and Saturn Return. 

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Priscilla performer Cailee Spaeny is partnered up with Charles Melton as a young, engaged couple in Beef. Alberto E&period Rodriguez&solGetty Images

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Cailee Spaeny

Cailee Spaeny plays the other half of Beef’s Gen Z duo, playing Austin's fiancée Ashley Miller. As for joining the acclaimed anthology series for its second season, the performer excitedly told Entertainment Weekly: "I cannot wait. I love that show so much and it's such brilliant writing. I am so excited to jump in."

On the silver screen, the 27-year-old actress is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated turn as Priscilla Presley in the bio-drama Priscilla; her other film credits include the sci-fi flick Pacific Rim Uprising, the neo-noir film Bad Times at the El Royale, the dystopian drama Civil War and the Alien sequel Alien: Romulus. On the small screen, Spaeny starred in high-profile miniseries such as Devs and Mare of Easttown. 

Youn Yuh-Jung rounds out the Beef main cast as a billionaire country-club chairwoman. Olivia Wong&solWireImage

Youn Yuh-jung 

The great South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung portrays Chairwoman Park, the billionaire chairwoman of Josh's country club, in Beef season 2. 

With a career spanning six decades, the 78-year-old was already a storied star in her mother country thanks to her breakout turn in Woman of Fire (1971) and iconic roles like The Housemaid (2010), The Bacchus Lady (2016) and The Taste of Money (2012), but she rose to international acclaim for her role in the 2020 familial drama Minari. Youn made industry history with her acclaimed performance, becoming the first Korean actress to win a Screen Actors Guild Award, an Independent Spirit Award, a BAFTA and an Academy Award, all for Best Supporting Actress.

Character actor William Fichtner recurs as a wealthy country-club member in the second season of Netflix's Beef. Santiago Felipe&solGetty Images

William Fichtner

William Fichtner recurs in Beef season 2 as Troy, a wealthy member of the country club that Josh manages. A prolific character actor, the 69-year-old New Yorker has popped up in everything from disaster flicks like Armageddon and The Perfect Storm to crime dramas like Go and Crash to superheromovies like The Dark Knight and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. As for TV, Fichtner appeared in the CBSsitcomMom from 2015 to 2021.

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One Piece star Mikaela Hoover appears as a trophy wife in the Netflix anthology Beef. JB Lacroix&solWireImage

Mikaela Hoover

Mikaela Hoover is paired up with William Fichtner as Troy's trophy wife Ava in the second installment of Beef. The 41-year-old actress is a regular of James Gunn's movies including Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), The Suicide Squad (2021) and Superman (2025). Beef marks Hoover's second big Netflix project of 2026: She also voices and does the face capture for Tony Tony Chopper in season two of the streamer's live-action One Piece adaptation.

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Rapper Matthew "BM" Kim will make his acting debut in Beef season 2.Axelle&solBauer-Griffin&solFilmMagic

Matthew "BM" Kim

South Korean rapper Matthew Kim, known by the stage name BM, plays Woosh, a former tennis pro running the tennis shop at the country club. Beef marks the musician's acting debut.

The cast of Beef attends the season 2 world premiere at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood on April 08, 2026, in Los Angeles, California.Gonzalo Marroquin&solGetty Images

Who was in the cast of Beef season 1?

The first season of Netflix's Beef was led by Steven Yeun as Danny Cho andAli Wong as Amy Lau, as two parties in a road rage incident. They were joined by George Nakai as Amy's husband George, Patti Yasutake as George's mother Fumi, Young Mazino as Danny's younger brother Paul and David Choe as Danny's cousin. Maria Bello, Ashley Park, Mia Serafino, Remy Holt, Justin H. Min and Andrew Santino also appear in a recurring capacity.

Who is not returning for Beef season 2?

Because Beef is an anthology series, the storyline and subsequent cast of each installment change up with each season. That means that the main cast from season one, including leads Steven Yeun and Ali Wong, are not reprising their roles in season two; however, both actors remain signed on as executive producers on the project. As mentioned, the second season will see an entirely new plotline and cast, led by Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan.

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This story was originally published by Parade on Apr 15, 2026, where it first appeared in the TV section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

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