Throughout the first season of Dutton Ranch, I’ve had the passive belief that Beulah Jackson’s granddaughter Oreana was a scheming and dreaming teenager with only the slightest of age gaps between her and Finn Little’s Carter. I guess I hadn’t put that much thought into it, but her living situation and general behavior were enough to convince me that she was still too young to buy alcohol. Boy, was I wrong.
Season 1 set to potentially get deadly with its finale when it hits the 2026 TV schedule, but before all that, co-star Natalie Alyn Lind is amassing her own body count by shooting down any and all misguided understandings about how hold Oreana is, and how much older she actually is than Rip and Beth’s woeful ward. Speaking with People, the 26-year-old Lind addressed the confusion and cleared it all up, saying:
