Who is Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan’s wife Nicole Muirbrook? The real-life cowgirl and ‘tomboy at heart’ was also a model and actress who appeared in How I Met Your Mother and Dark Blue

Dec 5 , 2024

Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan (left) is married to a real-life cowgirl, Nicole Muirbrook. Photos: @nicsheridanofficial/Instagram

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of hit show Yellowstone, is married to a bona fide cowgirl named Nicole Sheridan who’s also dabbled in modelling and acting – here’s what you need to know about her

Yellowstone, the hit series created by Taylor Sheridan, has kept fans captivated since 2018. And though – spoiler alert – the season 5, part 2 premiere sparked outrage at the death of Kevin Costner’s beloved character John Dutton, director Christina Voros told The Hollywood Reporter that such outrage “is the point”.

Costner revealed to E! News that he pitched the ending himself, leaving Sheridan to fine-tune the details.

With the Dutton patriarch gone for good, the central conflict for the remainder of the epic Western saga looks set to be between Jamie Dutton, played by Wes Bentley, and Kelly Reilly’s Beth Dutton. What happens next is for Sheridan to know and us to find out.

Taylor Sheridan (left) and Nicole Muirbrook have been married for over a decade. Photo: @nicsheridanofficial/Instagram

In the meantime, he has been celebrating with his wife Nicole Muirbrook, 41, after being inducted into the Texas Business Hall of Fame. A recent post on Muirbrook’s Instagram about the event came with the caption, “A night to remember”.

Sheridan – who has also appeared on screen as an actor in Yellowstone and its prequel 1883, as well as Sons of Anarchy and Veronica Mars – credits his marriage to Muirbrook and their son Gus with his success. “I think the thing that really changed my perspective on my career was getting married and having a child … And then, really thinking about how I am going to raise that child. And if that child is going to look up to me, what is he looking up to me for?” the 54-year-old shared in a 2020 interview with US publication Cowboys & Indians.

So, who is Taylor Sheridan’s cigar-loving wife Nicole Muirbrook?

She’s a bona fide cowgirl

Nicole Muirbrook grew up riding horses on her grandparents’ ranch. Photo: @nicsheridanofficial/Instagram

Nicole Muirbrook was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, by her German mother and Mexican-Lebanese father. According to People magazine, she spent a lot of her childhood at a ranch in Wyoming that was owned by her grandparents. The mother of one began riding horses at a young age and now professionally competes in cutting competitions, where horses and their riders demonstrate their ability to herd cattle.

Muirbrook is a proud board member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, and was one of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame inductees in 2020.