Inside Yellowstone mastermind Taylor Sheridans rise and Kevin Costner feud

He’s a lone rider. Taylor Sheridan, the mastermind behind “Yellowstone” and nearly a dozen other shows, was a relative unknown before the ranch drama became a hit. Now, he’s a Hollywood force.As “Yellowstone” nears its end (the second half of Season 5 premieres Sunday, Nov.

10 at 8 p.m.on Paramount), Sheridan has become embroiled in drama that nearly overshadows his work. Here’s everything to know about the prolific cowboy TV creator and producer.

Taylor Sheridan, 54, was born in North Carolina and grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. “I grew up in the shadow of the Four Sixes,” he told The Hollywood Reporter in 2023, referring to an iconic ranch that’s famous in cowboy circles.It was controlled by a family dynasty for over a century. “To just get one of their horses was a status symbol, because they’re so well trained,” he explained.

“This was the ranch I based [‘Yellowstone’s’] scope and operation on, because it didn’t exist in Montana.Most ranches there had already been carved up.

They’d already lost it.”Since 2022, Sheridan himself has owned that iconic ranch.Per the Austin American Statesman, Sheridan buying the 266,000-acre property marked its first-ever purchase since its founding in 1870.Sheridan moved to the west after marrying his wife, actress Nicole Muirbrook, 41, in 2013. “I left LA the second I could get out,” he told Cowboys & Indians Magazine in 2020.“My wife’s from up in Wyoming, and my mother lives up there, so we moved there for a number of years, until I finally convinced her to come try my home state,” he added. Sheridan started in Hollywood as an actor, appearing in shows like “Veronica Mars” and “Sons of Anarchy.”“I was a fair actor, but that’s all I was ever going to be,” Sheridan told THR.

“But the first thing I ever wrote [the pilot for ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ in 2011] got me meetings at every major network, at every agency.I had multiple people trying to buy it.�...