The 2025 HBO Max classic crime thriller series Duster season 1 trailer, the new series is set to be a highly stylized throwback to the '70s with Jim as the lead protagonist. The official logline reads that Jim's life will go "from awful to wildly, stupidly, dangerously awful" throughout the course of the 8-part season.

Created by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan, Duster takes place in 1970s Phoenix, Arizona, where Jim drives an orange Plymouth Duster, a discontinued American muscle car that inspired the show's name. Jim works for a prominent figure in Phoenix's criminal underworld named Ezra Saxon, who has a history with both Jim's father, played by Corbin Bernsen, and his brother, Joey. Jim's an honest guy trying to make a living, but is drawn into a potential FBI conspiracy by an eager new agent named Nina Hayes (Rachel Hilson). Duster episode 1 premieres at 9 PM on Thursday, May 15, 2025.

Josh Holloway as Jim Ellis

DOB: July 20, 1969

• Active Since: 1993

Actor: Holloway is an American actor born in San Jose, California and raised in Free Home, Georgia. His first TV credit was as "Good Looking Guy" in a 1999 episode of Angel. He rose to prominence and first worked with Abrams on the hit ABC show Lost, which first aired in 2004. Holloway's Lost character, James "Sawyer" Ford, appeared in all of the show's 121 episodes across six seasons. Holloway has also had notable roles in movies such as Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, Sabotage, and Paranoia. His other big TV roles include Roarke Morris in Yellowstone seasons 3 and 4 and Will Bowman in Colony. He's had single-episode guest appearances on Community, Yo Gabba Gabba!, and Amazing Stories.

Notable Works:

Character: Holloway plays the effortlessly cool Jim Ellis, a getaway driver in 1970s Phoenix, Arizona.

Rachel Hilson as Nina Hayes

DOB: October 30, 1995

• Active Since: 2010

Actor: Hilson is an American actress from Baltimore, Maryland. After making her TV debut in a 2012 episode of Royal Pains, she rose to prominence as ing character Nisa Dalmer in the acclaimed CBS series The Good Wife. Hilson went on to have single-episode guest appearances on a wide variety of shows such as Elementary, Nurse Jackie, The Affair, Madam Secretary, The Americans, Fosse/Verdon, First Wives Club, and High Maintenance. She gained recurring roles on American Horror Story, Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, This Is Us, and Love, Victor. She recently appeared as Nora Holleran in Prime Video's Red, White & Royal Blue.

Notable Works:

Character: Hilson plays the go-getter FBI agent Nina Hayes in Duster, inspired by a handful of the first real-life black women FBI agents from the 1970s.

Keith David as Ezra Saxon

DOB: June 4, 1956

• Active Since: 1977

Actor: David is a 3-time Emmy Award-winning actor born in New York City. Davis won two Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Emmys for Unforgiveable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) and The War (2007). He also won for Outstanding Narrator for 2016's Jackie Robinson. David has amassed dozens of credits in film and television since first appearing as a background actor in 1979's Disco Godfather. He rose to prominence after playing Childs in 1982's The Thing and King in 1986's Platoon. Some of his other well-known credits include the original Road House, Princess Mononoke, Armageddon, There's Something About Mary, and Requiem for a Dream. He has also portrayed characters in several classic video games, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and the original Fallout.

Notable Works:

Character: David plays a high-rolling leader of an underground crime organization named Ezra Saxon in Duster season 1.

Corbin Bernsen as Wade Ellis

​​​​​​​DOB: September 7, 1954

• Active Since: 1986

Actor: Bernsen is a 2-time Emmy-nominated actor from Los Angeles, California. He's best known for his classic roles in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Major League I and II. He first made his film debut as a "Boy at Playground" in the 1967 Elvis movie Clambake. He rose to prominence from his roles on the soap opera Ryan's Hope and the classic baseball movie Major League before starring in 171 episodes of L.A. Law from 1986 to 1994, for which he received two Emmy nominations for his role as Arnie Becker. Recently, Bernsen has appeared in notable TV series such as Your Friends & Neighbors, Clipped, The Curse, White House Plumbers, and City on a Hill.

Notable Works:

Character: Bernsen plays Jim's father, Wade Ellis, in Duster season 1.

Duster Season 1 ing Cast & Characters

Camille Guaty as Izzy: Guaty is best known for her roles in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Prison Break, and Harold and the Purple Crayon.

Asivak Koostachin as Awan: Koostachin is best known for his roles in Montana Story, Run Woman Run, and Portraits from a Fire.

Sydney Elisabeth as Genesis: Elisabeth only has one previous acting credit before Duster as Malia Matthews in The Last OG.

Benjamin Charles Watson as Royce: Watson is best known for his roles in Designated Survivor, Romance to the Rescue, and I am Syd Stone.

Greg Grunberg as Abbott: Grunberg is best known for his roles in The Rookie, Alias, and Star Wars Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker.

Evan Jones as Billy Mahoney: Jones is best known for his roles in 8 Mile, Den of Thieves, Jarhead, and The Book of Eli.

Dan Tracy as Agent Grant: Tracy is best known for his roles in Class of '09, The Watcher, and One Bad Choice.

Sofia Vassilieva as Jessica-Lorraine Sims: Vassilieva is best known for her roles in The Little Things, Looking for Alaska, and My Sister's Keeper.

Adriana Aluna Martinez as Luna: Martinez makes her TV debut as Luna in Duster season 1.

J.R. Yenque as Cowboy: Yenque is best known for his roles in Traffic, On My Block, and The Residence.

​​​​​​​Gail O'Grady as Charlotte Dean-Ellis: O'Grady is best known for her roles in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, NYPD Blue, and American Dreams.

Donal Logue as Sergeant Groomes: Logue is best known for his roles in Blade, Zodiac, The Patriot, and Gotham.

Kevin Chamberlin as Bob Temple: Chamberlin is best known for his roles in Road to Perdition, Modern Family, Grace and Frankie, and Die Hard with a Vengeance.

Tom Nelis as Howard Hughes: Nelis is best known for his roles in Little Kings, Girl From North Conway, and The History of Sound.

Jack Topalian as Greek Sal: Topalian is best known for his roles in Emily the Criminal, The Little Things, Clipped, and Bosch.

Jamie H. Jung as Agent Harry: Jung is best known for his roles in Them, Roswell, New Mexico, and Duster.