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‘Fire Country’ Casts Olivia Thirlby For Season 5 As CBS Drama’s First Series Regular Addition Ever

Olivia Thirlby joins as Cecilia “CJ” Ryan, the first series regular added to the CBS drama, which will return with 13 episodes.

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EXCLUSIVE: Fire Country is getting not one but two major new additions for its upcoming fifth season. Following Eric Guggenheim’s arrival as executive producer and showrunner, the CBS firefighter drama has cast Olivia Thirlby (Oppenheimer, Y: The Last Man) as a new series regular for Season 5. She will play a new firefighter, CJ. Both hires are significant as they mark first showrunner change on the series, which was run by Tia Napolitano for …

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Deadline broke the news in Los Angeles, United States on Monday, June 29, 2026.
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