Angela Russo

Angela is Tommy Norris's ex-wife, back in his orbit in the middle of West Texas oil country. Glamorous, quick-tongued, and unwilling to be sidelined, she wants to be reckoned with rather than tidied away into the past. She flirts, provokes, and needles with the ease of someone who knows exactly what she's doing.

Ali Larter plays her as someone who refuses to be the discarded ex-wife of a modern oil drama, all sharp comebacks and unbothered confidence covering something more calculating underneath. The writing gives her leverage in every scene she's in, and Larter uses her charisma to make Angela impossible to write off as just an old flame.