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The Essentials With Natalie Alyn Lind: Cowboy Boots, Le Labo and Horror Movies

The Dutton Ranch star and first-time horror producer shares her go-to lipstick, her nostalgic scents and the travel staples she can’t live without.

Natalie Alyn Lind grew up backstage. Her mother is Barbara Alyn Woods, of One Tree Hill fame; her father, John Lind, is a first assistant director, the unglamorous field marshal who actually gets a set from call sheet to wrap. Which means Lind, whose younger sister, Emily Alyn Lind, also started acting at six, has been loitering near cameras since before she could read a contract, and has the two-decade ledger to show for it: a mutant in Marvel's The Gifted; a kidnapped daughter in David E. Kelley's Big Sky; a turn in a Stephen King prequel (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines); a slot in Colin Farrell's woozy Apple TV noir Sugar. It's a resume that could have minted a household name years ago and somehow didn't—until now. As Oreana Lynn Jackson on Dutton Ranch, she's part of the main cast of the biggest series launch in Paramount history: 12.9 million views in week one, Certified Fresh, the whole rodeo.

She felt the weight of it before a single frame rolled. A lifelong devotee who has seen every dusty corner of the Yellowstone universe, Lind more or less knew exactly what she was walking into. "There's an intimidation to not wanting to mess up the original," she tells Observer. "We loved it so much—and when you love something that much, you can't help but need everyone else to love it too." When the fanbase came back roaring, she says, it was the sound of a held breath finally let go. For Lind, what makes Taylor Sheridan's universe resonate is everything the audience never sees. "Before we started filming, the creatives handed us this book—every branch of the family, generations back," she explains. "I know exactly what my character has been doing since the day she was born. That's why these shows feel so real. You're never guessing at who you are."

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