We finally have the new team on SWAT: Exiles, that includes a couple of popular TV faces joining Hondo in the spinoff!
After managing to avoid cancellation twice before, SWAT finally ended its eight-season run on CBS in 2025. That seemed to be the end of the line for the series, but once more, it managed to survive, albeit in a different form.
SWAT: Exiles is a streaming spinoff (its exact channel has yet to be determined) that has Hondo (Shemar Moore), forced into retirement for some issue, brought back to command a new team of maverick cops as a unit.
As we previously reported, Jay Harrington (Deacon) and Patrick St. Esprit (Hicks) will appear in the show’s pilot, likely setting up Hondo’s exile from SWAT. Now, Variety has reported the new cast members for the show that will make up a new generation for SWAT!
Who’s starring in the SWAT: Exiles spinoff?
The new cast members announced are Ronen Rubinstein, Freddy Miyares, Lucy Barrett, Zyra Gorecki, and Adain Bradley. That seems to be the core cast although the possibility of some smaller characters added as the support staff or other police officers aiding the main team.
While there’s no confirmation on who’s who, the earlier description of characters talked of “a charismatic, Black former Marine from South Central; an undercover cop with a questionable shooting in his past; an amputee who was at the top of her class at the academy and refuses to ride a desk; a tactical prodigy with a disruptive lack of social skills; and a former beauty queen who now works as a law enforcement ‘influencer.”
Rubinstein is best known for his role as cop turned Texas Ranger T.K. on the FOX series 911: Lone Star, which wrapped up its five-season run earlier in 2025. That makes him an easy candidate to play a cop with an attitude. Miyares starred in the mini-series When They See Us and recurring roles on The L Word: Generation Q and Grey’s Anatomy, who might be playing that undercover cop.
Barrett is best known for playing witch Mikaelea in the fourth and final season of the CW's Charmed reboot. Gorecki played Izzy on the NBC sci-fi drama La Brea and seems the best pick for the former beauty queen influencer character. Finally, Bradley has had recurring roles on All-American, Riverdale and other shows to be a fresher face to the cast.
It’s an intriguing mix of younger faces as the show will draw drama from Hondo having to train a new generation of cops as SWAT officers. There’s still work to do before filming begins, but at least we know who the team on SWAT: Exiles is to kick off a new era for the franchise.
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