The Rust Creek cast features Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson and Sean O’Bryan. This info article contains minor spoilers and cast/character summaries for Jen McGowan’s 2018 movie on Netflix. Check out more streaming guides in Vague Visages’ Know the Cast category, and then browse complete soundtrack song listings in the Soundtracks of Cinema section.

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Rust Creek takes place in the Appalachian Mountains. As a female college student begins a road trip, she gets jumped by two drug traffickers. The narrative follows the main protagonist as she forms an escape plan with a local meth cook. Here’s every actor and character in Rust Creek.

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Rust Creek Cast: Hermione Corfield as Sawyer

Character Profile: A Centre College senior. She is a chemistry major who travels through the Appalachian Mountains en route to an interview in Washington D.C. Sawyer gets mixed up with drug traffickers.

Corfield’s Resume: Record Shop Girl in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015), A-Wing Pilot Tallie in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017), Siobhán in Sea Fever (2019), Freddy Lane in We Hunt Together (2020-22), Charlie in A Million Days (2023)

Read More at VV — Know the Cast: ‘The Tearsmith’

Rust Creek Cast: Jay Paulson as Lowell

Character Profile: A meth cook. He helps Sawyer at his Fording County home. Lowell worries about the motivations of his violent cousin.

Paulson’s Resume: X-Phile #2in Can’t Hardly Wait (1998), Adam Whitman in Mad Men (2017-12), Chaplain Tappman in Catch-22 (2019), Ohls in I Am the Night (2019), Colonel George Peters in For All Mankind (2023)

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Rust Creek Cast: Sean O’Bryan as O’Doyle

Character Profile: The Fording County sheriff. He is a corrupt lawman who participates in a drug trafficking conspiracy. O’Doyle threatens to kill Sawyer.

O’Bryan’s Resume: Teacher Mr. O’Connell in The Princess Diaries (2001), Paul Davis in Raising Helen (2004), Cavic in Vantage Point (2008), Ray Monroe in Olympus Has Fallen (2013), Douglas in The Veil (2023)

Read More at VV — Know the Cast: ‘Damsel’

Rust Creek Cast: Micah Hauptman as Hollister

Character Profile: Lowell’s cousin. He is a drug trafficker who colludes with O’Doyle. Hollister finds Sawyer at Lowell’s home.

Hauptmann’s Resume: August Hardwicke in Parker (2013), David Breashears in Everest (2015), Mills in Homeland (2015), David Gallo in In Stereo (2015), Carter Hayes in Nova Vita (2021)

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The Rust Creek cast also includes:

• Daniel R. Hill as Buck
• Jeremy Glazer as Katz
• John Marshall Jones as Slattery
• Laura Guzman as Charlotte
• Jake Kidwell as Josh
• Virginia Schneider as Mom
• Denise Dal Vera as Mrs. Gander

Q.V. Hough (@QVHough) is Vague Visages’ founding editor.