Get to Know Anna Pigeon’s Jordan Sledz, Crystle Lightning, and Nikki Hallow

She was looking for peace in the wilderness but found murder instead. Yes, the TV adaptation of Anna Pigeon is on its way thanks to USA Network—and the impressive cast list keeps growing.

Rising stars Jordan Sledz (Heartland), Crystle Lightning (Ghosts), and Nikki Hallow (Marv n’ Berry) have officially joined the production for season one, Deadline confirmed.

Filmed in Alberta, Canada, the show’s creators tapped some serious local talent—all three actors joining the series hail from the Great White North.

The brand-new take on the beloved book series—coming in 2026—previously announced Chicago P.D.’s Tracy Spiridakos will play the titular role as a detective park ranger trying to escape her past. 

Acting icon Lea Thompson (The Year of Spectacular Men, Back to the Future) is on board to executive-produce and direct, after spending 15 years bringing her passion project to the screen.

Who are Anna Pigeon’s Jordan Sledz, Nikki Hallow, and Crystal Lightning?

The series marks the first major TV role for Sledz. The native of Macklin, Saskatchewan, appeared in Canadian commercials and shorts before landing small parts on The Last of Us, Heartland, and Kevin Costner’s The West. He’ll portray Anna Pigeon’s old flame, Zach Redhill, a classically trained actor.

U.S. audiences will also be introduced to Nikki Hallow, a Canadian acting coach who spent years tickling the funny bone with her Edmonston-based sketch comedy troupe Marv n’ Berry, as well as the bawdy all-female group Sketchy Broads. In Anna Pigeon, she’ll show off her dramatic range. She plays Christina Clark, a park administrative assistant who is a single mom going through a tough divorce.

Crystle Lightening will bring Frieda Dierke to life, a character from the Anna Pigeon novel Blind Descent. The “dispatcher and backbone of the park,” works with Anna and “makes it her business to know everyone else’s business,” according to Deadline.

You might recognize the First Nations actress from TV shows like Outlander, Rutherford Falls, and the comedy Ghosts. After moving from Canada to Los Angeles at 9 with her family, she made a name for herself in a variety of realms, from DJ to hip-hop MC to a Canadian Screen Award-winning actress (Trickster). Lightening has stage experience too, as the co-creator and star of the musical Bear Grease, which gives the 1978 classic Grease an Indigenous spin.

The trio joins the main cast, which also includes Ronnie Rowe Jr. (FBI Agent Frederick Stanton), Manuel Rodriguez-Saenz (Manny López), Cooper Levy (Jesse Garland), and Ryan Northcott (Geoff Miller), Paulina Alexis (Zoey Bear Child) and Tricia Hefler (Molly Pigeon).