‘Cobra Kai’ Actor Barrett Carnahan Joins Apple’s ‘For All Mankind’ For Season 5

Rosy Cordero
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EXCLUSIVE: Barrett Carnahan (Cobra Kai) has been cast in the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind for the space drama’s upcoming fifth season. In a recurring role, he will portray ‘Marcus,’ a recent high school graduate living on Mars.

The latest season of For All Mankind, created by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, rocketed the series into the new millennium. In the eight years since Season 3, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. It’s now 2003, and the space program’s focus has turned to capturing and mining extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working toward.

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Carnahan joins the expanding cast that includes Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz and Ines Asserson.

Wolpert and Nedivi will serve as showrunners of Season 5. They executive produce alongside Moore and Maril Davis of Tall Ship Productions, David Weddle, Bradley Thompson, Seth Edelstein, and Kira Snyder. The series is produced by Ronald D. Moore, Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi. For All Mankind is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.

Carnahan most recently portrayed a younger version of John Kreese (Martin Kove) in the Netflix hit series Cobra Kai, which is gearing up to conclude its sixth and final season in 2025. He reunited with the Karate Kid follow-up creators Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg on the series Obliterated also from the streamer. Carnahan is perhaps best known for playing ‘Jake Riordan’ in Peacock’s One of Us is Lying and ‘Derek Turner’ in Freeform’s Cruel Summer.

Additional credits include Freeform’s Grown-ish, Amazon’s Good Girls Revolt, USA’s Colony, NBC’s Constantine, Disney’s Best Friends Whenever, and Nickelodeon’s The Thundermans. He has appeared in episodes of FOX’s Bones, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy, FOX’s Sleepy Hollow and ABC’s Modern Family.

Carnahan is repped by Neon Kite and Innovative Artists.

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