Justin Hartley has found his first post-This Is Us project — the CBS television show Tracker, which, aside from Hartley, features multiple talented and familiar cast members. The action drama series, created by Ben H. Winters, got the coveted post-Super Bowl timeslot, so it premiered directly following Super Bowl LVIII on January 11, 2024. The football game was one of the most watched television programs in history, so it’s safe to say that Tracker significantly benefited from the network debuting its pilot episode directly after the event.
Tracker is based on Jeffery Deaver’s 2019 novel The Never Game, the first of four books in the author’s Colter Shaw series. The show stars Hartley as the main character — Colter Shaw — an expert survivalist with a complicated past who excels at tracking down missing individuals. Although Colter mostly has a solitary lifestyle, he depends on a handful of individuals to aid him in his cases, and these characters (along with a few of Colter’s family members) make up the rest of the Tracker cast.
Justin Hartley As Colter Shaw
Actor: Justin Hartley headlines Tracker on CBS following his critically acclaimed run as Kevin Pearson in This Is Us. Hartley was born on January 29, 1977, in Galesburg, Illinois, but he grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. Following his high school graduation, Hartley majored in theater at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the University of Illinois at Chicago and quickly pursued an acting career after college. The actor’s breakout role came early in his career when he starred as Fox Crane in Passions, an NBC daytime soap opera, from 2002 to 2006.
