Every GTA 6 Actor Rumored and Confirmed by Rockstar Ahead of Launch

It’s been an excruciatingly long wait, but we’re just days away from the launch of Grand Theft Auto 6. Ahead of the game’s launch for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, Rockstar Games has yet to reveal any official details about the actors who will appear in GTA 6, including the central couple, Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos.

Even so, eagle-eyed fans on social media have been speculating for months about who’s playing the lead duo, as well as prominent supporting characters featured in trailers, previews, and promotional materials, including Brian Heder, Cal Hampton, Raul Bautista, and Boobie Ike. While we wait for Rockstar to make it official, we’ve rounded up all the most credible rumors about the GTA 6 cast below.

Lucia Caminos GTA 6 casting rumors

Manni L. Perez has been rumored to be playing the female lead in GTA 6 for three years now, since Rockstar shared its first trailer for the game. Over on the game’s subreddit, you’ll find dozens of posts about her from over the years, often comparing her appearance to that of the in-game character. (There is, indeed, a striking resemblance.) Perez has previously appeared in Law and Order: SVU, Chicago P.D., and Jessica Jones. She also provided the voice for a nightclub patron and a blackjack dealer in GTA Online. Neither Perez nor Rockstar have confirmed her involvement in the project.

Jason Duval GTA 6 casting rumors

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The male lead of GTA 6 is widely rumored to be portrayed by actor Dylan Rourke. He has previously appeared in one episode each of Grey’s Anatomy and Modern Family. A number of YouTube videos have compared Jason’s dialogue with some of Rourke’s previous work. Though the two sound quite similar, neither Rourke nor Rockstar have confirmed his involvement in the project.

Brian Heder GTA 6 casting rumors

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Back in September, Emmy-winning actor Stephen Root confirmed longstanding rumors he would be playing Brian in GTA 6 during a red-carpet interview with the Associated Press. “Yeah, you’re going to see me in there,” he said. “I think from the first rollout of GTA that they were doing almost a year ago they had my character in there, and there were too many people that knew me from King of the Hill and my voice. So, I think that secret kind of got divulged then.” Rockstar Games has not yet confirmed that Root will be playing Brian.

Cal Hampton GTA 6 casting rumors

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For several months, fans have speculated that Saturday Night Live alum Bobby Moynihan will be playing Cal Hampton, a chill friend of Jason Duval who never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like. On social media, fans have highlighted the physical resemblance between the actor and the character, Moynihan’s previous experience with motion capture work, and the fact that he recently started following Dylan Rourke as evidence in favor of his casting. Neither Moynihan nor Rockstar have confirmed his involvement in the project.

Raul Bautista GTA 6 casting rumors

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The GTA fandom is less certain about who is playing Raul Bautista, an older mentor to Jason and Lucia who featured prominently in Netflix’s Extended Look back in August. Several netizens honed in on the actor’s Dominican accent, leading them to speculate the character was being played by actor Manny Perez, known for his roles in independent films and TV shows like Blue Bloods and

Law and Order: SVU. Other online rumor-mongers claim he will be played by Spanish actor Óscar Jaenada, who shared an Instagram post that appears to show him wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Raul. Rockstar Games has not confirmed whether either actor will appear in GTA 6.

Boobie Ike GTA 6 casting rumors

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Of all the GTA 6 characters that Rockstar has revealed so far, Boobie Ike is the biggest mystery of the bunch. The game’s official site describes him as “one of the few to transform his time in the streets into a legitimate empire spanning real estate, a strip club, and a recording studio — Boobie’s all smiles until it’s time to talk business.”

However, the character has yet to appear in a single trailer. Jason and Lucia were working for Boobie during the drug deal gone wrong at the start of the Netflix Extended Look, but the character didn’t appear in that preview, either. That means we still don’t know what he sounds like, which has made it difficult for the fandom to reach a consensus on who’s playing the character. (That hasn’t stopped redditors from making some wild speculation about T-Pain and Kanye West, though.) Some folks on social media think Boobie could be played by actor Johnny Ray Gill due to a cryptic social media post he made hinting at an upcoming project, but there’s not much meat on that bone. Rockstar Games has not confirmed who will play Boobie Ike in GTA 6.

Past Rockstar Games casts

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In past GTA installments, Rockstar looked to well-known movie and TV actors to fill out the cast. 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City included a number of big names, including Ray Liotta, Tom Sizemore, Dennis Hopper, Danny Trejo, Debbie Harry, and Jenna Jameson. In 2004, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas starred Ice-T, Samuel L. Jackson, James Woods, Charlie Murphy, and David Cross, among many others. A longstanding (but unconfirmed) rumor claims that Liotta might have reprized his role as the Hawaiian shirt-loving protagonist Tommy Vercetti in San Andreas, but he asked for more money than Rockstar was willing to pay.

Instead, the cast of GTA 6 bears a closer resemblance to that of GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2: less widely known, yet very accomplished voice actors who are less likely to demand a massive payout. Still, given the stratospheric levels of hype surrounding Rockstar’s latest, we suspect these new cast members are about to become household names.

Grand Theft Auto 6 will be released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X on Nov. 19.