The new legal drama All’s Fair, led by Kim Kardashian, portrays the high-stakes world of celebrity divorce attorneys in Los Angeles. Early reviews are sharply mixed, but the ensemble cast including Kim Kardashian, Halle Berry, Glenn Close and Sarah Paulson has drawn strong public attention. This article introduces each lead actor and explores how the show reflects the real financial and legal complexities of high–net-worth divorce.
Critics May Be Split — But Interest in the Cast Is Sky-High
All’s Fair has become one of the most talked-about TV releases of the moment. Reviews from major outlets have ranged from “the worst TV drama ever made” to “fascinatingly, existentially terrible,” sparking a cultural debate about what audiences want from high-gloss prestige television.
But despite the critique of tone and script, one factor is cutting through the noise: the cast is stacked with genuine star power. These aren’t cameo names they are Oscar winners, Emmy winners, business moguls, and cultural icons.
And in a show centred on divorce as negotiation, reputation as currency, and wealth as leverage, who plays these roles matters just as much as the writing.
Let’s meet the core cast and explore why their presence gives the show its weight, its intrigue, and its momentum.
Kim Kardashian — The Powerhouse Attorney at the Center
Kim Kardashian leads the cast as a sharp, calculating attorney in a Los Angeles law firm specializing in high-net-worth divorce settlements. Her character understands that separation among the ultra-wealthy is not just emotional — it’s strategic.
This storyline draws directly from Kardashian’s real-world legal trajectory. Since 2019, she has been studying law and passed California’s “baby bar” exam in 2021. Critics have questioned whether this qualifies her for a legal-themed role, but that tension becomes part of her appeal onscreen.
Kardashian is also a billionaire entrepreneur with SKIMS valued at over $4 billion, a detail that aligns intriguingly well with a show about how wealth is built, protected, and divided.
Kim Kardashian, seen in Paris in October 2025, as news breaks of her latest $7 million Hidden Hills property purchase expanding her $60 million compound.
Halle Berry The High-Profile Client Fighting for Control
Halle Berry plays a high-profile client whose divorce threatens both her financial settlement and her public image. Berry brings emotional nuance, portraying someone who understands that reputation is a form of capital.
Her presence reinforces a real-world truth:
Divorce at this level is a full-scale negotiation of assets, identity, narrative — and legacy.
Berry’s grounded performance offers the show some of its most human moments.
Glenn Close The Firm’s Unshakeable Founder
Glenn Close commands the screen as the founding partner of the elite law firm. She embodies power built through decades of influence, negotiation and legal mastery.
Close’s character is the one who understands the quiet war beneath every settlement agreement. She knows the room, reads the room, and controls the room.
And she delivers one of the show’s most defining truths:
“You don’t have to win every argument. You just have to win the ground the other person doesn’t see you taking.”
Sarah Paulson — The Strategist With a Point to Prove
Sarah Paulson plays an ambitious attorney who sees divorce not only as law, but as human psychology under pressure. She reads motivations, uses emotion as leverage and understands that the most valuable asset in any negotiation is knowledge.
Paulson adds urgency to the show’s narrative the feeling that every conversation is a chess move.
Sarah Paulson
The Real Financial Stakes Behind the Story
While the show sparkles with designer offices, whispered secrets and tense negotiation scenes, its subject matter is pulled from reality.
The U.S. divorce industry is valued at more than $50 billion annually.
And among celebrities and entrepreneurs, settlements can include:
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Business ownership stakes
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Intellectual property and brand royalties
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Real estate portfolios
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Trusts, investments and equity
High-profile divorce attorney Laura Wasser, who has represented numerous celebrities including Kardashian, has noted:
“For wealthy clients, divorce is often the single most significant financial transaction of their adult lives.”
According to analysis reviewed by CEO Today, All’s Fair arrives at a cultural moment when marriage among the wealthy is increasingly treated as an asset partnership — and divorce as corporate restructuring.
Final Takeaway
Whether viewers find All’s Fair gripping, chaotic, compelling or confusing, the cast is undeniably the reason people are watching, discussing and debating it.
These performances land at the intersection of celebrity, power, identity, wealth and reinvention — and that makes the show a cultural event, regardless of critical consensus.
And in the world this show portrays, one thing remains constant:
How relationships end can be just as strategic and just as revealing as how they begin.
