Meet the Cast

Emmy Award-winning host and executive producer Jeff Probst returns for the 23rd installment of the phenomenally successful series, SURVIVOR.

16 of 18 castaways who will compete against each other for the million dollar prize and title of Sole Survivor this season on Survivor: South Pacific!

Whitney Duncan, a country music singer currently living in Nashville, Tenn., is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Stacey Powell, a mortician currently living in Grand Prairie, Texas, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Sophie Clarke, a medical student currently living in Willsboro, N.Y., is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Semhar Tadesse, a spoken word artist currently living in Los Angeles, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Rick Nelson, a rancher currently living in Aurora, Utah, is compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Mikayla Wingle, a lingerie football player currently living in Tampa, Fla., is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Mark Caruso, a retired NYPD detective currently living in Forest Hills, N.Y., is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Keith Tollefson, a water treatment tech currently living in Edina, Minn., is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

John Cochran, a Harvard law student, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Jim Rice, a medical marijuana dispenser currently living in Denver, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Elyse Umemoto, a dance team manager currently living in Las Vegas, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Edna Ma, an anesthesiologist currently living in Los Angeles, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Dawn Meehan, an English professor currently living in South Jordan, Utah, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Christine Shields Markoski, a teacher currently living in Merrick, N.Y., is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Brandon Hantz, an oil tanker crewman currently living in Katy, Texas, is set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Albert Destrade, a baseball/dating coach currently living in Plantation, Fla. SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBSTelevision Network.

Benjamin "Coach" Wade, is one of the 18 castaways set to compete in SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC when the twenty-third installment of the Emmy Award-winning reality series premieres Wednesday, September 14 (8:00 – 9:30 PM ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Ozzy Lusth, currently living in Venice, Calif., previously seen on SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS and SURVIVOR: MICRONESIA, is one of two former survivors returning to seek redemption this season.