Our Kind of People

• Yaya DaCosta as Angela Vaughn
• Nadine Ellis as Leah Franklin Dupont
• Lance Gross as Tyrique Chapman
• Rhyon Nicole Brown as Lauren Dupont
• Alana Kay Bright as Nikki Vaughn
• Kyle Bary as Quincy Dupont
• Joe Morton as Teddy Franklin
• Morris Chestnut as Raymond Dupont

• Raven Goodwin as Josephine, Angela's old college roommate and close friend who is an accepted member of The Bluffs community. (Season 1)
• Nicole Chanel Williams as Taylor Woods, a fun-loving and open girl.
• L. Scott Caldwell as Olivia Sturgess Dupont, Raymond's mother, an elegant society matron who pegs Angela as a disruptor in their tight-knit community
• Debbi Morgan as Patricia “Aunt Piggy” Williams, Angela's uninhabited aunt who has secrets of her own, including a connection to Oak Bluffs from many years ago.
• Melissa De Sousa as Alex Rivera, an accomplished financial reporter and Raymond's ex-wife
• McKinley Freeman as Nate Robinson, Nikki's father who spent 17 years in jail
• Susan Spain as Rose Franklin, Teddy's wife and Leah's mother (Season 1)
• Kay-Megan Washington as Jackie, Franklin family maid
• Ahmarie Holmes as Sloane, Jackie’s granddaughter who is secretly seeing Quincy
• Jeff Hephner as Jack Harmon, Raymond’s partner at Darmon

In September 2017, it was announced that an adaptation of Lawrence Otis Graham's 1999 book Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class, pitched by Wendy Calhoun was in development at Fox.[16] In August 2019, writing on the series was taken over by Lee Daniels and Karen Gist.[17] The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 resulted in the series being pushed to off-cycle development.[18] In September 2020, it was confirmed that a writer's room had been opened for the series and that the series was in contention for a straight-to-series order for the 2021–22 season.[19] On March 29, 2021, the project was officially handed a series order by Fox.[20]

On May 12, 2021, Yaya DaCosta was the first to be cast in the series, in the role of Angela Vaughn.[21] She was joined the following week by Morris Chestnut, in the role of Raymond Dupont.[22] At the end of May 2021, Alana Bright was cast in a starring role.[23] In June 2021, LeToya Luckett, Rhyon Nicole Brown, Joe Morton, Kyle Bary, and Lance Gross were cast in a starring roles while Debbi Morgan and L. Scott Caldwell were cast in recurring roles.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30] In July 2021, Nadine Ellis joined the cast in a recasting, replacing Luckett.[31] In August 2021, Raven Goodwin and Nicole Chanel Williams were cast in recurring roles.[32] In October 2021, Melissa De Sousa and McKinley Freeman joined the cast in recurring capacities.[33]

Principal photography for the series began on July 7, 2021, and is scheduled to conclude on November 24, 2021, in Wilmington, North Carolina.[34]

In Canada, the series airs on CTV in a simulcast with Fox.[37] It has been dumped to CTV 2 after 2 episodes due to low ratings. The series also premiered with the first 3 episodes on Disney+ via the streaming hub Star as an original series in selected countries.[38][39] In Latin America, the series premiered as a Star+ original.[40] In India, the series streams on Disney+ Hotstar, with episodes being made available the day after their U.S. broadcast.[41]

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 33% approval rating with an average rating of 6.1/10, based on 12 critic reviews. The website's critics consensus reads, "Our Kind of People has its share of soapy seductions, but overly familiar plots and a general lack of tension strand an attractive cast in a beautifully empty drama."[42] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 53 out of 100 based on 11 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[43]