Fans who just watched Landman Season 2, Episode 3 often come away with the same question in their search bar:
“Who is Bella in Landman?”
Or, phrased another way: “Who plays Danny Morrell’s wife?”
The short, factual answer is clear.
Bella is the wife of cartel boss Gallino, and she is played by Italian actress Stefania Spampinato, best known as Dr. Carina DeLuca‑Bishop from Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19. She steps into Landman in a single club scene that quietly reshapes several storylines at once.
Here is how that works, and why this secondary character has become such a frequent search topic so quickly.
- Where Bella Fits in Landman’s Story
- “Gallino’s Wife, Bella”: The On‑Screen Introduction
- Inside the Cattlemen’s Club Scene
- How the Scene Rewires Tommy and Angela
- Gallino, Dan Morrell, and the Search for “Danny Morrell’s Wife”
- Who Plays Bella? Stefania Spampinato’s Path to Landman
- How Critics and Coverage Are Reading Bella So Far
- What Happens Next for Bella and Gallino
Where Bella Fits in Landman’s Story
Before we zoom in on Bella, it helps to place her in the wider Landman timeline.
Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace’s series follows Tommy Norris as he climbs from landman to oil executive in modern West Texas. Season 1 premiered on Paramount+ on November 17, 2024, and ran through January 12, 2025. The premiere pulled about 5.2 million viewers across streaming and a Paramount Network simulcast, which made it the service’s strongest launch in roughly two years.
Season 2 arrived this fall. Paramount+ ordered the new run in March 2025 and launched it on November 16, 2025, with weekly Sunday releases at 3 a.m. ET / 12 a.m. PT. The Season 2 premiere drew more than 9.2 million global views in its first two days, a jump of about 262 percent over the Season 1 opener, and it drove a fresh wave of Season 1 viewing.
By Episode 3 of Season 2, titled “Almost a Home” and released on November 30, 2025, the show had firmly shifted into a bigger‑stakes arena.
M‑Tex’s books look shaky, cartel money is circling, and the lines between legitimate oil finance and organized crime are starting to blur.
That is where Bella walks in.
“Gallino’s Wife, Bella”: The On‑Screen Introduction
Entertainment Weekly’s Season 2 cast guide lists Stefania Spampinato simply as “Gallino’s wife.” Viewers get their first proper look at that character in “Almost a Home,” during a long night at the Cattlemen’s Club in Fort Worth.
In multiple recaps and explainers, the scene is described the same way:
- The episode has already shown a brutal hydrogen sulfide exposure at an abandoned well and a tense legal meeting where Cami Miller learns her late husband Monty funded their life through loans and shell companies. A $420 million offshore drilling settlement is among the sums she cannot cleanly trace.
- Reeling from that discovery, Cami and Tommy head to the Cattlemen’s Club to meet a man who might help untangle Monty’s finances.
- Inside the club, Angela arrives in what one recap calls a “killer orange dress.” She steers Cami over to the table where cartel boss Gallino is sitting with his wife.
That is the first time press coverage clearly names the character. People’s breakdown of the episode describes the couple as “cartel boss Gallino (Andy Garcia) and his wife, Bella (Stefania Spampinato).” TVLine’s recap, syndicated through AOL, refers to her as “Gallino’s wife Bella” and uses her name repeatedly as it recounts the night.
IMDb backs that up. The database credits Stefania Spampinato as “Bella” in Season 2, Episode 3.
On screen, she does not get a lengthy introduction. She is simply there, seated beside Gallino in an exclusive Fort Worth club, dressed like she belongs in that room.
But the scene that follows is the hinge of the episode.
Inside the Cattlemen’s Club Scene
The table at the Cattlemen’s Club seats an odd mix of people:
- Tommy Norris and his ex‑wife Angela, who have been edging back toward each other all season.
- Gallino and Bella, sitting as a polished, seemingly content couple.
- Cami, the grieving widow who just found out her late husband may have left her a financial time bomb.
Recaps agree on a few key beats.
First, the social dynamic.
As the drinks keep coming, the group becomes louder and looser. TVLine notes that they are eventually “the only group left in the club.” In that same recap, Angela and Bella are “basically besties” by the end of the night. The implication is simple: Bella is charming, quick to connect, and comfortable in elite Texas social circles.
Second, Cami’s speech.
At some point in the evening, she offers a toast. She tells the couples at the table to appreciate what they have and says how rare it is to stay with someone long enough to really know them and still be in love. She points out that this table is full of couples who seem to have grown more in love over time, not less.
Pressed up against her own loss, that moment hits hard. People later framed the entire episode, including this dinner, as the setup for Demi Moore’s most intense breakdown as Cami. After the club, Cami will return home, look at a candid photo of herself and Monty, and collapse on the floor sobbing.
Third, Gallino’s pitch.
Away from the noise, he pulls Cami aside and asks if she knows what he does. He describes himself, very deliberately, as an “investor in people.” He tells her she is “a person to believe in.” Cami, struggling with M‑Tex’s numbers and her own guilt, tells him she may need an investor.
They shake hands. Coverage from People and other outlets stresses that this is not yet a formal deal. It is a promise to keep talking, a signal that cartel capital may soon be propping up M‑Tex.
Bella does not deliver that pitch. She does not make an explicit threat.
Instead, she stays visible at the table as proof that this man, who viewers know as a cartel boss, can pass in Fort Worth society as a respectable investor with a poised wife and new friends.
How the Scene Rewires Tommy and Angela
Bella’s presence at the club matters most in how normal everything looks.
Tommy, who remembers Gallino’s violent side from earlier episodes, introduces Angela to him as his “wife.” On the car ride home, Angela challenges him on that. They are divorced. Why call her that?
Tommy answers that they have been living as husband and wife, so that is what he calls her. Angela treats that explanation as a proposal. She interrupts before he can clarify and says yes, enthusiastically and with a string of profanity that recaps have enjoyed quoting.
Without that club table, that line would not land the same way.
Tommy is trying to present a stable marriage to a very dangerous couple. Angela hears that and runs with it.
Bella, again, is not the one speaking. But her role in that night’s double‑date optics helps push Tommy and Angela into a new stage.
Gallino, Dan Morrell, and the Search for “Danny Morrell’s Wife”
So why do so many viewers search for “Danny Morrell wife actress” instead of “Gallino’s wife Bella”?
Landman itself is partly to blame.
Season 2 shows Andy Garcia’s character moving between two identities. In some scenes and press material he is “Gallino,” the cartel boss tied to South Texas and the darker side of the Eagle Ford Shale economy. In others, especially when he deals with banks and funds, he uses an Anglo‑sounding name.
Different outlets describe this in slightly different ways:
- Some episode explainers call him “cartel boss Gallino, operating under the alias Dan Morrell,” especially when he is seen in modern Dallas‑style offices tied to an investment vehicle called Angel US Investments.
- A detailed online recap of Episode 3 says that when Tommy visits that office about Cooper’s drilling deal, Garcia’s character introduces himself as “Dan Morrell” and pitches himself as a deeper financial partner.
- TVLine’s summary notes that “we learn his real name is Danny Morel,” then continues to use “Gallino” as the main name, underlining the confusion.
Landman’s own plot adds another wrinkle.
Earlier in Season 2, a Sonrisa drilling deal worth roughly $48 million for six wells is shown flowing through a Dallas financial fund that paperwork associates with “Dan Morrell” as owner. Some coverage treats him as a separate oil‑patch middleman. Other pieces, leaning on Paramount press notes, say that “Dan Morrell” is simply another identity for Gallino.
By the time Episode 3 rolls around, many viewers have heard both names in rapid succession. They see the same man at Angel US Investments and at the Cattlemen’s Club. They watch him sit with Bella and Cami, talk “investments,” and shake on a possible deal.
So when those viewers open a browser and ask who that wife is, “Danny Morrell’s wife” becomes the easiest label.
Underneath that phrase, however, they are really searching for Bella, Gallino’s wife, played by Stefania Spampinato.
Who Plays Bella? Stefania Spampinato’s Path to Landman
For many TV fans, Stefania Spampinato is already a familiar face.
She was born on July 17, 1982, in Catania, Sicily, in southern Italy. She started studying dance at age six and later attended a Liceo Classico before moving to Milan. There, she completed training in dance, acting, and singing at an arts academy.
In 2006, she moved to London and worked as a professional dancer. French‑language profiles note appearances with international stars such as Kylie Minogue and work on major shows like The Voice and The X Factor in the UK and the US.
She relocated again in 2011, this time to Los Angeles, to focus on acting. Early screen credits include appearances on Glee and Satisfaction. Her breakthrough came in 2017, when she joined Grey’s Anatomy as Dr. Carina DeLuca, an OB‑GYN and the sister of Andrew DeLuca. She carried that role over to spinoff Station 19 in 2020 and stayed there through 2024, eventually becoming a series regular and even directing an episode titled “Trouble Man.”
Along the way, she also returned to Italian cinema, co‑starring in the 2019 comedy Il giorno più bello del mondo (The Most Beautiful Day in the World).
Trade coverage in mid‑2025 reported that she had joined Landman Season 2 as the wife of Andy Garcia’s character. Entertainment Weekly’s Season 2 cast guide introduces her in exactly those terms and reminds readers of her Grey’s and Station 19 resume.
Landman.tv’s own season‑preview piece described her as a “mysterious wife” who would help anchor Gallino’s family side as the show pushed further into cartel politics and money. That framing matches what viewers see in Episode 3: a poised woman at the center of a powerful couple, used to nice rooms and delicate conversations.
How Critics and Coverage Are Reading Bella So Far
With only three Season 2 episodes available as of early December 2025, Bella has not yet had a storyline of her own. Even so, several clear patterns show up in the way media outlets describe her.
First, she is part of Gallino’s respectable front.
When Andy Garcia talks about the character in interviews, he emphasizes how Gallino presents himself as a calm, generous investor in Fort Worth. Coverage in outlets like TV Insider and local NBC affiliates notes that Tommy is struck by both Gallino’s mild demeanor and his wife when he runs into them again under the investment‑fund identity.
Second, she is Angela’s social mirror.
TVLine’s “besties by the end of the night” phrase is one of the few bits of character description Bella gets in Episode 3 coverage, but it carries weight. Angela is not easy to charm. The fact that Bella does it in a single evening suggests she is socially skilled and can navigate complex personalities quickly.
Third, she is a quiet pivot in Cami’s grief arc.
People’s coverage of Demi Moore’s performance ties the Cattlemen’s Club directly to Cami’s collapse on her living‑room floor later that night. Being seated between two apparently loving couples, including Bella and Gallino, heightens the emptiness Cami feels without Monty. Bella’s warm presence, even in the background, rubs salt in that wound.
Fourth, she is part of a larger casting pattern.
Several entertainment outlets have pointed out that Landman Season 2 brings in actors known for network dramas and puts them in a much rougher setting. Spampinato is one of the clearest examples: a Shondaland doctor now playing the spouse of a cartel power broker in a Texas oil show.
What Happens Next for Bella and Gallino
As of Episode 3, everything we can say about Bella is on the surface.
We know:
- She is Gallino’s wife, and she appears comfortable in his world of high‑end clubs and financial pitches.
- She bonds quickly with Angela, giving Gallino’s couple a friendly link into Tommy’s life.
- She sits at the table the night Cami edges toward a handshake that could bring cartel investment into M‑Tex.
What we do not yet know is how much agency she will have as the season unfolds.
Will she remain a social partner and symbol of normalcy, or will future episodes pull her deeper into the mechanics of Gallino’s business and his dealings with M‑Tex?
Viewers will find out over the back half of Season 2. New episodes of Landman continue to roll out Sundays on Paramount+ through January 18, 2026, with a total of ten episodes slated for the season.
In the meantime, if you find yourself typing “Danny Morrell wife actress” into a search bar after that Cattlemen’s Club scene, you can skip straight to the answer.
Her name is Bella on the show.
She is Gallino’s wife, however he chooses to introduce himself.
And she is played by Stefania Spampinato, a Sicilian‑born dancer‑turned‑actor now trading lab coats for the oil patch and cartel politics of West Texas.
