In ‘Lioness’ season 3 premiere: SMU, Fort Worth neighborhood and more

Taylor Sheridan’s “Lioness” filmed its third season in Fort Worth and all around North Texas.

The Paramount+ series follows CIA operative Joe (Zoe Saldaña) as she balances her “personal and professional lives as the tip of the spear in the agency’s war on terror.” The show also stars Nicole Kidman, Michael Kelly and Morgan Freeman.

“Lioness” spent several months in the Metroplex filming scenes from October 2025 to March 2026.

Here’s a look at all the North Texas locations featured in season 3, episode 1, “The Spider and the Fly,” which aired Sunday, Aug. 2, on Paramount+.

Editor’s note: Spoilers for “Lioness” below.

Berkeley Place neighborhood

At 5:55, Joe (Zoe Saldaña) talks to Kaitlyn (Nicole Kidman) over the phone before she is ambushed and kidnapped.

This entire sequence takes place in the Berkeley Place neighborhood near the Fort Worth Zoo.

Joe backs out of the driveway of a home 2236 Hawthorne Ave., and the actual kidnapping takes place on Forrest Park Boulevard between Huntington Lane and Hawthorne Avenue.

Dallas City Hall

At 8:04, Byron (Michael Kelly) walks into the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

If the building looks familiar, that’s because it’s actually Dallas City Hall.

Sci-fi classic “RoboCop” filmed at the downtown building back in the 1980s. Dallas filmmaker Merced Elizondo also filmed his new short film, “And Then Everything Turned Itself Inside Out,” at the locale just a few months ago.

SMU

At 9:03, Joe and her team are on an assignment at Georgetown University.

This was actually filmed on SMU’s campus in Dallas.

“Lioness” season 3 airs Sundays on Paramount+.

Brayden Garcia

Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Brayden Garcia is the entertainment reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he mainly writes about how the film and TV industry impacts North Texas, from Taylor Sheridan shows to the Fort Worth Film Commission and everything in between.