Before the TV series This Is Us Came and became the teardrop leader on Grey’s Anatomy brought viewers to tears every week. Arguably, in the emotional TV pantheon, Grey’s Anatomy is an OG. The long-running series is a creation of Shonda Rhimes, a woman whose variety of serial dramas earned her a reputation as a TV serial killer due to her tendency to kill beloved characters on her shows.
The show was born out of Shonda Rhimes’ desire to see a show where smart women compete against each other. She embraced the medical setting due to her obsession and fascination with surgeries of the time. The name Grey’s Anatomy was chosen as part of the famous medical textbook Grey’s Anatomy, written by Henry Gray. This is also the factor that prompted the character’s name, Dr. Meredith Gray.
The show began production in 2005 as a mid-season stand-in for Boston Legal. It is produced by Shonda Rhimes’ production company, Shondaland, which produces other shows such as How to Escape Murder, Scandal, For the People, and Station 19. It is produced alongside ABC Studios and the Mark Gordon Company.
The show has been largely well received and is currently in its fifteenth season. Since its inception, it has maintained an average score of 74% on review aggregator site, Rotten Tomatoes.
Synopsis
The heart of the series is about Meredith Grey, a new surgical intern who has just been accepted into the residency program at Seattle Grace Hospital, a fictional hospital located in Seattle. The show follows how Meredith Gray and her fellow doctor friends manage their careers and personal lives.
The show’s rotating cast can often change the relationship dynamic of the show’s purpose is to shine a light on how women and people, in general, navigate the world, especially in a highly demanding profession like this. of medicine.
Grey’s Anatomy – Cast
A show that ran for 15 seasons is bound to have a cast list that’s as long as the Nile. Combined with the murderous tendencies of Shonda Rhimes, the show saw a cast cast that managed to keep the show going and keep viewers interested. He also managed to keep four of the show’s original cast members to date.
The casting process for the show reportedly Shonda insisted that the show be racially diverse. Casting for the show took a long process but it finally came to an end and one of television’s most popular shows was ready to be filmed.
Here is a list of the main actors of the series and their respective characters.
Ellen Pompeo – Meredith Gray
‘I need a girl like that girl from MoonlightMile’ were the words that came out of Shonda Rhimes as she sought the lead for her new show. The network decided to take it a step further and enroll the girl from Moonlight Mile and that’s how Ellen Pompeo became the lead actor of Grey’s Anatomy and the main character of the show.
The entire show mostly revolved around her as the focal point of the show. She was introduced as the daughter of a famous surgeon, Ellis Grey, and as the new resident of the show’s fictional hospital.
Ellen Pompeo has been highly praised for her Meredith Gray continuing to star on the show, with her critics even going so far as to defend a campaign for her to win the most coveted Emmy Award as a TV actress. As she awaits her first nomination and eventual Emmy win, she has been honored by other bodies such as the Satellite Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Award with numerous nominations and wins.
Among her other projects, she starred in Daredevil, Catch Me If You Can, Moonlight Mile, Undermind, Law & Order, and The Job. She also directed two episodes of Grey’s Anatomy and was credited as a producer on 10 episodes.
Sandra Oh – Cristina Yang
Sandra Oh portrays one of the most iconic friendships on modern television as Cristina Yang starred Meredith Gray and is one of the founding cast members of Grey’s Anatomy. His character, like Grey’s, started the show as an intern who just got his residency. Until her exit from the show in its tenth season, she was one of the show’s most beloved characters and was cherished by fans and critics alike as audiences followed her journey from surgical trainee to resident surgeon. cardiothoracic.
She was originally slated to play the role of Miranda Bailey, which she auditioned for, but after seeing the role of Cristina Yang, she opted to read for the role and was eventually cast in the role.
Sandra Oh, a Canadian actress, has been in the industry since 1989 and has featured in several movies and TV shows such as Tammy, Catfight, Mulan II, Hard Candy, Arliss, Sesame Street, Phineas, and Ferb, among many others. She currently stars on Killing Eve as Eve Polastri.
Her career so far has been marked with several awards like Emmy nominations for her role in Grey’s Anatomy, which she never won despite being nominated six times. She won the Screen Actors Guild Award and Satellite Awards.
Justin Chambers – Alex Karev
Alex Karev is another of the main cast members who continue to appear on the show. He is part of the group of interns who took over at Seattle Grace Hospital at the start of the show. He was introduced as the villain of the series, who was hated by the other trainees and had terrible interpersonal skills.
The character however underwent significant development over the course of the show and in addition to becoming a kinder and better person, he became the hospital’s acting chief of surgery who also had his own development and became the Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Justin Chambers is a former model who started his acting career as a recurring character in Another World. Since then he has starred in films like Liberty Heights, The Wedding Planner, Broken City, among a few others. On television, he has starred in shows like Four Corners, Cold Case and has appeared on Grey’s Anatomy as Alex Karev since 2005.
All of his nominations and awards have gone to Grey’s Anatomy, which includes a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Chandra Wilson – Miranda Bailey
Chandra Wilson is part of the original cast of Grey’s Anatomy and she continues to appear on the show. The actor/director was cast as Miranda Bailey, a senior resident at Seattle Grace Hospital who was the original group’s supervising resident when they joined the hospital. She is characterized by a stern, quick-witted personality with a mean exterior, but a love within. She is currently chief of surgery at the hospital.
Chandra Wilson who plays Miranda has worked on other notable projects like Lone Star, The Cosby Show, The Sopranos. She also directed several episodes of Grey’s Anatomy, The Fosters and an episode of Scandal. She is also a theater actress.
So far in her career, she has been nominated for 26 awards, including five Emmy nominations.
James Pickens Jr. – Richard Webber
James Pickens portrays one of only four characters who have been on the show since its inception, Richard Webber. Webber was the Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital at the start of the show. His work ethic and pursuit of excellence and greatness shattered his marriage. He was also known to have had an affair with Meredith Grey’s mother, Ellis Grey.
Richard Webber is portrayed by James Pickens Jr, who began his career in acting. He’s been in movies like Dead Presidents, Venom, 42 and shows like Roseanne, The Practice, Seinfeld, The X-Files. He was nominated for several awards for his portrayal of the character on the show.
Katherine Heigl – Izzie Stevens
Katherine Heigl may have been unloved by now, but she was once everyone’s sweetheart when she began portraying Izzie Stevens on Grey’s Anatomy. She started the show as a surgical intern like the rest of the band and worked her way up to resident level until she left the show in the sixth season.
Heigl received a lot of accolades for her role on the show as Izzie and was rewarded with numerous awards and nominations, including an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She starred on other notable projects like Cursed, Jenny’s Wedding, 27 Dresses, and The Ugly Truth.
Other prominent Grey’s Anatomy cast members include Patrick Dempsey as Derek Shepard, Sara Ramirez as Callie Torres, Isaiah Washington as Preston Burke, Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery.
Episodes
The series has an average running time of 43 episodes.minutes with a total of 325 episodes to date. After the first season aired with 9 episodes, each season after has averaged 24 episodes except for the fourth, seventh, and eleventh seasons which have 17, 22, and 25 episodes respectively.
The first episode of the series was titled A Hard Day’s Night.
Release date, trailers, spoilers
The fifteenth season of the show begins airing September 27, 2018, and the show has continued its flow of dramatic and heartbreaking storylines. The show is scheduled for a winter hiatus on November 15 and is expected to return in 2019.