Emmy Award-winning drama series �ER,� for its ten completed seasons, was television�s highest-rated drama among key advertising demographics for each of those seasons, a feat unprecedented in television history. Created by best-selling author Michael Crichton (�Jurassic Park�), the series centers on the medical personnel in the emergency room of a Chicago hospital. Crichton is also an executive producer, along with John Wells (�China Beach�) and Christopher Chulack.

�ER� tracks the inner workings of County General Hospital, a Level One Trauma Center where heroic doctors and nurses are faced with life-and-death decisions on a daily basis. The staff is led by Attending Physician Dr. John Carter (Noah Wyle), who, in his eleventh year at County, has risen to a role of respect and moral leadership in the ER. The chief of staff, Dr. Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes), a tough and determined administrator, finds herself at a personal crossroads, trying to strike a balance between her life as a doctor and the life she now wants as a woman.

Also on staff are Dr. Luka Kovac (Goran Visnjic), an ER attending physician from Croatia who is searching � sometimes self-destructively � for something to fill the void of his lost family and failed relationships; Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney), who recently made the professional transition from nurse to doctor, is making a serious effort to turn her personal life around; Dr. Jing-Mei Chen (Ming-Na), an attending E.R. doc who, having sacrificed so much for her work, is looking to lighten up and get out more; Dr. Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), who after a few years away has readjusted to the emergency room and recently had a baby with a man she married in Las Vegas on a whim; and Dr. Gregory Pratt (Mekhi Phifer), a brash, third-year resident with a checkered background that won�t stop haunting him.

Recent additions to the ER include Neela Rasgotra (Parminder Nagra), a British-Indian medical student who arrives in Chicago after finishing her undergraduate degree in biophysics and molecular biology at Yale. Samantha Taggart (Linda Cardellini) is a nurse and spirited single mother determined to save lives in a place where nothing is taken for granted. Dr. Ray Barnett (Shane West) has come aboard as a doctor who would sometimes rather be playing in his band than treating patients. He has a way with the ladies and a knack for making things go smoothly, most of the time.

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Maria Bello was born on April 18. She was born and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She went to Villanova University, where she majored in political science.

Sherry Stringfield was born in Colorado Springs as oldest of three children, but mainly raised in Spring, TX. In high school she did both athletics and acting.

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