Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy

Grey's Anatomy TV Show - Grey's Anatomy Television Show

Airs: Sunday 10:00 PM on ABC (60 mins)

Status: Returning Series
Premiered March 27, 2005
Show Category: Drama , Comedy

Meet Meredith Grey. She's a woman trying to lead a real life while doing a job that makes having a real life impossible.

Meredith is a first year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital, the toughest surgical residency program west of Harvard. She and fellow first-year interns Cristina Yang, Izzie Stevens, George O'Malley and Alex Karev were students yesterday. Today they're doctors and, in a world where on the job training can be a matter of life and death, they're all juggling the ups and downs of their own personal lives.

The five interns struggle to form friendships in this most stressful and competitive atmosphere. Meredith's medical ambition is overshadowed by a troubling secret: Her mother, a noted pioneering surgeon, is struggling with a tragic and devastating illness. Cristina is a study in contradiction; highly competitive and driven, she eschews any favors in order to make it on her own. Isobel "Izzie" Stevens is the small-town girl who grew up dirt poor and, in spite of paying for her medical career by modeling, still struggles with her self-esteem. George O'Malley is the warm but insecure boy next door who always manages to do or say the wrong thing at the wrong time. In spite of his attraction to women, he's treated as "just one of the girls." And Alex Karev, the intern the other interns love to have, masks his working class roots with arrogance and ambition.

The interns are guided by an established team of doctors who are determined to shape them into skilled surgeons or break them: Miranda Bailey, a senior resident responsible for training them, is so tough that she's nicknamed "The Nazi." Derek Shepherd is the flirtatious but very capable surgeon who shares a forbidden but undeniable sexual attraction with Meredith. Preston Burke's arrogance is second only to his skill with a scalpel. Overseeing them all is Dr. Richard Webber, Seattle Grace's paternal, but no-nonsense chief of surgery.

Grey's Anatomy focuses on young people struggling to be doctors and doctors struggling to stay human. It's the drama and intensity of medical training mixed with the funny, sexy, painful lives of interns who are about to discover that neither medicine nor relationships can be defined in black and white. Real life only comes in shades of grey.Chandra Wilson
Role: Miranda Bailey

Chandra Wilson is so pleased to have been selected by The New York Times as one of "8 to Watch , Onstage and Behind the Scenes" for the Spring of 2004!!

Katherine Heigl
Role: Isobel "Izzie" Stevens

zodiac sign: Sagittarius Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister Backround: Katherine got her start modeling for Sears catalogs.

Patrick Dempsey
Role: Derek Shepherd

Born 13th January 1966 in Lewiston Maine and the youngest of three children, the Irish American, Patrick Dempsey showed he had incredible talent from an early age.

James Pickens Jr.
Role: Richard Webber

A Cleveland, Ohio native, James Pickens Jr. is an acting veteran who has appeared in numerous television shows, movies and plays.