Kelly McCreary, who has been taking part in the position of Maggie Pierce for 9 seasons of Gray’s Anatomy, is formally leaving Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital. Her shock exit comes on the heels of Ellen Pompeo’s departure as a sequence common from the medical drama. Her farewell episode is scheduled to premiere on April 13, although McCreary will nonetheless have a guest-star look within the Gray’s Anatomy Season 19 finale together with Pompeo’s Meredith Gray.
“After 9 seasons, I’m saying goodbye to Maggie Pierce and her Gray Sloan household. It has been an incredible honor to be part of such a legendary tv establishment as Gray’s Anatomy,” McCreary stated in a press release (through Deadline). “I’ll at all times be grateful to Shonda Rhimes, Krista Vernoff, and ABC for the chance, and to the unbelievable followers for his or her passionate assist. To spend 9 years exploring a personality inside and outside, whereas reaching a worldwide viewers with impactful tales, is a uncommon present. It has afforded me a possibility to collaborate with, study from, and be impressed by numerous good artists each in entrance of and behind the digital camera. Taking part in Maggie Pierce has been one of many true joys of my life and I go away with profound gratitude for each step of this journey. I’m excited for this subsequent chapter, and what the longer term holds.”
McCreary first appeared as Dr. Maggie Pierce throughout Season 10, the place she joined Gray Sloan to turn into the brand new head of the Cardiothoracic division after Sandra Oh’s Cristina Yang vacated the place for a job alternative in Switzerland. In a while, it was revealed that she is definitely the love little one of Dr. Richard Webber and Ellis Gray, making her Meredith’s maternal half-sister.
Gray’s Anatomy is a high-intensity medical drama following Meredith Gray and the workforce of docs at Gray Sloan Memorial who’re confronted with life-or-death choices day by day. They search consolation from each other and, at instances, extra than simply friendship. Collectively they uncover that neither medication nor relationships will be outlined in black and white.
The sequence at the moment stars Chandra Wilson as Miranda Bailey and James Pickens Jr. as Richard Webber, who’re the remaining actors left from the unique most important solid of the primary episode of the sequence. It additionally stars Kevin McKidd as Owen Hunt, Jesse Williams as Jackson Avery, Caterina Scorsone as Amelia Shepherd, and Camilla Luddington as Jo Wilson.
Gray’s Anatomy was created and is government produced by Shonda Rhimes (Scandal, The right way to Get Away with Homicide), with Krista Vernoff serving as the present showrunner. Betsy Beers (Scandal, The right way to Get Away with Homicide), Mark Gordon (Saving Personal Ryan), Krista Vernoff (Shameless), William Harper, Zoanne Clack, Debbie Allen, and Fred Einesman are government producers. Gray’s Anatomy is produced by ABC Studios.