Grey's Anatomy is an American television medical drama that premiered on the American Broadcasting Company, on March 27, 2005. The series' protagonist is Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), a surgical resident, who enrolls in the internship program at the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, located in Seattle. The show's premise originated with Shonda Rhimes. The show’s executive producers are Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Mark Gordon, Krista Vernoff, Rob Corn, Mark Wilding, and Allan Heinberg. It is largely filmed in Los Angeles, California.
Alexandra Caroline Grey, more commonly known as Lexie Grey, was a fictional surgeon from the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character was portrayed by Chyler Leigh, and was created by Shonda Rhimes. As Meredith Grey's formerly unidentified half-sister, she was made an official series regular for season four as she began her surgical internship. She has photographic memory and became a surgical resident at the fictional Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital. She had an on-again off-again relationship with Mark Sloan after having fallen for several other coworkers, including Alex Karev. After finally confessing her undying love for Mark, Lexie died of injuries sustained in a plane crash in the final episode of Season 8.
Lexie is the daughter of Thatcher Grey and his wife, Susan. She also has a younger sister, Molly Grey Thompson. Her older half-sister is Meredith Grey, born to Thatcher and his first wife, Ellis Grey. She graduated from Harvard Medical School before being accepted to Seattle Grace as an intern. She was to start her internship at Massachusetts General but her mom's sudden death brought her to Seattle. She was very popular in high school, had a great group of friends, was crowned prom queen, and became class valedictorian. During her elementary school years, she skipped the third grade. Lexie has a photographic memory, having read all of her fellow residents' files and memorized everything in them. This was highlighted in the fifth season when she remembered an illness she came across while reading medical journals for George's review. She not only remembered the diagnosis but the name of the journal, the volume number and the page number of the article -- which in turn led her to be nicknamed "Lexipedia" by Alex Karev and Cristina Yang.
Ellen Pompeo was born on November 10, 1969. She is an actress, known for playing the role of Meredith Grey on the ABC show Grey's Anatomy.
Ellen Kathleen Pompeo was born in Everett, Massachusetts, the daughter of Joseph, a salesman, and Kathleen Pompeo. Of Irish and Italian descent, she was raised Roman Catholic. Pompeo's grandfather was born in Gesualdo, a village in the Province of Avellino, Italy.[citation needed] Her mother died of a painkiller overdose when Ellen was four, and her father remarried soon after. She has five siblings: three sisters and two brothers. She was nicknamed the pencil, and Stracciatella (an Italian egg drop soup).
For more than two years, she served cocktails in Miami, where she met fashion photographer Andrew Rosenthal, with whom she was romantically linked for some time.[citation needed] In 1996, she was bartending at the SoHo Bar & Grill in New York City's Upper West Side when an agent approached her to appear in commercials.[citation needed] Subsequently, she appeared in commercials for Citibank and L'Oréal.[citation needed] She began her career with minor roles on television shows like Strangers with Candy, Friends and Law & Order and a handful of others.
Sandra Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for the role of Dr. Cristina Yang on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, for which she has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards. She has also played notable roles in the feature films Under the Tuscan Sun and Sideways, and had a supporting role on the HBO original series Arli$$. Other films she has appeared in include The Night Listener, Blindness and Rabbit Hole.
Oh was born in the Ottawa suburb of Nepean, to middle-class Korean immigrant parents Joon-Soo (John) and Young-Nam, who had come to Canada in the early 1960s. Her father is a businessman and her mother a biochemist. Oh has a brother, Ray, and a sister, Grace. She grew up living on Camwood Crescent in Nepean, where she began acting and ballet at an early age. At the age of 10, she played The Wizard of Woe in a class musical, The Canada Goose.[citation needed]
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor, known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd ("McDreamy") on the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Prior to Grey's Anatomy he made several television appearances and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He has also appeared in several films, including Sweet Home Alabama, Made of Honor, Valentine's Day, Flypaper, Freedom Writers, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Dempsey was born in Lewiston, Maine, and grew up in Buckfield, Maine. His mother, Amanda M. (née Caisson), was a school secretary, and his father, William A. Dempsey, was an insurance salesman. He attended Buckfield High School and St. Dominic Regional High School. He was an adept juggler, tying for second in a national juggling competition. He was also an accomplished skier and while in high school won the Maine state slalom championship.
As a child, Dempsey attended Camp Wekeela located in Hartford, Maine.
Dempsey was diagnosed with dyslexia at age twelve. He told Barbara Walters on her 2008 Oscar special that he thinks dyslexia "made him what he is today." “It’s given me a perspective of — you have to keep working,” Dempsey told Walters. “I have never given up.”