Inventing Anna's Alexis Floyd is staying with Shondaland and has joined the cast of Grey's Anatomy for the medical drama's upcoming 19th season.
According to Deadline, the star will be playing Simone Griffin, a funny, high achieving first-year surgical resident at Grey Sloan.
She has a "complicated family dynamic" and, though she grew up in Seattle, she's never been tempted to work at Grey Sloan due to a "painful personal history with the hospital".
Floyd will be a series regular on the show. On joining the cast, she shared: "Grey’s Anatomy, like all of Shonda's canon, is a genre re-defining show that remains masterfully committed to diversity, relevancy and vulnerability.
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