Meet the New Residents of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 19: Alexis Floyd, Adelaide Kane and More
usmagazine.comNew docs on the block! Grey’s Anatomy will feature a few fresh faces when season 19 premieres this fall — and the residents all have very different backstories.During the season 18 finale, which aired in May, viewers said goodbye to Grey Sloan’s surgical residents following the shutdown on the teaching program.
The new season will see the return of the program, but the aspiring doctors who are learning from Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and her peers will be new.On July 19, ABC announced the newest cast member: Alexis Floyd.
She will portray first-year surgical resident Simone Griffin, who has a complicated history with the hospital, per Deadline.The Inventing Anna alum, 28, is no stranger to Shonda Rhimes’ TV world, having played Neff on the 2022 miniseries.
In fact, Floyd says she welcomes the challenge of coming into the beloved medical drama nearly 20 years after it premiered.“Grey’s Anatomy, like all of Shonda’s canon, is a genre redefining show that remains masterfully committed to diversity, relevancy and vulnerability,” Floyd told Deadline in July. “Joining the cast in its 19th season is an immeasurable honor, and quite simply, it’s gonna be wicked fun.”ABC has since added Niko Terho, Midori Francis and Adelaide Kane to the roster of newbie residents.
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