Chicago Med

Premise

Cast

Main

• Nick Gehlfuss as Dr. Will Halstead, a former plastic surgeon, who at the start of the series becomes an ED supervising attending physician. He is originally from Chicago and is the older brother of Chicago P.D. character Detective Jay Halstead. He was engaged to Dr. Natalie Manning in seasons three and four. He resigns from Chicago Med at the end of the eighth season after sabotaging Jack Dayton's OR 2.0 to prove its defects, and moves to Seattle to reunite with Natalie and her son.
• Yaya DaCosta as April Sexton, a first-generation Brazilian-American ED Senior Nurse. She has a younger brother, Noah, who began as a third-year medical student at the hospital. She is also a childhood friend of Chicago Fire character Kelly Severide. In the sixth season, she is accepted into a nurse practitioner program in order to do more in caring for patients and in the seventh-season premiere "You Can't Always Trust What You See", it is revealed that she has started the program. She later returns in the eighth season after completing the program. She and Dr. Ethan Choi rekindle their relationship during this time, and marry in the middle of the season, with the intent of starting a mobile clinic for the impoverished people in the community.
• Torrey DeVitto as Dr. Natalie Manning, an ED Paediatrics Fellow who did a fellowship in emergency medicine in the first season and becomes an attending in the emergency pediatrics division in the fifth season. She is a widow, coping with the loss of her husband, Jeff, who was killed in action while serving in the U.S. military. In the first-season episode "Bound", she gives birth to her son Owen. In the seventh-season premiere "You Can't Always Trust What You See", she is fired by Sharon Goodwin and moves back to Seattle with Owen after admitting that she stole drugs for her sick mother from her ex-fiancé Dr. Halstead's clinical trial. She later reunites with Halstead following his resignation at the end of season eight.
• Rachel DiPillo as Dr. Sarah Reese, originally a fourth-year medical student, who does not feel drawn to emergency medicine and would rather become a pathologist. After she graduates from medical school, she immediately leaves pathology and becomes a First year resident in psychiatry, thanks to Dr. Daniel Charles in the season 2 premiere. In the fourth-season premiere "Be My Better Half", she transfers from Chicago Med to Baylor after Dr. Charles finds out her father is a suspected serial killer and they have a falling-out. She returns in Season 10, and following yet another argument with Dr. Charles about a patient's care, was able to make peace with her former mentor.
• Colin Donnell as Dr. Connor Rhodes, a Trauma and Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow from Chicago, who spent some time in Riyadh following his residency. In the first season, he is a trauma surgery fellow, but switches his specialty to cardiothoracic surgery. In the fifth season premiere "Never Going Back to Normal", he leaves Med, and Chicago completely, for a fresh start after the deaths of his father Cornelius Rhodes and his rival and ex-girlfriend Dr. Ava Bekker, who died by suicide after murdering Cornelius to win Connor back.
• Brian Tee as Lieutenant Commander Dr. Ethan Choi, United States Navy Reserve, the Attending Physician of Emergency Medicine specialising in infectious diseases who just returned to the United States after serving on the as a medical officer. He marries April Sexton in the middle of the eighth season and leaves Chicago Med afterwards to start a mobile clinic for the impoverished people in the community with her.
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Sharon Goodwin, a former ED Charge Nurse and a Board-certified critical care nurse who currently is the Executive Director of Patient and Medical Services of Gaffney Chicago Medical Center.
• Oliver Platt as Dr. Daniel Charles, the Chief of Psychiatry and Behavioural Health, who is usually tasked with helping the other doctors deal with the psychological nuances of medicine or difficult patients. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
• Marlyne Barrett as Maggie Lockwood, the ED Charge Nurse and a Board-certified EMT-paramedic., the ED's charge nurse who is not afraid to speak her mind when it comes to schooling the residents, but she is caring and kind and fights for her patients. In the fifth season, she is diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, but is later cured and she marries former cancer patient Ben Campbell. She leaves Med temporarily after the tenth season for personal reasons.
• Norma Kuhling as Dr. Ava Bekker, a South Africa Second Year Fellow/later Attending Physician in Cardiothoracic Surgery. She butts heads with Dr. Connor Rhodes on professional boundaries, and eventually their rivalry becomes a romantic relationship, which eventually ends after Connor's father alleges that Ava seduced and slept with him to persuade him to fund Connor's hybrid OR. In the fourth-season finale "With a Brave Heart", Connor turns her down in reconciling their relationship and then suspects her of killing his father. In the fifth-season premiere "Never Going Back to Normal", she dies by suicide after admitting to killing Connor's father in a last-ditch effort to win him back.
• Dominic Rains as Dr. Crockett Marcel, a new trauma surgeon fellow at Chicago Med introduced in the fifth season. At the end of the ninth season, he is devastated when a young patient, for whom he had to cancel a life-saving kidney transplant due to a last-minute infection, succumbs to his disease. Immediately after, the boy's aggrieved father commits suicide. The experience reminded Marcel of his own daughter's death, and in the tenth-season premiere, it is revealed he has moved to Boston for a fresh start.
• Steven Weber as Dr. Dean Archer, an experienced trauma surgeon and emergency physician and a mentor to Dr. Ethan Choi, with whom he formerly served in the Navy. He eventually takes over as Chief of Emergency Medicine before becoming co-head of the department in season 10, and eventually goes back to being an attending physician after Dr. Caitlin Lenox takes over all management responsibilities.
• Guy Lockard as Dr. Dylan Scott, a pediatric emergency medicine physician. He is a former Chicago police officer who switched his career to medicine. In the eighth-season premiere "How Do You Begin to Count the Losses?", after the death of his lover Jo, an undercover cop whom he had crossed paths multiple times with during her assignment, he realizes that he will never be able to let go of his past as a police officer as long as he remains in Chicago, and leaves Med and the city altogether for a new start.
• Kristen Hager as Dr. Stevie Hammer, a new Attending Physician in Emergency Medicine and former rival of Dr. Will Halstead from medical school. After many ups and downs in dealing with her homeless, addicted, and mentally-ill mother, she moves back to Michigan halfway through the seventh season to give her marriage another chance.
• Jessy Schram as Dr. Hannah Asher, a Board-certified and attending physician in obstetrics and gynecology from Los Angeles who previously struggled with substance abuse before getting sober.
• Luke Mitchell as Dr. Mitch Ripley an ED attending physician, a former violent delinquent who had been treated by Dr. Charles and has since turned his life around.
• Sarah Ramos as Dr. Caitlin Lenox, an Army veteran and trauma General surgeon who becomes the new co-head of the ED, and eventually outright Chief of Emergency Medicine. Lenox is an often fearless physician with a measured, rational demeanor. When her compassion surfaces, it proves to be surprising, sincere, and creative.
• Darren Barnet as Dr. John Frost, an emergency pediatrics resident who joined Gaffney after the previous hospital he worked in closed. Frost is revealed to be a former teen heartthrob who was on a popular television series.

  Recurring

• Julie Berman as Dr. Samantha "Sam" Zanetti, an attending trauma surgeon who briefly dates Dr. Rhodes
• Marc Grapey as Peter Kalmick, the head of Gaffney's legal department who occasionally butts heads with Sharon Goodwin over hospital protocol. He has a husband named Lawrence and a son named Zach.
• Deron J. Powell as Tate Jenkins, a retired NFL player who begins dating Nurse April Sexton when she helps treat his son in season one. They become engaged in season two, but break it off shortly after she is infected with tuberculosis and miscarries their child.
• Jeremy Shouldis as Dr. Marty Peterson, an anesthesiologist.
• Peter Mark Kendall as Joseph "Joey" Thomas, a Pathology Lab Tech who dates Dr. Sarah Reese in seasons one and two
• Roland Buck III as Dr. Noah Sexton, a first-year ED resident and Nurse April Sexton's younger brother. In the sixth season episode "When Your Heart Rules Your Head", he is fired by Dr. Ethan Choi for negligence, due to assisting in Dr. James Coleman's suicide, and he leaves Chicago to take over Dr. Coleman's clinic in Atlanta. He later returns in the eighth season for April and Ethan's wedding.
• Brennan Brown as Dr. Samuel Abrams, the blunt Chief of Neurosurgery.
• Gregg Henry as Dr. David Downey, a high-profile cardiothoracic surgeon who takes an interest in Dr. Connor Rhodes, and dies of cancer in the first-season finale "Timing."
• D. W. Moffett as Cornelius Rhodes, the father of Dr. Connor Rhodes. He runs the family business Dolen Rhodes, a high-end department store started by his father. Connor's choice to go into medicine lead to a bitter estrangement between father and son. He is murdered by Dr. Ava Bekker, Dr. Rhodes' ex-girlfriend, via insulin overdose in fourth-season episode "Forever Hold Your Peace" in an attempt to win Dr. Rhodes back, which is revealed later in the fifth-season premiere "Never Going Back to Normal", resulting in Dr. Bekker's suicide.
• Christina Brucato as Claire Rhodes, the sister of Dr. Connor Rhodes
• Paul Farahvar as Karam Haddad
• Lorena Diaz as Nurse Dolores "Doris" Perez, a Senior ED nurse. The ED's charge nurse when Maggie is out.
• Courtney Rioux as Paramedic Courtney.
• Mia Park as Nurse Beth, OR Nurse
• Tonray Ho as Admitting Clerk Leah, a nurse who works the front reception for admittance into the ED
• Desmond Gray as Paramedic Desmond
• Cesar Jamie as Paramedic Cesar
• Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Dr. Vicki Glass, a Navy veteran and physician at the Veterans Administration hospital who briefly dates Dr. Choi
• Jodi Kingsley as DCFS Officer Madeline Gastern, a Department of Child and Family Services social worker attached to Gaffney Medical Center
• Amanda Marcheschi as Nurse Dina Garston, a Critical Care Nurse, sometimes assists in the surgical ward
• Jeff Hephner as Jeffrey Clarke, a medical student, a former Marine and Iraq veteran, and Dr. Natalie Manning's old family friend. Clarke was briefly a firefighter at Firehouse 51 before returning to medical school after an injury. Clarke briefly dates Natalie until he confesses that her late husband did not approve of his feelings for her. Clarke matches with a hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, after graduating from medical school.
• Patti Murin as Dr. Nina Shore, an attending pathologist who briefly dates Dr. Halstead
• Casey Tutton as Nurse Monique Lawson, ED nurse
• Ato Essandoh as Dr. Isidore Latham, the Attending/later Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery who supervises Dr. Connor Rhodes' fellowship. Latham has autism spectrum disorder, which sometimes makes it difficult for him to understand the emotional responses of the medical staff.
• Mekia Cox as Dr. Robin Charles, an epidemiologist and Dr. Daniel Charles' previously estranged daughter. She dates Dr. Connor Rhodes during seasons two and three.
• Eddie Jemison as Dr. Stanley Stohl, the Chief of Emergency Medicine, derisively referred to as "The Troll" by the staff because of his condescending and publicity-courting ways. In the fourth-season premiere "Be My Better Half", he is fired from Chicago Med after an arbitrary decision by Gaffney Chicago Medical Center's COO.
• Carlos Rogelio Diaz as Nurse Hank, ED nurse
• Gregory Alan Williams as Bert Goodwin Sharon's ex-husband
• James Vincent Meredith as Barry, a paramedic who is Maggie Lockwood's on-again/off-again ex-boyfriend
• Michel Gill as Dr. Robert Haywood, Dr. Sarah Reese's estranged father who was an astrophysics professor and a suspected serial killer
• Arden Cho as Emily Choi, Dr. Ethan Choi's younger and previously estranged recovering drug addict sister
• Elena Marisa Flores as Officer Anita Rosado, a Chicago police officer
• Heather Headley as Gwen Garrett, Gaffney's newly appointed Chief Operating Officer. She constantly butts heads with Sharon over hospital spending and sometimes uses her position to make retaliatory decisions against her.
• Nate Santana as Dr. James Lanik, Chief of Trauma Surgery, formerly the interim head of the ED
• C. S. Lee as Bernard "Bernie" Kim, Emily's boyfriend from Alcoholics Anonymous and father of her child
• Colby Lewis as Terry McNeal, a third year medical student who gave up a football contract with the NFL to attend medical school
• Dennis Cockrum as Ray Burke, a Chicago mobster who targets Dr. Halstead after he aids the police in investigating him
• Devin Ratray and Adam Petchel as Tommy and Tim Burke, the sons of mobster Ray Burke
• Anna Enger Ritch as Agent Ingrid Lee, an FBI agent who works with Will in an undercover investigation against Burke.
• Paula Newsome as Caroline "Cece" Charles, the first wife of Dr. Daniel Charles, who arrives at Med for a cancer treatment clinical trial, and eventually remarries him
• Molly Bernard as Elsa Curry, a third, later fourth year medical student who ends up working closely with Dr. Daniel Charles
• Ian Harding as Phillip Davis, a widowed father who is left to raise his daughter alone after his wife dies from an aneurysm in childbirth. He dates Dr. Natalie Manning during seasons four to five.
• Michael Vaughn Shaw as Mike, an X-ray technician operating in the ED
• Charles Malik Whitfield as Benjamin T. Campbell, a cancer patient who Maggie bonds with while they both undergo chemotherapy treatments. They begin dating and eventually marry, divorcing in season 9.
• Hannah Alligood as Anna Charles, teenage daughter of Daniel and Susan Charles
• Jill Abramovitz as Susan Charles, Daniel Charles' third ex-wife and mother to their daughter Anna
• Hampton Fluker as Michael Goodwin, Sharon's son, a pharmaceutical rep
• Sarah Brooks as Paramedic Juliette.
• Marie Tredway as Nurse Trinidad "Trini" Campos, ED nurse
• Lynnette Li as Nurse Nancy, ED nurse
• Tehmina Sunny as Dr. Sabeena Virani, a cardiologist with Kender Pharmaceutical Company who supervises a clinical trial for a new medication and approaches Halstead to lead the project
• Asjha Cooper as Dr. Vanessa Taylor, a first–year resident in Emergency Medicine, who initially had friction with Maggie who is her biological mother, which she prefers to keep private
• Nora Dunn as Dr. Lonnie Richardson Dr. Charles' therapist
• Bonita Friedericy as Terri Hammer, the homeless mother of Dr. Hammer
• Michael Rady as Dr. Matthew Cooper, a critical care specialist suspected of taking illegal kickbacks
• Kellee Stewart as Carmen Walker, former romantic liaison of Dr. Scott, now married to his ex-friend Terrell
• Jerod Haynes as Terrell Walker, Dr. Scott's former friend and Carmen's husband
• Anthony B. Jenkins as Darius, the Walkers' young son and a cancer patient whom Dr. Scott treats
• Deanne Lauvin as Zora Scott, Dr. Scott's sister, an officer in the Chicago PD
• Curtiss Cook as Reginald Scott, Dr. Scott's father, a lieutenant in the Chicago PD
• Sarah Rafferty as Dr. Pamela Blake, the Chief of Transplantation Surgery who clashes with, mentors, and romances Dr. Marcel
• Johanna Braddy as Avery Quinn, a malpractice attorney and daughter of Dr. Pamela Blake
• Angela Wong Carbone as Jessa Rinaldi, a product rep for Vasik Labs
• Nicolette Robinson as Tara Goodwin, Sharon's daughter
• Riley Voelkel as Milena "Jo" Jovanovic, an undercover police officer treated by Dr. Scott, who later enters a private relationship with. In the eighth-season premiere "How Do You Begin to Count the Losses", she is killed in an apartment fire, prompting Dr. Scott to leave Chicago.
• Ivan Shaw as Dr. Justin Lieu, a resident in emergency medicine
• Sasha Roiz as Jack Dayton, an entrepreneur, founder of Dayton Corp and inventor of the OR 2.0
• T. V. Carpio as Dr. Grace Song, installed at Gaffney by Dayton Corp to improve ED efficiency through tech
• Stan Shaw as Dr. George Thomas, a Retire and renowned Urologist and Gaffney's new board member promoted by Dayton
• Mishael Morgan as Dr. Petra Dupre, an expert on Dayton Corps' OR 2.0
• John Henry Ward as David Sullivan, a teenage schizophrenic treated repeatedly by Dr. Charles
• Wayne T. Carr as Grant Young, Maggie's ex and Vanessa's biological father.
• Alet Taylor as Liliana Wapniarski, a janitor at Gaffney in a romance with Dr. Charles
• Kristof Konrad as Pawel Wapniarski, brother of Liliana
• Conor Perkins as Dr. Zach Hudgins, a First year resident in emergency medicine. He is fired by Dr. Lenox after abandoning a patient during a crisis.
• Luigi Sottile as Sean Archer, the addict son of Dr. Archer
• Lilah Richcreek Estrada as Dr. Nellie Cuevas, a Psychiatry Fellow Physician and DACA recipient
• Devin Kawaoka as Dr. Kai Tanaka-Reed, a First year resident in general surgery.
• Henderson Wade as Dr. Loren Johnson, a medical helicopter pilot and trauma surgery fellow
• Sophia Ali as Dr. Zola Ahmad, a third year resident in emergency medicine
• John Earl Jelks as Dr. Dennis Washington, Chief of Hematology/Oncology at Gaffney
• Daniel Dorr as Robert "Sully" Sullivan, a cancer patient, Ripley's friend from his delinquent youth
• Natalie Zea as Jackie Nelson, a burn care nurse with a history of self-injury/cutting who transfers to the ED
• Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut as Student Doctor Naomi Howard, a third-year student doctor, later a Surgery Resident
• Logan Miller as Kip Lenox, Caitlin Lenox's younger, immature brother
• Brendan Hines as Dr. Nicholas Hayes, a renowned Cardiothoracic Surgeon
• Manish Dayal as Dr. Theo Rabari, an innovative psychiatrist on Gaffney's staff
• Gbenga Akinnagbe as David Goodwin, Sharon and Bert's oldest son
• Merrin Dungey as Dr. Jennifer Kingston, an oncologist at Gaffney
• Kim Quindlen as Nurse Kacy, a crass, outspoken ED nurse