The Resident (TV series)

Cast and characters

Main

• Matt Czuchry as Dr. Conrad Theodore Hawkins: the titular resident. A third-year resident in Internal Medicine at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, he is a former Navy Corpsman who served with the Marines in Afghanistan, which is where he learned some of his unconventional medical techniques. It is mentioned that Hawkins suffers from PTSD.
• Emily VanCamp as Nicolette 'Nic' Marie Nevin, a nurse practitioner at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is Conrad's love interest, and they marry after years together. A caring and compassionate nurse, Nic will go the extra mile for her patients.
• Manish Dayal as Dr. Devon Pravesh: a first-year resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. A Yale University and Harvard Medical School grad, Devon is shocked and amazed by Conrad's unconventional medical practices in the pilot, going as far as to ask for a replacement resident. Eventually, Conrad rubs off on him and Devon becomes an excellent and capable doctor.
• Shaunette Renée Wilson as Mina Okafor: a second-year surgical resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is very intelligent and does not care for anyone's opinion, which AJ Austin seems to find intriguing. In season 4, after losing a fight over her expiring visa, Mina decides to return to her home country of Nigeria willingly rather than be deported or continue to fight the deportation.
• Bruce Greenwood as Randolph Bell: Chief of Surgery, later CEO, and a general surgeon at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. He leaves his CEO position on his own accord, and threatens Red Rock to try to get rid of him due to his iron clad contract. He is later demoted from Chief of Surgery in season 3 by Red Rock and starts his own talk show, Ring the Bell. In season 5, he is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Throughout the series, Bell is clearly attracted to Kit Voss, who becomes one of his closest friends. By Season 5, they begin to date and in Season 6, they get married.
• Merrin Dungey as Claire E. Thorpe, the original CEO of Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is fired by the board after Drs. Hunter and Bell accuse her of financial practices that endanger patients at Chastain. She is succeeded as CEO by Bell.
• Melina Kanakaredes as Lane Hunter : a double board-certified physician in oncology and Radiation Oncology, as well as the former head of Oncology at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She also owned her own medical clinics. She is arrested at the end of season 1 after it is revealed that she has been giving her patients unnecessary chemotherapy in order to get paid higher premiums and had deliberately killed a patient and framed Nic for it to cover up her crimes. She is later killed during season 2 by a vengeful family member of one of her over-treated patients after being let out on bail.
• Moran Atias as Renata Morali, the Head of Publicity at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She leaves the hospital alongside Claire Thorpe following the latter's firing.
• Malcolm-Jamal Warner as August Jeremiah "AJ / The Raptor" Austin : a triple-board certified surgeon in Cardiothoracic, General and Trauma Surgery who joins Chastain Park Memorial Hospital at Bell's and Okafor's urging.
• Glenn Morshower as Marshall Winthrop, a businessman and Conrad's estranged father. He becomes chairman of Chastain's board in season 2. Later he steps down to take over and reform the medical device company QuoVadis. It had been operated under false claims by its founder and CEO Gordon Page, who has died.
• Jane Leeves as Elizabeth Katherine "Kit" Voss :, the head of orthopaedic surgery, and a fiery doctor who strongly advocates for her patients. In season 4, after Chastain becomes a public hospital, she calls out the Governor of Georgia for only interviewing men for the new CEO position. Due to her leadership skills, the Governor offers Kit the CEO position. Kit remains the CEO through the end of the series, becoming one of the first CEOs to get Chastain into the black. Throughout the series, she maintains a close friendship with Dr. Bell, encouraging him become a better person. They begin dating in Season 5, and marry in Season 6.
• Morris Chestnut as Barrett Cain : a renowned neurosurgeon, promoted by Red Rock to Chief of Surgery after they demote Bell.
• Jessica Lucas as Billie Sutton : a neurosurgery resident at Chastain and Nic's lifelong close friend. In season 5, she becomes the new Chief of Surgery. In season 6, she and Conrad start dating.
• Anuja Joshi as Leela Devi : a new surgical intern at Chastain who struggles with dyslexia while trying to prove herself in the operating room. After the time jump, she is now a resident at Chastain, living with Devon after a four-year relationship and figuring out her life with the help of her twin sister, Padma.
• Miles Fowler as Trevor Daniels, a First Year Anaesthesiology Resident and Billie's biological son, whom she gave up after birth due to being conceived from a rape when she was 13 years old. He later leaves Chastain during season 5 and takes work at a medical research company.
• Kaley Ronayne as Kincaid "Cade" Sullivan, an attending Physician who is double board-certified in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine.
• Andrew McCarthy as Ian Sullivan, an Attending Physician and a renowned pediatric surgeon and Cade's estranged father.

  Recurring

• Tasie Lawrence as Priya Nair, a reporter and Devon's former fiancée.
• Michael Hogan as Dr. Albert Nolan, a trauma surgery attending of Chastain Park Memorial Hospital.
• Violett Beane as Lily Elizabeth Kendall, one of Lane's chemotherapy patients.
• Warren Christie as Dr. Jude Silva, a trauma attending.
• Tasso Feldman as Dr. Irving Feldman, an ER doctor. He elopes with Jessica Moore in season 4's "Doors Opening, Doors Closing" after getting engaged to her in season 3.
• Jessica Miesel as Jessica Moore, a gossip-loving scrub nurse. She and Feldman get engaged in season 3 and then elope in season 4's "Doors Opening, Doors Closing".
• Jocko Sims as Dr. Benjamin Wilmot, an internal medicine attending.
• Patrick R. Walker as Micah Stevens, a science teacher at Sanford High School who is a repeat patient of Conrad's and Mina's former romantic interest.
• Steven Reddington as Dr. Bradley James Jenkins, a former surgical Resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital.
• Catherine Dyer as Alexis Stevens, a Nursing Supervisor at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital.
• Vince Foster as Dr. Paul Chu, the Chief of Anaesthesiology at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital.
• Denitra Isler as Nurse Ellen Hundley, the head ER nurse at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital.
• Michael Weston as Gordon Page, founder and former CEO of Quovadis.
• Jenna Dewan as Julian Booth, former medical device representative for Quovadis.
• Julianna Guill as Jessie Nevin : Nic's sister.
• Daniella Alonso as Zoey Barnett, a mother to two of Conrad and Nic's patients.
• Evan Whitten as Henry Barnett, Zoey's oldest son.
• Miles Gaston Villanueva as Dr. Alec Shaw, a Family Medicine & Infectious Disease Physician at Chastain Park Memorial.
• Corbin Bernsen as Kyle Nevin, Nic and Jessie's father.
• Christopher B. Duncan as Brett Slater, Kit's ex-husband and father of her children.
• Radek Lord as Grayson Betournay, Bell's assistant.
• Mike Pniewski as Dr. Abe Benedict, AJ's mentor and an esteemed cardiothoracic surgeon.
• Kearran Giovanni as Andrea Braydon : A fitness teacher looking for investors for her fitness supplement. She and AJ Austin date during season 3, but they break up early in season 4.
• Geoffrey Cantor as Zip Betournay, Grayson's father and investor in Andrea's fitness supplement.
• Michael Paul Chan as Yee Austin, AJ's adoptive father. In season 5, he's mentioned to have died.
• Erinn Westbrook as Adaku Eze, Mina's friend.
• David Alan Grier as Lamar Broome, AJ's biological father.
• Denise Dowse and Summer Selby as Carol Austin, AJ's adoptive mother. In season 4, she developed terminal lung cancer, and died in season 5.
• Adriane Lenox as Dr. Bonnie Broome, AJ's biological mother.
• Rob Yang as Logan Kim, VP of Red Rock Mountain Medical and former CEO of Chastain; he is fired in the second episode of season 4.
• Shazi Raja as Nadine Suheimat, Devon's VIP patient and later love interest.
• Matt Battaglia as Bill Landry, The owner of Georgia FC and later a patient at Chastain who hires Conrad as his team doctor for saving one of his players' lives.
• Conrad Ricamora as Jake Wong, a plastic surgeon, amateur musician and Bell's former step-son who accepts a job at Chastain. In season 5, he has left the hospital, but he remains in Bell's life.
• Nichelle Hines as Nichelle Randall, A Congresswoman and a patient at Chastain who later becomes the Governor of Georgia and is instrumental in saving Chastain from closing.
• Cara Ricketts as Rose Williams, A dance teacher with sickle cell anemia and a patient of Devon's. While in physical therapy, she befriends Barrett Cain who is inspired by her no-nonsense attitude and refusal to give up in the face of tremendous odds but he resists forming a romantic relationship after the traumatic death of his ex-girlfriend on Cain's operating table. Rose undergoes an experimental gene therapy developed by an old friend of Devon's in an effort to cure her condition. The gene therapy ultimately proves to be successful. Rose is cured and starts a relationship with Cain.
• Stephen Wallem as Winston Robards
• Aneesha Joshi as Padma Devi, Leela's free- spirited twin sister, who shakes things up in Leela's life when she comes to visit. A survivor of leukemia, she became infertile because of chemo. She wants to live in the present and becomes a Wellness coach. Her sister is a resident in surgery.
• Remington Blaire Evans as Gigi Hawkins, Conrad and Nic's daughter.
• Steven Culp as Governor Mark Betz, the newly elected governor who is set on slashing Chastain Park's budget to the point of closure but becomes a patient at Chastain after a helicopter crash.
• Landon Ashworth as Donald Killian, a new scrub tech blackmailed by Gov. Betz to find dirt on Dr. Bell after being exposed by him during a press conference.
• Ian Anthony Dale as Dr. James Yamada, an interventional cardiologist who becomes a love interest for Billie.