Grey's Anatomy

***Grey's Anatomy*** is an American television series. It is a story about surgeons at the fictional Seattle Grey-Sloan Memorial Hospital (previously Seattle Grace-Mercy West Hospital and Seattle Grace Hospital). The show was created by Shonda Rhimes. It has been on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) since March 2005.

## About the series

This successful television series is about surgeons in a hospital in Seattle. They do surgeries on patients with different health issues which are hard to solve. Even with their busy lives, the doctors become good friends and sometimes even fall in love with each other.

The American show was created by Shonda Rhimes. It was mostly filmed in Los Angeles, California and has been shown on ABC since March 27, 2005.

The series has had much success with 19 seasons and 421 episodes. A new twentieth season started showing on March 14, 2024. The TV show won a Golden Globe Award in 2007 for the best dramatic TV series, and it also has been awarded two nominations at the Emmy Awards for the same reason. This dramatic medical comedy has been produced in many languages and countries, like Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

_Grey’s Anatomy_ got its name from a textbook by Henry Gray, written in 1858, which reached its 40th edition in 2008. The title of the text is _Anatomy of the Human Body_. It has many surgical applications and is a medicinal classic of the human anatomy.

## Cast

|Actor||Role||Functions||Starring||Image|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|**Ellen Pompeo**|Meredith Grey|Started as a surgical intern, became a surgical resident, was head of general surgery, and now is the chief of surgery|Season 1 - present||||||
|**Sandra Oh**|Christina Yang|Started as a surgical intern, then as a surgical resident, and finished as a heart surgeon|Season 1 - 10||||||
|**Katherine Heigl**|Isobel "Izzie" Stevens|Started as a surgical intern and finished as a third-year surgical resident|Season 1 - 6||||||
|**Justin Chambers**|Alex Karev|Started as a surgical intern, then as a surgical resident, and is currently a pediatric surgeon|Season 1 - 16||||||
|**T.R. Knight**|George O'Malley|Started as a surgical intern and finished as a third-year surgeon resident|Season 1 - 5 and 17||||||
|**Chandra Wilson**|Miranda Bailey|Started as a surgical resident and is now chief of surgery|Season 1 - present||||||
|**James Pickens, Jr.**|Richard Webber|Began as Chief of Surgery and is now a general surgeon|Season 1 - present||||||
|**Kate Walsh**|Addison Montgomery|She is an obstetrics surgeon|Season 2 - 3 and 18||||||
|**Sara Ramirez**|Callie Torres|Started as a surgical resident and was head of orthopedic surgery|Season 2 - 12||||||
|**Eric Dane**|Mark Sloan|He was a plastic surgeon|Season 2 - 8 and 17||||||
|**Chyler Leigh**|Lexie Grey|She was a surgical intern and then a surgical resident, focusing on neurosurgery before her death|Season 4 - 8 and 17||||||
|**Kevin McKidd**|Owen Hunt|Started as a trauma surgeon and is currently head of trauma surgery|Season 5 - present||||||
|**Jessica Capshaw**|Arizona Robbins|Started as a pediatric surgeon and is currently head of pediatric surgery|Season 5 - 14||||||
|**Kim Raver**|Teddy Altman|She was head of cardiothoracic surgery and left to run MEDCOM in Germany. She is returning though|Season 6 - 8 and 15 - present||||||
|**Jesse Williams**|Jackson Avery|Started as a surgical resident and is now the head of plastics.|Season 6 - 17 and 18||||||
|**Sarah Drew**|April Kepner|Started as a surgical resident and is now a trauma surgeon|Season 6 - 14 and 18||||||
|**Brooke Smith**|Erica Hahn|She is a cardiac surgeon|Season 3 - 5||||||
|**Isaiah Washington**|Preston Burke|He is a cardiac surgeon|Season 1 - 3 and 9||||||
|**Patrick Dempsey**|Derek Shepherd|He is head of neurosurgery|Season 1 - 11 and 17||||||
|**Caterina Scorsone**|Amelia Shepherd|The Current head of neurosurgery|Season 10-present||||||

## Other websites

- Answers website: "Henry Gray"

## Infobox (television)

- **image**: Grey's Anatomy Logo.svg
- **creator**: Shonda Rhimes
- **narrated**: Ellen Pompeo
and other actors
- **theme music composer**: Psapp
- **opentheme**: "Cosy in the Rocket"
(seasons 1–3, 7, 14)
- **endtheme**: "Cosy in the Rocket" (instrumental)
- **composer**: Danny Lux
- **country**: United States
- **language**: English
- **num seasons**: 22
- **num episodes**: 459
- **location**: Seattle, Washington
- **camera**: Single-camera
- **runtime**: 43–53 minutes
- **network**: American Broadcasting Company, ABC
- **last aired**: present