After watching many doctors and patients come and go from Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, we always thought Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) would be the foundation character or the glue of Grey's Anatomy. But since her departure last season to pursue other work projects, we can't help but think that many of the other actors did well
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For 16 years, actress Chandra Wilson has comforted patients and terrorised medical students as Miranda Bailey, the firm but fair Chief of Surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in producer Shonda Rhimes’ hit medical drama Grey’s Anatomy.
In that time, her character has survived an heart attack, brought her obsessive compulsive disorder under control and suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage, but the new season of the series – currently filming in Los Angeles – brings even tougher challenges on screen and behind the scenes as COVID-19 comes to the Seattle hospital.
“We are starting the story in season 17 as the pandemic started to show its head,” explains Wilson during a break in filming in Los Angeles. “Being a show that takes place in Seattle, Washington [where the first US case of coronavirus was reported] it was very difficult for us to be able to avoid the effects that it was going to have on the medical community.�