EXCLUSIVE: It’s official: Jason George is rejoining Gray’s Anatomy as a collection common. The Station 19 star has closed a deal to affix the principle forged of the venerable ABC medical drama for the upcoming twenty first season.
George has been on Gray’s Anatomy since Season 6 as Ben Warren. He was a collection common from S12-S14 earlier than leaving to assist launch spinoff Station 19. For the previous seven seasons, George was a collection common on the firefighter drama whereas making frequent visitor appearances on the mothership collection, each produced by Shondaland and ABC Signature.
Along with George, Station 19′s essential forged included yet another Gray’s Anatomy transplant, Stefania Spampinato who reprised her function as Carina. For now, there aren’t any plans for her to return to the mothership however there may be all the time a risk for her to pop in as a visitor star, one thing Gray’s Anatomy does regularly with its alums.
George is rejoining the medical drama as it’s getting ready to bid farewell to 2 collection regulars, Jake Borelli and Midori Francis, who will probably be again within the fall to wrap their characters’ arcs.
Ben’s Season 7 storyline on Station 19 had him tapping increasingly more into his medical expertise whereas questioning his future as a firefighter in gentle of his shoulder harm, establishing a possible return to Gray Sloan. It culminated within the Station 19 collection finale, during which Ben informed Captain Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz) that he was going again to complete his surgical residency. (In 2017, as a fifth 12 months resident at Gray Sloan, Ben discovered a strategy to discover a dream second profession as a firefighter with out jeopardizing his probabilities at going again in the future ought to he select to take action.)
After all, Ben all the time has had a private connection to Gray Sloan by means of his marriage to Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), which was revisited with one remaining crossover within the Gray’s Anatomy Season 20 finale.
George has been within the Shondaland household for greater than twenty years. Along with his runs on Gray’s Anatomy and Station 19, he additionally was a collection common on the corporate’s 2011 medical drama Off The Map. The actor, who’s a board member of the SAG-AFTRA Basis, is repped by Unbiased Artist Group and Yorn, Levine, Barnes.