"Clinic": actors of the comedy series

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

This cheerful, kind and very wise series is known and loved by many. "Clinic" was filmed for almost ten years, and during this time she has gained millions of fans in the US and other countries. What is the reason for its such popularity? Good humor, funny and ridiculous situations that the characters get into, real human problems and even tragedies, good music and bright characters - all this is the Clinic series. Actors and roles in it are chosen perfectly. It is thanks to this that it is interesting to watch it today.

Brief description of the series and characters

The story begins with interns John Dorian (J. D.) and Christopher Turk joining the Sacred Heart clinic. They are young, full of energy and a desire to help people, but they still have a lot to learn on the path to building a medical career.

JD becomes a therapist and Turk becomes a surgeon. The first begins a relationship with the intern Elliot Reed, the second with the nurse Carla Espinosa. Dr. Dorian is mentored by the cynical and enthusiastic Percival Cox, and he will work under the guidance of a competent but very strict chief physician, Robert Kelso. In addition, the bright hero of the story isA janitor who for some reason does not like Dr. Dorian and clearly shows his attitude to him.

The actors of the series "Clinic", who embodied these characters, will be presented below. But since the main character, on whose behalf the story is being told, is John Dorian, it is about him that we will talk first.

John Dorian – Zach Braff

John Dorian from the first to the ninth season of the series goes from a young and naive intern to a confident senior physician and professor of medical college. JD loves his job and quickly learns all the intricacies of the profession, although this is not always easy. In the course of the story, he falls in love with Elliot Reed, a child appears, but from another woman.

John Dorian was brilliantly played by American actor Zach Braff. During the filming of "Clinic", he discovered his directorial talent and even directed several episodes of the series. Later in this role, he worked on the films Gardenland and Wish I Was Here, which received high praise from film critics.

Zach Braff is single, and his girlfriends over the years have been Bonnie Somerville, Mandy Moore, Shiri Appleby and Taylor Bagley.

Another interesting fact about the actor: he provides financial assistance to an organization that is looking for a cure for autism.

Christopher Turk – Donald Faison

The actors of the series "Clinic" communicate with each other in everyday life. Turk is John Dorian's best friend on the show, and Donald Faison is Zach Braff's closest buddy. In the "Clinic" Dr. Turk -a surgeon who first falls in love with nurse Carla and then marries her. The couple has two children. Interestingly, in ordinary life, the forty-year-old actor has six children from different women. The eldest son was born to him by a girl whom he met in his youth. From his first marriage, Faison has three more children, and two from Casey Cobb, whom the actor married in 2012.

Donald Faison has been acting in films since 1992. Then in the film "Authority" he got the episodic role of a student. Then there were the series "Sabrina the Teenage Witch", "Felicity" and "Clinic". Actors Faison and Braff worked together later. In 2014, Donald played a car dealership worker in Zach Braff's Wish I Was Here.

Sarah Chock and Judy Reyes

These actresses also became famous thanks to their roles in the series "Clinic". The actors of the series starred in other films, which are definitely worth talking about.

Sarah Chalk played the role of Elliot Reed in "Scrubs". At the very beginning of the story, she began a romantic relationship with John Dorian, and then they somehow reminded of themselves in all seasons of the series. Sarah is known to the audience for her roles in the films Chaos Theory and Kill Me Later, she also appeared in one of the episodes of Grey's Anatomy. The grandmother and aunt of the actress died of malignant breast tumors, so Chok starred in the film "With lipstick on the lips", where the heroine firmly decides that even a difficult diagnosis is not a reason to accept fate.

Judy Reyes performedthe role of Carla, a nurse who became Dr. Turk's wife. It is noteworthy that the actress starred in Martin Scorsese's "Resurrecting the Dead", and there she also played the role of a nurse. Judy has a twin sister.

John McGinley, Ken Jenkins and Neil Flynn

John McGinley, who plays Perry Cox in Scrubs, has worked closely with Oliver Stone throughout his career. He played Sergeant O'Neill in Platoon. He appeared in the role of Dr. Cox and in the series "Clinic: Interns".

Actor Ken Jenkins began his career in 1979 with a role in the TV series Safe Haven. In total, his "piggy bank" has about a hundred works in film and television.

Neil Flynn is best known for playing the Janitor on "Scrubs" and Mike on the sitcom It's Worse. By the way, the charismatic Janitor was not supposed to become one of the main characters. But the audience liked him so much that the creators of the series simply could not do otherwise.

Clinic Season 9 Cast

In the final season, the main character is no longer JD, but the intern girl Lucy Bennet (Kerry Bishé). Her colleagues are Drew Saffin (Michael Mosley) and Cole Aronson (David Franco). Now these young and ambitious people have a long but exciting journey from interns to qualified doctors, and Cox, Kelso and JD will help them in this.

A wonderful comedy series "Clinic" was created by talented people and at the right time. The actors did a great job, got used to their roles and that's why they fell in love with it so much.viewers.