As the Grey’s Anatomy family mourns the death of Eric Dane, Katherine Heigl has paid tribute to the late actor in a statement.
On Sunday, the actress who played Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC medical drama for six seasons said she was “grateful I got to bask in” Dane’s gold before he died at age 53 on Thursday, following a year-long struggle with ALS.
“I debated this post for days. I have never been comfortable grieving publicly,” she started in the Instagram caption. “I share my tears, my stories and my memories with those I’m closest to and more times than not I share them only with the heavens alone. But that silence can often look like a lack of care which I could not abide here.
“Rebecca, Billie, Georgia… There is so little, if in fact anything, one can say about a tragic loss like yours. All the ‘I’m sorries’ and ‘my prayers are with you’ ring a bit hollow in the midst of so much pain and grief. So I will say the only thing that has ever brought me peace when I’ve lost someone I love. It is Robert Frost’s poem ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ of which I have tattooed on my body in my parent’s handwriting so I will never forget that the moment of gold was worth it.”
Heigl included the poem, “‘Natures first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; but only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, so Dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.’ I will never forget Eric’s gold and I will forever be grateful I got to bask in it for even a brief moment in time. Thank you for sharing him with us. God Speed my old friend…here’s to your next great adventure.”
On Thursday, Dane’s family announced that he died after revealing his ALS diagnosis last April. “With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” they said in a statement. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world.”
Many remember Dane as Dr. Mark Sloan, the instantly recognizable “McSteamy” of Grey’s Anatomy. But his career extended far beyond one nickname or one towel scene. Over two decades, Dane appeared in action thrillers, superhero films, prestige cable dramas, and romantic comedies, displaying a versatility that surprised viewers who only knew him from television.
Grey’s Anatomy
Dane joined Grey’s Anatomy as a guest star in 2006 and became a series regular by Season 3. That infamous towel scene, when Mark Sloan emerged from the shower, became a cultural moment, dubbed a “watercooler moment” by the show itself.
But Dane’s performance was more than eye candy. Mark Sloan’s journey from a self-absorbed womanizer to a devoted father figure and Lexie Grey’s true love offered Dane an emotional arc rich with complexity. Over six seasons, he balanced charm, arrogance, vulnerability, and heartbreak in a way that made Mark Sloan a fully realized character. Dane left the show in 2012, ending one chapter of his career while setting the stage for new challenges.
Euphoria
As Cal Jacobs in Euphoria, Dane delivered one of his most intense performances. Cal is a closeted father whose repressed desires turn into predatory behavior. Dane’s portrayal required the ability to evoke both sympathy and discomfort, showing a man broken by shame who also harms others.
Acting alongside Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, and Jacob Elordi, Dane’s work stood out in a series famous for its raw approach to trauma. He continued filming Season 3 even after his ALS diagnosis, with those episodes scheduled to premiere on April 12, 2026. Knowing his real-life circumstances adds an additional layer of admiration for his dedication and courage.
The Last Ship
After leaving Grey’s Anatomy, Dane took his first leading role in TNT’s The Last Ship, produced by Michael Bay. He played Navy Commander Tom Chandler, tasked with saving humanity after a global pandemic wipes out 80% of the population.
The series, which ran from 2014 to 2018, combined action, leadership, and high-stakes drama. Dane carried the show with authority, portraying Chandler as both strong and human, capable of doubt, fear, and hope. Unlike other roles that emphasized his looks, here he anchored a show with gravitas, proving his range as an actor. In hindsight, the show’s pandemic storyline has a new resonance, highlighting the intensity of Dane’s performance.
X-Men: The Last Stand
Dane appeared briefly as Jamie Madrox, also known as Multiple Man, in Brett Ratner’s 2006 X-Men sequel. Playing a mutant who creates duplicates of himself, Dane was a henchman for Ian McKellen’s Magneto during the film’s climactic battle.
Though small, the role demonstrates Dane’s willingness to embrace comic book and genre projects early in his career. It’s a reminder that he could navigate both serious drama and playful, imaginative worlds with ease.
Marley & Me
In Marley & Me (2008), Dane played Sebastian Tunney, a polished colleague who receives the more glamorous assignments while Owen Wilson’s character is left with mundane work.
While the film focuses on John and Jennifer Grogan’s family life with a mischievous Labrador, Dane’s presence adds charm and subtle humor. He never overshadows the leads but enhances the dynamic, proving his ability to support and complement a story rather than dominate it.
Burlesque
In the 2010 musical Burlesque, Dane played Marcus, a wealthy developer threatening to buy and demolish the titular club. Starring Cher and Christina Aguilera, the film is flamboyant and campy, and Dane leans fully into the role of the slick villain.
The movie required him to play a foil without undermining its over-the-top tone. He brought a grounded presence to a world of glittering costumes and big musical numbers, balancing charisma with menace.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die
His co-star Martin Lawrence reflected on working with Dane after his death, writing on Instagram: “My condolences go out to the family of @realericdane 🙏🏾 I can tell you firsthand — solid brotha, true professional, and brought that presence every single time. Much love! #ericdane#badboysfamilyforlife.” Knowing Dane was already experiencing early symptoms of ALS adds depth to his appearance in the film, showing his professionalism and commitment.
Notable Mentions
While Eric Dane is best remembered for roles like Mark Sloan in Grey’s Anatomy and Cal Jacobs in Euphoria, his career included many other projects that showcase his versatility. These performances may be less well-known but are worth revisiting.
In television, Dane appeared in the mini-series Kabul (2025), a tense drama exploring conflict and human resilience, and Borderline (2025), where he played a complex character navigating moral gray areas.
His film roles spanned genres and tones. In One Fast Move (2024) and Dangerous Waters (2023), he embraced action and suspense, proving again that he could carry high-stakes roles. In character-driven stories like Americana (2023), Little Dixie (2023), and American Carnage (2022), Dane delivered layered performances that balanced charm and emotional depth.
Earlier in his career, Dane also appeared in The Ravine (2021) and the 2006 romantic comedy Wedding Wars alongside Jon Stamos, showing a lighter, approachable side to his work. Beyond these, Dane appeared in numerous supporting roles across television and film, consistently adding presence, nuance, and credibility to every project he joined.
These roles serve as a reminder that while certain characters became iconic, Eric Dane’s career was built on steady dedication, range, and a willingness to take on a wide variety of stories.
Final Performances and Legacy
Dane’s final projects included Amazon’s Countdown (June 2025) and a guest role in NBC’s Brilliant Minds (November 2025), where he played a firefighter living with ALS. His portrayal of a character confronting the same disease he faced in real life was described by co-stars as “heartbreaking” and “brave.”
In a 2025 interview with The Washington Post, Dane said, “I don’t really have a dog in the fight when it comes to worrying about what people think about me. This is more of a: ‘How can I help? How can I be of some service?’” He added, “If I’m going out, I’m gonna go out helping somebody.”
Dane’s career was defined by range, courage, and dedication. From hospital hallways to high seas, from comic book battles to intimate family dramas, he left a lasting impression that goes far beyond one nickname. Rewatching his work now is both a tribute and a reminder of the talent, heart, and resilience Eric Dane brought to every role.
Eric Dane told the world what he thinks happens after death before he passed.
In a new posthumous Netflix interview titled Famous Last Words, the Grey’s Anatomy star sat down and opened up about his afterlife thoughts. As you know, the actor died on Thursday following a battle with ALS, and recorded this special to air after he passed.
In the interview, he said:
“I have a controversial relationship with the universe right now. I think when the lights go out, it’s over. I don’t believe that there’s another place for our souls to go. I think people believe that stuff because it provides them with a lot of comfort, but I’ve really come to grips with it.”
“I think, once the lights go out, out with the old, in with the new. I think [I’ve always believed that]. I do believe that when we go to sleep or however we go, once we’re gone, we’re gone. We live on in the memories of the people that will miss us.”
Aww… Well Eric will undoubtedly live on in all of our memories. That is something we know for 100% certainty!
May he rest in peace.
What do U think happens when we die? Let us know in the comments.
Eric Dane, the actor best known for his role as “Dr. McSteamy” on Grey’s Anatomy, died Thursday at the age of 53 after a public battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS),also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Fans, family, and friends expressed their grief and appreciation for how Dane made their lives a little better.
The Fight with ALS
In April 2025, Dane publicly revealed that he had been diagnosed with ALS, although he already started having symptoms in 2024. ALS, a progressive neurological disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, often results in patients losing muscle control. By June 2025, Dane had completely lost the use of his right arm and hand. By October, he was already using a wheelchair full-time.
Rather than letting the disease define him, Dane became a vocal advocate for ALS awareness. He joined the Target ALS Board of Directors, used his platform to disseminate knowledge about the disease and highlight the urgency for research and funds to help find a cure, and even played a character with ALS in an episode of Brilliant Minds, his last TV appearance before his death.
Eric Dane, A Life and Career Remembered
Dane got into acting accidentally. His first TV guest role was in the teen sitcom Saved by the Bell in 1991. From then on, he had a steady stream of guest roles until he landed his most prominent role of Dr Mark “McSteamy” Sloan on the hit hospital drama Grey’s Anatomy. He starred as the charming doctor, who was often involved in several complicated romantic relationships from Seasons 2-9. Years later, he portrayed a darker, more complex character, Cal Jacobs, in Euphoria, a family man who lives a double life of having one-night stands with strangers. He also had a main role in Amazon Prime’s Countdown, until its cancellation.
His family shared the tragic news of his death in a statement to PEOPLEMagazine. “With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS. He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world.
“Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received. The family has asked for privacy as they navigate this impossible time.”
Dane was married to actress Rebecca Gayheart. They share two daughters.
Actor Eric Dane announced in April of 2025 that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. “I’m fighting as much as I can,” he said a few months later, shortly after finishing work on the third season of Euphoria, on which he played Cal Jacobs, the father to Jacob Elordi‘s Nate Jacobs. But ALS is an unrelenting and merciless degenerative disease, for which there is no cure. And on February 19, the 53-year-old actor died, after final days spent with friends and family.
“With heavy hearts, we share that Eric Dane passed on Thursday afternoon following a courageous battle with ALS,” Dane’s family has said via a statement shared with media. “He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world. Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight.”
Dane was born on November 9, 1972, in San Francisco, California. He fell in love with acting as a youth, after he was cast in a high school production of All My Sons. He moved to Los Angeles after graduation to seek his fortune as an actor, but it took a while for Hollywood to catch on to his easy grin and athletic charm. Eventually, he started winning small roles in the TV shows of the day: Married… with Children, Saved by the Bell, and Roseanne.
His big break was a recurring role in short-lived Y2K medical drama Gideon’s Crossing, followed soon thereafter by a central role in the later seasons of supernatural series Charmed. That combination of roles cemented Dane as the go-to for a certain type of sturdy and appealing television role, but it was his role as Dr. Mark Sloan beginning in the second season of Grey’s Anatomy that made Dane a household name—that, as well as his 2004 marriage to actor Rebecca Gayheart. Dane left the show six years later, in 2012, but reruns and syndication kept his lab-coated figure in the public eye long after that.
While he worked consistently in the years since, it was his role on Euphoria that opened a new chapter in Dane’s career. As closeted Cal Jacobs, the seemingly perfect family man living a double life, Dane received some of the best reviews of his career. As Variety‘s Daniel D’Addariowrote in 2022, “Dane is simply spectacular” in the role, citing a Jacobs-centered episode as “a high-water mark for an exceptional series.”
“I don’t know what it’s like to be Cal, but I know what it’s like to live a double life,” Dane told Vanity Fair in 2022. “I’ve had my own experience with drug and alcohol abuse. That’s a double life.
Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria and who later in life became advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53.
His representatives said Dane died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known also as Lou Gehrig’s disease, less than a year after he announced his diagnosis.
“He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world,” said a statement that requested privacy for his family. “Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received.”
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Dane developed a devoted fanbase when his big break arrived in the mid-2000s: He was cast as Dr. Mark Sloan, aka McSteamy, on the ABC medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, a role he would play from 2006 until 2012 and reprise in 2021. In 2019, he did a complete 180 from the charming McSteamy and became the troubled Cal Jacobs in HBO’s provocative drama Euphoria, a role he continued in up until his death.
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Dane also starred as Tom Chandler, the captain of a U.S. Navy destroyer at sea after a global catastrophe wiped out most of the world’s population, in the TNT drama The Last Ship. In 2017, production was halted as Dane battled depression.
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ALS gradually destroys the nerve cells and connections needed to walk, talk, speak and breathe. Most patients die within three to five years of a diagnosis.
Dane became an advocate for ALS awareness, speaking a news conference in Washington on health insurance prior authorization. “Some of you may know me from TV shows, such as Grey’s Anatomy, which I play a doctor. But I am here today to speak briefly as a patient battling ALS,” he said in June 2025. In September of that year, the ALS Network named Dane the recipient of their advocate of the year award, recognizing his commitment to raising awareness and support for people living with ALS.
Dane was born on Nov. 9, 1972 and raised in Northern California. His father, a Navy man, died of a gunshot wound when he was 7. After high school, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting, landing guest roles on shows like Saved by the Bell, Married…With Children, Charmed and X-Men: the Last Stand, and one season of the short-lived medical drama Gideon’s Crossing.
A memoir by Dane is scheduled to be published in late 2026. Book of Days: A Memoir in Moments will be released by Maria Shriver’s The Open Field, a Penguin Random House imprint. According to Open Field, Dane will look back upon key moments in his life, from his first day at work on Grey’s Anatomy to the births of his two daughters and learning that he had ALS.
“I want to capture the moments that shaped me — the beautiful days, the hard ones, the ones I never took for granted — so that if nothing else, people who read it will remember what it means to live with heart,” Dane said in a statement around the book’s announcement. “If sharing this helps someone find meaning in their own days, then my story is worth telling.”
Dane is survived by his wife, actor Rebecca Gayheart, and their two teen daughters, Billie Beatrice and Georgia Geraldine. Gayheart and Dane wed in 2004 and separated in September 2017. Gayheart filed for divorce in 2018, but later filed to dismiss the petition. In a December essay for New York magazine’s The Cut reflecting on Dane’s diagnosis, Gayheart called their dynamic “a very complicated relationship, one that’s confusing for people.” She said they never got a divorce, but dated other people and lived separately.
“Our love may not be romantic, but it’s a familial love,” she said. “Eric knows that I am always going to want the best for him. That I’m going to do my best to do right by him. And I know he would do the same for me. So whatever I can do or however I can show up to make this journey better for him or easier for him, I want to do that.”
America’s once-promising EV transition may have taken a U-turn, but at least some in Hollywood are trying to do their part. Rivian partnered with Grey’s Anatomy to make a custom electric ambulance for the long-running series.
The ambulance is a modified version of Rivian’s Commercial Van. The custom “vanbulance” serves a dual purpose: preventing on-set exhaust fumes (which could harm the cast and crew) and integrating a green storyline. “As an added benefit, the elimination of engine noise brought a welcome quiet while cameras were rolling,” Rivan wrote in a blog post.
Among other modifications, it has rear double doors instead of a roll-up one. (Rivian)
The vehicle includes some production-specific touches. Its walls and roof panels are removable, allowing cameras to reach angles required for interior shots. In addition, Rivian replaced the standard van’s rear roll-up door with double doors while adding a side entry to the cargo area. The company also added custom lighting and an exterior wrap reading “Seattle Emergency Response Services.”
The team consulted with the Huntington Beach Fire Department and the Los Angeles Fire Department to inform the interior layout. “Their feedback was invaluable to understand how first responders actually use their vehicles,” Rivian wrote.
At least Hollywood’s fictional worlds are transitioning to electric. (Rivian)
The Hollywood Reporternotes that the electric ambulance debuted in the November 13, 2025, episode of Grey’s Anatomy. However, it was featured more prominently in Thursday’s episode — hence Rivian choosing this week to highlight it.
Despite making its debut way back in 2005, Grey’s Anatomy continues its long-running journey with the ongoing Season 21. The show thereby has several actors who have been attached to the setup since its very beginning. As such, the cast has developed an endearing bond among themselves that seems to extend beyond the camera as well. In a recent discussion, actor Scott Speedman, who portrays Dr. Nick Marsh in the show, narrated several funny incidents with the crew, highlighting their companionship.
Scott Speedman says Grey’s Anatomy crew hits his hand if he makes mistakes while filming
Scott Speedman stated that a Grey’s Anatomy crew member corrects him by striking his hand if he commits mistakes while filming surgery scenes for the show.
The Canadian actor disclosed this amusing anecdote during his recent appearance on The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw. Speedman revealed that a female on-set member always calls the actor out for his faults. “There’s one lady there who just yells at me every time I’m doing a surgery scene, which I love,” he said.
Speedman further shared that the Grey’s Anatomy peer hits him on the hand if he strays away from the given instructions. “It’s just how I’m holding something, or I’m not doing something right, or she told me to do something.” he stated, adding, “She comes over and, like, hits your hand and is like, ‘You’re not doing that right.’ Ya know, you’re trying to do dialogue, which you have no idea what you’re talking about, and you’re trying to do it with a serious face.”
Despite the medical drama entering Season 21, the series continues to emphasize the authenticity of their surgery sequences, as per Speedman.
Scott Speedman made his Grey’s Anatomy debut in Season 14 in a guest role and eventually became a main character for Seasons 18 and 19. Since then, Speedman’s Nick Marsh has acquired a recurring role in the show and serves as an on-and-off love interest for Ellen Pompeo’s Dr. Meredith Grey.
Grey’s Anatomy Season 21 premiered on September 26 and releases a new episode every Thursday.
Simone’s in the intern hot seat this week. When she first arrived at Grey Sloan, we saw how much she was affected by being at the very hospital where her mother died giving birth to her, and while it’s come up a little bit since, this week she really has to confront those feelings. While she’s doing that, Grey’s Anatomy also does a nice job of reminding us how insanely disproportionate the maternal mortality rate is for Black women in this country; not only must Black pregnant women and their families live with that fear on a daily basis, the fear exists in the minds of Black doctors treating them as well. Grey’s fights some of its traditional impulses to simply preach statistics at us and instead gives us a patient story line that really shows us that pervasive fear. That moment with husband Miles when he learns what has happened to his wife Lauren? Have! Not! Recovered!
Simone’s mother is at the top of her thoughts when we find her — she, her father, and her older sister have just moved Simone’s gran into an assisted-living facility. It’s a morning full of Gran talking to Simone as if she were her daughter, looking at old pictures of her mother, and just generally being reminded of what she lost. A very cool way to start your day. When she is assigned to a patient named Miles who fractured his wrist, she doesn’t clock the similarities between her mother and Miles’s very pregnant wife, Lauren, a young Black woman with a 4-year-old daughter and her second on the way. She does, however, notice Lauren is in some pain — she complains of Braxton Hicks and also some indigestion — and Simone decides to have Lauren get checked out in O.B. while Miles gets X-rays.
When Jo gets a look at Lauren, she realizes she is dilated enough that she needs to stay at the hospital — this baby is coming. Lauren’s blood pressure is slightly elevated, and Jo orders some blood and urine labs, but it seems like business as usual — until it is very much not. Lauren’s nose starts bleeding and then she starts seizing. It becomes clear that Lauren had undiagnosed preeclampsia. They rush her into an OR where Carina (hey, it’s nice to have her back on this side!) performs a c-section. The baby is fine, but Lauren is hemorrhaging. Like, guys, it is so, so much blood. Carina and Jo call Bailey in to assist, but things look dire. They need to perform a hysterectomy but even that doesn’t stop all the blood loss.
While all of this is going on, Simone’s been helping Miles get set up with a cast and talking about how exciting it is that their baby will be here soon. She has no idea what is actually going on. When she walks into the OR, she is horrified. Bailey calls her over to assist, procedure logs be damned, and it’s not long before Simone looks down at Lauren’s face and sees her mom on the operating table. Simone is frozen. She slowly backs away, unable to say or do anything else. Not the most helpful way to be when a woman is just dumping blood onto the floor, but we’ll cut her some slack.
The good news is Lauren survives the horror show. Less bright of a silver lining: Jo finally gets those labs back and Lauren very much tested positive for HELLP syndrome (considered a variant of severe preeclampsia). If Jo had put a rush on those labs or paid closer attention to Lauren’s symptoms, there was a chance she could’ve caught this before Lauren had to be subjected to what happened to her. Jo feels like part of the problem — she wasn’t asking the right questions or paying attention to her patient. She decides then and there that splitting her time between O.B. and general surgery is too much. From now on she’s focusing on O.B.
It’ll certainly be a teaching moment for her. And if the bloodbath and chaos of what befell Lauren isn’t enough to do it, surely Miles’s reaction when Jo and Simone tell him about his wife will really burn it on her brain. Miles is beside himself. They did everything they could to avoid being just another statistic. They read all the books, stayed up-to-date on doctor’s appointments, made all the plans, and still, everyone missed what was happening to his wife. It’s awful … and Simone reacts like any human being who sees her father in a distraught man’s face, and goes to the bar to pound back a wild amount of shots.
Bailey finds Simone at Joe’s and takes her home, where Simone finally opens up about why she’s been reacting this way. She can’t believe she didn’t catch it, she should’ve known. All she can think about is how doctors missed a similar thing with her mother and it cost her her life; now she is the doctor. The two women have a heart-to-heart about how important it is that women who look like them are in the medical field to make sure women like Lauren don’t slip through the cracks. None of it is fair, they are trying their best, and all they can do is keep fighting the good fight. I’m very here for this budding mentor/mentee relationship and also for Simone as a character on this show. She remains such a welcome addition.
Speaking of! Can we shift gears into this very sweet little story line about Lucas and Mika’s friendship? Twenty seasons in and I love that Grey’s Anatomy continues to pay the same amount of attention to friendships as romantic relationships. I’m a sucker for cute friend pairs, sue me!!
The two former roommates are still on the outs but find themselves working on Dorian the engineer-turned-fisherman patient, who, mercifully, can finally move out of the ICU. There’s a whole situation with Dorian’s friends coming to visit after 51 days and constantly talking about what Dorian has been missing that really sets Lucas off. He is a sad boy through and through, we know this, so he can’t help but project his own feelings of being left out by the other interns — I mean, they all sit at a table in the cafeteria right next to him and ignore him, that is insane — onto his patient, even though it actually isn’t the case with Dorian at all.
It is certainly a bummer when Dorian ends up with a fistula and gets sent back to ICU — the guy can’t catch a break — but the way Lucas gets so unhinged after learning the news is wild. He screams at Dorian’s friends in the hallway, only stopping when Mika is like, what the actual hell, dude? The two continue their argument back in the locker room and it quickly turns from Lucas’s lack of bedside manner to who let Kwan move into his room. Mika thinks this is still somehow related to Simone, but it turns out it isn’t at all — this is about Lucas missing his friend Mika.
Lucas seems to be polarizing at the moment, but I am a Lucas defender through and through, so get over it. When he starts giggling because he missed bickering with Mika so much? When he was so happy to hear her call him “Skywalker” again? It’s all very endearing. Look at these buddies making up! More of them, please.
• Grey’s takes time to address how weird it must be for Webber and Winston to work together now that Maggie is gone. It’s not like Winston and Maggie were together all that long and now he’s working with her dad on a daily basis. Also, I can’t believe this nurse is the first person to hit on the guy — hot, very good at his job, kind of sad? I just described the perfect man.
• I was surprised to hear Webber say Winston and Maggie were “talking about divorce.” Aren’t they divorced officially? Can we put this to bed? We need to get Winston more ingrained in Grey Sloan drama, stat, or I fear he’d be too easy to cut out if Grey’s is looking to shave down its enormous cast.
• Jules and Kwan make a bet over who can finish their procedure log first, but really it’s an excuse for them to go on a date without someone having to ask. And also to have sex in a car. I don’t know guys, you’re adults, go have sex in a car if you want! (They really want to — did you see their horny eyes before Mika interrupted them? Even I was blushing!)
• I don’t think I could care any less about Owen’s ennui when it comes to work and, apparently, his sex life — call me heartless if you must. Although it was nice to see Grey’s remind us that this man did watch his wife flatline and that could really screw a person up, but lumping that in with his lack of enthusiasm for, well, everything at the moment muddles the point.
As we exclusively announced in December, the first 19 seasons of ABC’s venerable medical drama Grey’s Anatomy would be offered on a Disney streaming platform for the first time, and now all 420 episodes are available on Hulu ahead of the Season 20 premiere on ABC.
“Grey’s Anatomy is one of our top performing next-day titles, and we are very excited to now be the only streaming destination to offer every Grey’s episode ever, both past and current,” said Hulu General Manager Lauren Tempest. “In addition to bringing lifelong fans back to Grey Sloan, we hope that new audiences will discover and fall in love with the characters and stories that have captivated us for so many years.”
To celebrate the launch, Hulu has released a new featurette with the most iconic moments from the past 19 seasons and teasing what’s ahead. You can watch it above.
As we reported, under the pact, Hulu and Netflix, the longtime SVOD home of Grey’s will share the co-exclusive domestic streaming rights to all prior 19 seasons of the drama series. All episodes will be available on both the bundled Disney app and the standalone Hulu service.
Securing Grey’s Anatomy for the foreseeable future is part of a short-term domestic content agreement between Disney Entertainment and Netflix in which Disney is licensing 14 popular library TV series to Netflix on a non-exclusive basis for 18 months. The list includes Lost, This Is Us, Prison Break, Archer, How I Met Your Mother, White Collar, Home Improvement, The Resident, ESPN 30 for 30, My Wife and Kids, Reba, The Bernie Mac Show and the recent Wonder Years reboot.
Season 20 of Grey’s Anatomy premieres Thursday, March 14 on ABC and begins streaming Friday, March 15, exclusively on Hulu.
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The TV Academy also teased tributes to All In The Family, Cheers, I Love Lucy.
Additionally, Charlie Puth and will perform with duo The War and Treaty for this year’s “In Memoriam.” Blink-182’s Travis Barker is set to open the show with a performance alongside host Anthony Anderson.
Wondering where to watch Grey’s Anatomy Season 15 online? We have all the streaming details right here. The 15th season of the American medical drama television series continues the stories of the staff members at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Here’s how you can watch and stream Grey’s Anatomy Season 15 via streaming services such as Netflix.
Is Grey’s Anatomy Season 15 available to watch via streaming?
Yes, Grey’s Anatomy Season 15 is available to watch via streaming on Netflix.
With its 15th season, Grey’s Anatomy became the longest-running American primetime medical drama series after the finale of ER on April 2, 2009. This season also features the shortest ensemble main cast seen since the 9th installment of the ABC series.
Season 14’s main cast includes Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., Justin Chambers, Jesse Williams, Caterina Scorsone, and Amelia Shepherd.
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The synopsis for Grey’s Anatomy is as follows:
“Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.“
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Katherine Heigl is opening up about being comfortable as the “villain” following comments in multiple interviews in the early 2000s that led to her being labeled “difficult.”
“I’m always the bad guy. People like me to be the bad guy,” she said during a sit-down with her former “Grey’s Anatomy” co-star, Ellen Pompeo, for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series.
Heigl gained notoriety for famously speaking out against her role in “Knocked Up,” and for pulling her name from consideration from the Emmys and rallying against tough working conditions during her time on “Grey’s.”
“I got on my soapbox and I had some things to say, and I felt really passionate about this stuff. I felt really strongly,” Heigl told Pompeo. “I felt so strongly that I also got a megaphone out on my soapbox. There was no part of me that imagined a bad reaction. I felt really justified in how I felt about it and where I was coming from.”
Pompeo and Heigl pictured in a scene from “Grey’s,” in a photo released on Aug. 8, 2008.
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Heigl, who said she has spent most of her years in “people-pleasing mode,” said she found it “really disconcerting when you feel like you have really displeased everybody.”
“It was not my intention to do so, but I had some things to say, and I didn’t think I was going to get such a strong reaction,” she added. “I was in my late 20s.”
Heigl said her success on the hit ABC show gave her a “false sense of confidence” to speak out.
“So then I started getting real mouthy, because I did have a lot to say, and there were certain boundaries and things that I was not OK with being crossed,” she explained. “I didn’t know how to fight that.”
After questioning the reactions and labels she was faced with after speaking out about certain projects and roles, Heigl realized that only a few people’s opinions truly mattered to her, and that she needed to tune out the other noise.
“That’s when I got comfortable with my role as the villain and really enjoyed it.” Heigl said, jokingly rubbing her hands together in a villain-like way, as Pompeo giggled.
Heigl has experienced something of a 180 in terms of public opinion over the years, as people have reexamined the backlash she faced at the time for speaking the truth.
Just last year, Pompeo spoke out in support of the “ballsy” comments Heigl made about their workplace, and said her co-star “was telling the truth.”
“I remember Heigl said something on a talk show about the insane hours we were working, but she was 100% right — and had she said that today she’d be a complete hero, but she was ahead of her time,” Pompeo said on her “Tell Me” podcast last August.
“Of course, let’s slam a woman and call her ungrateful when the truth is she’s 100% honest, and it’s absolutely correct what she said,” she added.
The doctors are in. Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl reunited for Variety‘s Actors on Actors series, which saw the two former Grey’s Anatomy co-stars in conversation about playing doctors Meredith Grey and Izzy Stevens on TV’s longest running medical drama:
The pair took a long trip down memory lane in the nearly hour-long video as Heigl reminisced about throwing a baby shower for Pompeo’s daughter, Stella Luna, and making them bolognese. Pompeo, who recently (sort of) left Grey’s Anatomy after 19 seasons, is watching Grey’s Anatomy with Stella for the first time. “At first I was like, “Oh, this is so amazing, and we’re going to watch it together,” Pompeo told Heigl. “Then it was episode after episode after episode, and I was like, “I don’t have the stamina for this!” I filmed all these episodes; I can’t now go back and watch it again. What’s interesting is I hadn’t watched a lot of Grey’s, because we were always working.”
Unlike Pompeo, Heigl watched every episode when it aired because she was “anxious to see how it all turned out.” The duo then reminisced about shooting the first season, which premiered as a midseason replacement in 2005 airing after Desperate Housewives, and became an overnight sensation. “On Monday morning, we had to film the last day of that first season. We came into work the next day, and everybody was freaking out,” said Pompeo. “The ratings were huge. I don’t even know if people can count that high anymore. Then we went on hiatus, and the show was airing. I’m so grateful there was no social media then. We would’ve lost our minds, even more than we already lost our minds.”
Despite winning an Emmy in 2007 for playing Dr. Izzy Stephens, Heigl left Grey’s after its sixth season after reported tension with executive producer and creator Shonda Rhimes. During the conversation, Heigl spoke positively of Rhimes. “Kudos to Shonda for changing the entire dialogue of network television at a time that really didn’t have women in those kinds of roles in the story, didn’t have as much diversity,” said Heigl. “I was young. I wasn’t paying that much attention. It felt like a job, a great job. I didn’t realize it was as impactful as it was.”
Heigl went on to discuss the headspace she was in around the time she decided to leave the series in 2010. “I was up here in my head, in my gut, in my mind, in my life. I was just vibrating at way too high of a level of anxiety,” said Heigl. “For me, it’s all a bit of a blur, and it took me years to learn how to deal with that, to master it. I can’t even say that I’ve mastered it, but to even know to work on it, that anxiety and fear — and stress is stress. And if you leave stress too long, unmanaged and unaddressed, it can be debilitating.”
“Grey’s Anatomy” star Caterina Scorsone has recounted how she and her three children escaped a blaze that destroyed their house and left their four pets dead.
“A couple of months ago my house burned down,” the actor wrote in an Instagram post Monday. “While getting my kids ready for bed and finishing bath time, smoke began to seep up through the grout around the tub. When I looked down the hallway a river of thick black smoke had already formed and was filling the house.”
Scorsone said she “had about two minutes” to get her daughters ― Lucky, 3, Paloma, 6, and Eliza, 10 ― out of the house, “and we escaped with less than shoes on our feet.”
“Heartbreakingly, we lost all four of our pets. We are still sitting with that loss, but we are lucky we got to love them at all,” she wrote.
She shared a carousel of photos of the rubble left behind, memories in the home and their pets.
Scorsone, who shares her daughters with ex-husband Rob Giles, grew up in Toronto, Canada, but later moved to Southern California. She portrays Dr. Amelia Shepherd on the hit medical drama, which is filmed mostly in Los Angeles.
She said she posted her message to celebrate the community that helped her in the aftermath.
“This is a love letter to the incredible people that showed up and the incredible ways that they did,” she wrote. “Thank you to the firefighters and the investigators (thank you Trey!) Thank you to my neighbor who answered our frantic knocks at her door.”
She also thanked parents at her kids’ school who sent toys and books, her friends at “Grey’s Anatomy” for sending clothes and supplies, her sisters who flew in to help and her team.
“What we learned is that the only thing that matters are the people (and beings) that you love. The only thing that matters is community. We would not be here without it and we are so grateful. Thank you,” she wrote.
Scorsone’s Amelia Shepherd, the younger sister of Patrick Dempsey’s Derek Shepherd, is head of neurosurgery at Grey Sloan Memorial in “Grey’s Anatomy.” She joined the series in 2010 during the show’s seventh season.
Despite shooting to stardom after years on Grey’s Anatomy,Jesse Williams feels his career is just getting started.
Well known for his role as Dr. Jackson Avery on the long-running ABC drama, Williams was eager to try something new and decided to take his chance on the revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2002 baseball play, Take Me Out. Upon signing on to his very first play, little did Williams know that the revival would be a smash hit, leading to multiple Tony nominations and a highly demanded second run.
Halfway through the second turn of the Broadway show, Williams reflected on the freeing nature of his onstage experience and how, prior to starring on Broadway, his tenure on the hit TV show was actually something of a roadblock from other opportunities.
“Honestly, I feel like a kid just starting his career, because I am just starting my career,” Williams told Vanity Fair. “As soon as I started acting, essentially, I was immediately on Grey’s Anatomy, and I did that for 11 years straight, 10 months a year. Unavailable for anything else. So it’s all I did and knew.”
The actor went on to compare working on the TV drama to studying at “an amazing school” but being unable to leave the school and go outside to join the rest of the students on the playground. “I was in school…an amazing school, looking out the window, watching everybody else play and try things and fall and hurt themselves and try again and win—and I didn’t really do that. I was in an amazing castle, but I still couldn’t really leave. And so now, to leave, I feel like a kid.”
Unlike child actors, or those who were born into the business, former schoolteacher Williams scored his big break on what is now the longest-running medical prime-time drama when he was approaching 30. And while grateful for his time on Grey’s Anatomy, the Tony-nominated actor credits his Take Me Out experience with helping him to further perfect his craft in a new medium and open up a world of new acting opportunities.
(left to right): Jesse Tyler Ferguson(Mason Marzac) and Jesse Williams(Darren Lemming) in Take Me Out.By Jeremy Daniel/ Courtesy of the TAKE ME OUT Production.
