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Dr. Arizona Robbins, performed by actress Jessica Capshaw, is ready to scrub again into Grey’s Anatomy’s Grey Sloan Memorial throughout season 20.
ABC introduced on Saturday, February 10, that Capshaw, 47, would reprise her Grey’s function forward of its Television Critics Association 2024 Winter presentation. According to The Wrap, Capshaw will return in a guest-starring capability.
While additional particulars about Arizona’s season 20 arc have been shared, Capshaw seemingly hinted about her pleasure to return to the medical drama.
“So much, coming soon,” she wrote by way of Instagram Story on Saturday, alongside a “Happy New Year” window show celebrating 2024 as the yr of the dragon.
Capshaw starred on Grey’s Anatomy from season 5 to season 14, enjoying pediatric-turned-fetal surgeon Arizona Robbins. Arizona was written off the present in 2018 after she determined to go away Seattle and transfer to New York together with her and ex-wife Callie Torres’ daughter, Sofia Robbin Sloan Torres (Eva Ariel Binder). Callie (Sara Ramirez) had beforehand relocated to the Big Apple in season 12, when Ramirez, 48, left the present.
Capshaw’s preliminary Grey’s departure was a results of artistic adjustments.
“Sarah [Drew] and Jessica’s story lines had just run their course, and the decision was made to not renew their contracts,” a supply solely Us Weekly in March 2018, referring to Drew, 43, whose April Kepner was written off the present on the similar time as Arizona.
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Drew beforehand returned to Grey’s Anatomy within the season 18 finale, serving to ship off TV ex-husband Jesse Williams (Jackson Avery) earlier than his personal present exit.
Throughout its prolonged run, Grey’s Anatomy has mentioned goodbye — after which good day once more — to numerous standard characters. As the primary sequence common to exit from the ABC medical drama, followers had been shocked when Isaiah Washington (Preston Burke) returned to Grey’s Anatomy in 2014 — seven years after he was fired for utilizing a […]
“I had an absolute ball getting to work with Jesse again. We have such a great working relationship and such a wonderful friendship, and it’s so easy. It’s so easy to act with him,” Drew informed Us in April 2021 of their TV reunion. “We just had so many years to pull from. We know how one another works. We know how to support one another in a scene. We know how to talk through something. We know how to be each other’s cheerleaders.”
Grey’s Anatomy season 20 will even see Ellen Pompeo (Meredith Grey) return regardless of beforehand stepping again due to different commitments. (Pompeo, 54, has continued to present voiceovers for the episodes and continues to be an government producer on each Grey’s Anatomy and its Station 19 spinoff.)
Alex Landi, who beforehand recurred as orthopedic surgical fellow Nico Kim, will even make a guest-starring return on season 20, ABC introduced on Saturday. Natalie Morales and Freddy Miyares, in the meantime, will make their Grey’s debuts in undisclosed roles.
Grey’s Anatomy season 20 returns to ABC on Thursday, March 14.
