Charlotte King

Charlotte King
Private Practice character
KaDee Strickland as Dr. Charlotte King
First appearance	"In Which We Meet Addison, a Nice Girl From Somewhere Else" 1x01
Last appearance	"In Which We Say Goodbye" 6x13
Created by	Shonda Rhimes
Portrayed by	KaDee Strickland
Information
Aliases	Charlie Char Cruella (by Violet)
Occupation	Attending at St. Ambrose Hospital Physician at Seaside Health & Wellness Physician at Pacific Wellcare Center (former) Physician at Oceanside Wellness Group (former)
Title	Chief of Staff (St. Ambrose Hospital) Former Director (Pacific Wellcare Center) M.D.
Family	"Big Daddy" (father, deceased) Augusta King (mother) Duke King (brother) Landry King (brother)
Spouse(s)	Billy Douglas (divorced) Cooper Freedman
Significant other(s)	Archer Montgomery Sheldon Wallace
Children	Mason Warner (step-son via Cooper) Georgia King-Freedman Caroline King-Freedman Rachel King-Freedman (triplet daughters with Cooper)

Dr. Charlotte King is a fictional character from the ABC medical drama Private Practice, portrayed by KaDee Strickland. Charlotte is the Chief of Staff at the fictional St. Ambrose Hospital in Santa Monica. She has an "adversarial" role in the show, and is responsible for opening the Pacific Wellcare Center, a medical practice in direct competition with the series' main practice, the Oceanside Wellness Group. Charlotte is also the wife of pediatrician Cooper Freedman (Paul Adelstein).

Charlotte (Char) is from Monroeville, Alabama. She has two brothers, Duke (Tyler Jacob Moore) and Landry (Caleb Moody), and was raised by her parents "Big Daddy" and Augusta King, who she refers to as "a son of a bitch" and "a drug addict" respectively. She has trouble connecting with others because signs of affection were discouraged in her family. Charlotte attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and went on to become the youngest physician to hold the position of Chief of Staff at St. Ambrose Hospital in Santa Monica. She uses internet dating websites using the handle "CanYouHandleMe441", and is embarrassed to discover a man she has been interacting with online is Cooper Freedman, the Oceanside Wellness Centre's pediatrician. She agrees to go for a drink with him, however, and the two end up sleeping together.

Charlotte and Cooper enter into a relationship, but break up when he discovers that she is opening a new practice to rival his own, on the fourth floor of the same building. They come close to reconciling when Charlotte believes she may be pregnant, but she is disappointed when her pregnancy test comes back negative and Cooper subsequently rejects her again. They re-unite when Charlotte's father dies from lung cancer, and Cooper helps her to turn off his life support machine. Charlotte is jealous of Cooper's relationship with his best friend Violet Turner (Amy Brenneman), particularly when he opts to move in with her to support her through her pregnancy. In retaliation, Charlotte sleeps with Archer Montgomery (Grant Show); however, Cooper forgives her as he realizes she is afraid of being in a committed relationship and is trying to push him away. Charlotte is later fired from her position as director of Pacific Wellcare as the practice owner, William White (James Morrison), believes her to be heartless. However, she continues private practice work as she is employed to replace Naomi at Oceanside Wellness, electing to practice sexology as her specialty.