List of Chicago Med characters
| Will Halstead | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CPD: "Say Her Real Name" (episode 2.17) CF: "I Am the Apocolypse" (episode 3.19) CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Nick Gehlfuss |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Patrick "Pat" Halstead (father) Unnamed mother (deceased) Jay Halstead (brother) |
| Significant other(s) | Nina Shore |
| Natalie Manning | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Torrey DeVitto |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Unnamed father Unnamed mother |
| Spouse(s) | Jeff Manning (deceased) |
| Children | Owen Manning (son) |
| April Sexton | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CF: "Forgive You Anything" (episode 3.17) CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Yaya DaCosta |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Noah Sexton (brother) |
| Significant other(s) | Tate Jenkins (ex-fiancé) |
| Sarah Reese | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Rachel DiPillo |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Significant other(s) | Joey Thomas |
| Connor Rhodes | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Colin Donnell |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Family | Cornelius Rhodes (father) Elisabeth Rhodes (mother) (deceased) Claire Rhodes (sister) |
| Significant other(s) | Sam Zanetti (ex-girlfriend) Robin Charles |
| Ethan Choi | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Brian Tee |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Significant other(s) | Dr. Vicky Glass |
| Sharon Goodwin | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CF: "I Am the Apocolypse" (episode 3.19) CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | S. Epatha Merkerson |
| Information | |
| Full name | Sharon McGee |
| Gender | Female |
| Spouse(s) | Bert Goodwin(ex-husband) |
| Daniel Charles | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CF: "I Am the Apocolypse" (episode 3.19) CPD: "Actual Physical Violence" (episode 3.03) CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Oliver Platt |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Spouse(s) | 3 ex-wives |
| Children | Robin Charles (daughter) Anna Charles (daughter) |
| Maggie Lockwood | |
|---|---|
| First appearance |
CM: "Derailed" (episode 1.01) |
| Created by | Matt Olmstead |
| Portrayed by | Marlyne Barrett |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Family | Denise Lockwood (sister) |
This is a list of fictional characters in the television series Chicago Med. The article deals with the series' main, recurring, and minor characters.
Dr. Will Halstead is an attending in the Emergency Department. He was first introduced to the Chicago franchise in the Chicago P.D. episode "Say Her Real Name" as Detective Jay Halstead's estranged brother who drops by to visit in a two-episode arc. The character moved to Med after being introduced in the show's backdoor pilot on Chicago Fire and Gehlfuss was made a regular cast member when the characters at Chicago Medical Center who appeared in both Fire and P.D. were given their own spin-off.
Dr. Halstead was initially written as a plastic surgeon who left his private practice (or was implied in P.D. to have been "kicked out") in New York City and returned home to Chicago. After the backdoor pilot of Chicago Med, he decided to switch specialties to emergency medicine. When Med first premiered, he was Chief Resident. As of season 2 he has been an attending. He is characterized as a competent and compassionate doctor who tries to do what he thinks is best for his patient but his single-minded stubbornness has sometimes clouded his judgment. Charge Nurse Maggie Lockwood once described him as "a slightly anal, overly stubborn, rule breaking, control freak".
In season 1 Dr. Halstead clashes a number of times with Dr. Connor Rhodes, a trauma surgery fellow, and Sharon Goodwin, the chief administrator, over hospital practices and policies. He particularly disliked Dr. Rhodes as he felt the latter was an entitled "rich kid" from the more affluent northern suburbs. They eventually call an unspoken truce by the end of the season as they developed a mutual professional respect for one another. During the episode "Choices" he finds himself in hot water after ignoring a patient's DNR and faces a lawsuit as a result. He also earns the ire of attending Dr. Kendra Perrington in the episode "Inheritance" for overriding her at the request of the patient's brother, who was his former schoolmate, only to find out that she was on the hiring committee. This put his job prospects in jeopardy as he was in the last year of his residency. In the season 1 finale he receives a letter of offer for an attending position in the ED, much to his relief. For much of early season 2, he stresses out over his finances as he still had to pay off his student loans and sizeable malpractice insurance (due to his malpractice suit from the episode "Clarity"). He initially sees final year medical student Jeff Clarke as a rival for Natalie's affections but develops a friendship with Clarke and often encourages him.
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