Dominic Rains is hanging up his white coat after 5 seasons on Chicago Med.
Rains, 42, is not going to be returning to the medical drama as a sequence common, Deadline reported on Friday, June 28. The actor’s exit comes after the destiny of his character, ER surgeon Dr. Crockett Marcel, was left up within the air after the season 9 finale.
Within the ultimate episode of the present’s ninth season, Crockett was advised by Gaffney Chicago Medical Heart Director Sharon Goodwin (S. Epatha Merkerson) to “take on a regular basis” he wanted after the deaths of two sufferers: a younger boy whose liver transplant surgical procedure was canceled by Crockett final minute and the boy’s father, who died by suicide after his son died. The deaths reminded the ER surgeon of shedding his child daughter to leukemia.
It’s unclear if he’ll reprise his position for a visitor spot on the present’s forthcoming tenth season, which can see showrunners Diane Frolov and Andy Schneider step down after 9 seasons. Allen MacDonald will step of their place.
Rains joined the solid of the long-running NBC drama initially of season 5 in 2019 as a recurring character earlier than changing into a sequence common.
Whereas talking completely to Us Weekly in October 2020, sequence star Torrey DeVitto – whose character Dr. Natalie Manning later carried on a secret relationship with Crockett – opened up about Rains’ character trusting her with the key of shedding his daughter whereas teasing their season 6 romance.
“I do assume that him revealing to her his secret and stuff makes her really feel nearer to him,” the One Tree Hill alum, 40, mentioned on the time. “I believe this man, who she thinks is fairly cocky, has all of it underneath management. Seeing that susceptible aspect to him, I do assume form of lights one thing within her. And what that’s, I haven’t but found out — but it surely’s one thing.”
Chicago Med follows the day-to-day pandemonium of the Windy Metropolis’s state-of-the-art trauma heart and the lives of the medical doctors, nurses and different medical professionals as they navigate their demanding and emotionally exhausting jobs, relationships and extra.
The sequence premiered on NBC in 2015 and likewise stars Marlyne Barrett, Oliver Platt, Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee, Lorena Diaz and Yaya DaCosta. Rains appeared in a complete of 93 episodes throughout his run on the present.