*CBS’ “Code Black” has padded its cast with three new major recurring players — Nafessa Williams (“Twin Peaks”), Noah Gray-Cabey (“Heroes: Reborn”) and Emily Tyra (“Flesh and Bone”) — with an eye toward becoming regulars, reports Deadline.com.
All three will play new residents at the ER of Angels Memorial Hospital.
Williams will play Charlotte Piel, a former child star of an iconic movie franchise who left her acting career to become a doctor instead, now returning to Los Angeles, her adoptive home, to be a resident at Angels Memorial.
Gray-Cabey will play Elliot Han, a sweet and affable new doctor at Angels, who excelled in school but is completely overwhelmed by the catastrophes that regularly burst through the doors of the busiest ER in the country.
Tyra will play Dr. Noa Kean: A street-smart, surfer who sailed to the top of her class at a California university, despite the tough neighborhood she grew up in. Noa is confident and defiant, never pretends to be something she isn’t, and has zero patience for the foolish or the over privileged.
The castings are part of the plan for Season 2 mapped out by series creator/exec producer Michael Seitzman designed to make the series resemble real life where residents and physicians come to an ER for a stint and leave.
Also as part of the plan, two Season 1 series regulars, Bonnie Somerville and Raza Jaffrey, departed while two recurring players, Jillian Murray and Boris Kodjoe, were promoted to regular. Additionally, a male co-lead for star Marcia Gay Harden is being cast.
“We conducted a wide search for actors to play our newest young residents and these three burst to the top,” Seitzman said. “All three are tremendous, wildly compelling actors.”
Season 2 of “Code Black” premieres September 28.
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