Melina Kanakaredes’ new TV role works out great, since she probably still has leftover scrubs hanging in her closet.
The CSI: NY and Providence alum has joined the cast of Fox’s upcoming medical drama The Resident as a series regular, according to our sister site Deadline. Kanakaredes will play Dr. Lane Hunter, a top oncologist who’s harboring dark secrets that set off a thriller arc in the show’s first season.
The Resident, set to debut at midseason, stars Matt Czuchry (The Good Wife) as a senior resident who takes an idealistic young doctor (Halt and Catch Fire‘s Manish Dayal) under his wing and shows him all sides, good and bad, of running a hospital. Bruce Greenwood (The People v. O.J. Simpson) and Emily VanCamp (Revenge) round out the supporting cast.
Kanakaredes is a seasoned TV veteran, having starred as Dr. Sydney Hansen on NBC’s Providence and then moving from doctor to cop as detective Stella Bonasera on CBS’ CSI: NY. She also had a long stint on the CBS soap Guiding Light, along with roles on NYPD Blue, Extant and Hawaii Five-0.