Laurie Holden Joins Cast of NBC's CHICAGO MED Pilot

According to Deadline, former WALKING DEAD star Laurie Holden has joined the cast of NBC's upcoming CHICAGO FIRE spin-off CHICAGO MED.

Holden will take on the role of "Dr. Hannah Tramble, a fearless, brilliant ER surgeon whose tough as nails childhood has given her a dark edge."

Holden joins Yaya DaCosta, who starred in Lifetime's Whitney Houston biopic, and stage veteran S. Epatha Merkerson.

CHICAGO MED is a planted pilot, which will air as part of CHICAGO FIRE's current season (in the 19th episode). CHICAGO FIRE creators/executive producers Derek Haas and Michael Brandt are also writing CHICAGO MED, with executive producers Matt Olmstead and Wolf.

Merkerson starred as 'Lt. Anita Van Buren' in Law & Order for nearly a decade. Since then, she has appeared in the movie Lincoln and the TV series The Good Wife, DECEPTION and more. The actress will next be seen on the big screen in Sexual Healing and The Challenger.

Two-time Tony nominee Merkerson last appeared on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba, and before that in The Piano Lesson. She most recently starred off-Broadway in While I Yet Live and has also appeared onstage in Birdie Blue, fing A, Three Ways Home, Balm in Gilead and The Harvesting.

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