Meredith Grey
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| Dr. Meredith Grey | |
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| Grey's Anatomy character | |
 Ellen Pompeo as Dr. Meredith Grey |
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| First appearance | "A Hard Day's Night" |
| Created by | Shonda Rhimes |
| Portrayed by | Ellen Pompeo |
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| Occupation | Surgical Resident at Seattle Grace Hospital |
| Title | M.D. |
| Family | Dr. Derek Shepherd (partner) Thatcher Grey (father) Dr. Ellis Grey (mother; deceased) Susan Grey (step-mother; deceased) Dr. Lexie Grey (half-sister) Molly Grey Thompson (half-sister) Laura Grey Thompson (half-niece) Eric Thompson (brother-in-law) |
Meredith Grey is a fictional character and the series protagonist on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actress Ellen Pompeo, and was created by Shonda Rhimes, who says that Meredith is the character who best reflects her own personality.[citation needed] Ellen Pompeo was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Drama at the 64th Golden Globe Awards.
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[edit] Storylines
[edit] Season One
Meredith secures a position in the surgical residency program at Seattle Grace. Her mother Ellis has been moved into a nursing home, and Meredith becomes responsible for her affairs. The night before her internship starts, she meets Derek Shepherd in a bar and they have a one-night stand. However, Meredith discovers the next day that he is an attending neurosurgeon at Seattle Grace, and resists his advances. Meredith befriends fellow interns Cristina Yang, George O'Malley, Izzie Stevens, and Alex Karev. She and Derek begin to date, however their relationship is tested by the arrival of Derek’s estranged wife, Addison Montgomery-Shepherd. In the beginning of the second episode in the first season Meredith reveals that she is an opposite of a bush-supporter.
[edit] Season Two
Derek struggles to choose between Meredith and his estranged wife, but ultimately leaves Meredith to return to his Addison. Meredith is devastated and is led to search out her father, though their reunion fails to give Meredith any closure regarding her childhood. Meredith has a series of one-night stands with various men, trying to replace Derek. She gets drunk and has sex with George, only to cry in the middle of the encounter and drive a wedge in their friendship. Meredith and Derek begin a platonic friendship, and Meredith begins a relationship with her dog's veterinarian, Finn Dandridge. Derek's jealousy manifests as anger, and after a fight in which Derek criticizes Meredith’s promiscuity their friendship appears to be over.
Meredith learns she has a half-sister, when Molly Grey is admitted to the hospital. She discovers her father remarried after his divorce to Ellis and had two more daughters. Unaware of Meredith's true identity, Molly reveals that Thatcher had been a devoted and loving father, and was incredibly proud of Molly and her sister Lexie, a medical student at Harvard. In the last episode of season two, Derek and Meredith have sex after a heated argument, and realises he must leave his wife.
[edit] Season Three
Once Derek divorces Addison, Meredith is forced to choose between Derek and Finn. She decides to date both of them, but after Derek says that he loves her enough to leave her (and suggests that Finn is the better man), she chooses him and ends her relationship with Finn. Meredith's half-sister Molly is readmitted to the hospital for a c-section. With Thatcher at the hospital, Meredith is forced to face her father. While tension remains between the two, their relationship softens a little when Meredith realizes she has inherited her problem with snoring from him.
Ellis Grey experiences a completely lucid day, and expresses great disappointment at how "ordinary" Meredith turned out to be. Ellis declines to undergo heart surgery to correct her arrhythmias, but her wishes are in conflict with Meredith's power of attorney. Before Meredith can attempt reconciliation, her mother’s lucidity fades once more.
Following a disastrous accident involving a ferryboat, Meredith is knocked into the water at the scene by a patient, and rescued by Derek. Despite continuous CPR, she is unresponsive upon arriving at the hospital. She experiences a near-death experience, in which she encounters former patients, her dog Doc, and her mother, who died while doctors were working on Meredith. Thatcher and Susan reach out to Meredith after Ellis' death and cremation. However, shortly after Ellis' death, Meredith loses her stepmother as well when Susan dies following a rare complication of a usually routine procedure. In his grief, Thatcher slaps Meredith and forbids her to attend the funeral, blaming Susan's death on her trust in Meredith.
Meredith goes on to freeze up during a critical exam that will determine her future in the internship program. The other interns plead her case to Chief Webber, who arranges for Meredith to make up the test privately. The events of her intern year come to a head as Meredith helps Cristina prepare for her wedding. Derek confronts her over her level of commitment to their relationship, and after Burke and Cristina's wedding falls apart, she leaves to help a distraught Cristina, leaving her relationship and future with Derek uncertain.
[edit] Season Four
After accompanying Cristina on her would-be honeymoon, Meredith returns to Seattle Grace and learns that her half-sister, Lexie, is one of the new interns. She initially refuses Lexie’s attempts to get to know her, telling her that she is not interested because their father chose Lexie over her. However, Meredith slowly softens towards her, going through the case notes from Susan’s death with her, and allowing her to stay at her home overnight to recoup, after Lexie lost a patient she had become close to.
Derek begins to push Meredith to make a greater commitment to their relationship than she feels able to, and the pair break up once more. Derek begins dating his scrub nurse, Rose, while Meredith begins seeing a therapist, Dr Wyatt. She initiates a neurosurgical clinical trial on patients with malignant gliomas, enlisting Derek as a consulting neurosurgeon. In the final episode of the season, "Freedom", Meredith admits to her therapist that her mother attempted suicide in front of Meredith as a child, and is finally able to realize that Ellis did not truly want to die, but committed the act as a cry for help. When the final clinical trial patient survives, Meredith goes to Derek's land and outlines their would-be house in candles. Derek finds her there and kisses her passionately, but leaves in order to end his relationship with Rose. He tells Meredith to wait for him.
[edit] Season Five
Meredith and Derek begin to talk about the possibility of moving in together. Derek proposes marriage but they both feel that it is a little early for them. After Derek breaks up with Rose for Meredith, Rose gets angry because Derek told her all the time that he was over Meredith. She even goes so far as to jokingly tell him that she was pregnant with his child and she recently stabbed him with a scalpel. She realizes that because of Derek she is no longer the nurse that every doctor wants in their OR anymore and leaves for a new position. Which leaves Meredith and Derek to go about their relationship. Meredith asks Cristina if she really believed that Derek and her relationship is really doomed and Cristina replies, saying "I'm your person, I'm on your side."
By the end of the episode Meredith is seen helping Derek to pack his things, implying that they are actually moving together in her house and he is leaving his trailer.
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