Meredith Grey, M.D., F.A.C.S.

is a fictional and titular character from the medical drama television series
Grey's Anatomy, which airs on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. The
character was created by series producer Shonda Rhimes, and is portrayed by actress Ellen Pompeo. She
made her first appearance in the pilot episode, "A Hard Day's Night", which was broadcast on March 27,
2005. She made her final appearance (as a series regular) in the seventh episode of season 19, "I'll
Follow the Sun" which was broadcast on February 23, 2023. She will continue to do the voiceover at the
beginning and end of each episode. Meredith appears in the spin-off series Station 19 as a recurring
character.

Meredith is the series' protagonist, and was introduced as a surgical intern at the fictional Seattle Grace
Hospital (later Seattle Grace-Mercy West Hospital, and afterwards Grey+Sloan Memorial), eventually
obtaining the position of a surgical resident, and later the position of an attending, and in 2016, attaining
the Chief of General Surgery position. As the daughter of world-renowned surgeon Ellis Grey, Meredith
struggles with the everyday life of being in a competitive profession, maintaining the relationship with
her one-night stand and eventual husband, Derek Shepherd (McDreamy), her motherhood, and her
friendships with her colleagues.

Meredith is the narrator of the show and serves as the focal point for most episodes, although the
audience receives perspectives from other characters as well. Pompeo's connection with Patrick
Dempsey (Derek Shepherd) is acclaimed as a high point of the series. Rhimes has characterized Meredith
as not believing in good or bad, but instead doing what she thinks is right. Grey has been positively
received by television critics, with Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times referring to her as "the
heroine of Grey's Anatomy".

Pompeo's performance has been well received throughout the show and the character has gained
widespread popularity worldwide. Pompeo has been nominated for multiple awards for her portrayal of
the character in the long running ABC medical drama including Satellite Award for Best Actress and
multiple nominations at the People's Choice Awards for Best Actress winning at 39th People's Choice
Awards in 2013 and again in 2015 at 41st People's Choice Awards, Pompeo has also received a Best
Performance by an Actress in a Drama Series nomination at the 64th Golden Globe Awards.

Storylines and characteristics

Meredith Grey is the daughter of world-renowned attending general surgeon, Ellis Grey, and grew up in
her shadow. Ellis was a deeply flawed, emotionally unavailable, verbally abusive, and neglectful mother.
Meredith is described as a "dark and twisty," damaged woman who sees the world in varying shades of
grey. Because of this, she is an emotionally complex person. She is capable of empathizing with others
when they're at their lowest points and is a sensitive observer of the people around her. Meredith is a
graduate of Dartmouth College. While in college, conflicts with her mother lead Meredith to question
her decision to attend medical school. That indecision leads her to make plans to sleep and party her
way through Europe once she graduates. However, after a month abroad, Meredith is called back to care
for her mother, who has developed early-onset Alzheimer's disease. This news drives Meredith's
decision to obtain her M.D.

The night before Meredith's internship begins, she has a one-night stand with Derek Shepherd (Patrick
Dempsey), a man she meets at Joe's Bar. She discovers the next day that he is a recently hired attending;
the new head of neurosurgery at her new workplace, Seattle Grace Hospital. Meredith is assigned to
work under resident Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), and befriends her fellow interns, Cristina Yang
(Sandra Oh), Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl), Alex Karev (Justin Chambers) and George O'Malley (T.R.
Knight). She is particularly close with Cristina Yang, who becomes her best friend and "person". Though
she initially thinks poorly of him, Alex Karev also evolves into Meredith's "person" and the two assume a
sibling-esque familial relationship. Meredith has a conflicted relationship with Richard Webber (James
Pickens Jr.), the Chief of Surgery at Seattle Grace. Richard was very close to Ellis and even had an affair
with Ellis when Meredith was a child. Due to his relationship with Meredith's mother, he tends to save,
mentor and make exceptions for her. Meredith has a habit of "collecting strays", and allows her friends
and coworkers to live in the house her mother left her. Those friends become her pseudo-family.
Meredith is endlessly loyal to those she deems her family, and will bend the traditional rules of morality
or professional protocol to keep them safe.

Having grown up in a hospital, Meredith shows immense natural talent. She possesses a steadfast, calm
ease during medical procedures and emergencies, and is a natural observer of people. She exhibits a
knack for catching subtle hints and accurately determining difficult-to-catch diagnoses. Her placid, non-
judgmental bedside manner often causes people to open up and trust her. Her surgical skills are solidly
impressive and she shows a talent and patience for medical research trials and dealing with
psychologically damaged patients.

Meredith resists Derek's advances throughout her internship, but is eventually charmed into starting a
relationship with him despite misgivings about an intern dating an attending. She is, therefore, shocked
by the arrival of Addison Montgomery (Kate Walsh), Derek's wife, unaware that he was married. Derek
struggles to choose between the two, but ultimately returns to Addison, despite Meredith begging to be
chosen instead. Meredith is devastated and turns to multiple, self-destructive means of coping. Initially
she falls on old habits of self-medicating with tequila and sex, and adopts a dog, named Doc. She also
tries to resolve some issues by searching for her long-absent father, Thatcher.[1] She learns that her
father, who left when she was five and she has not seen since, remarried and had two more daughters.
The two do not become close, but Grey becomes fond of her stepmother. Meredith spirals further when
Ellis is admitted to the hospital, revealing Ellis' diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's and her verbally
abusive tendencies. Meredith's self-destructive behavior reaches its most dangerous when she saves a
patient with a bomb in their chest by impulsively inserting her hand to hold it until the bomb squad can
remove it.
Meredith has a series of one-night stands, including one with George, who has long been in love with
her. When she cries in the middle of their encounter, their friendship temporarily ends. Meredith swears
off her behavior, agrees to be friends only with Derek, and embarks on a relationship with veterinarian
Finn Dandridge (Chris O'Donnell). Derek regrets his decision to return to his wife, and Meredith must
decide whether to continue a relationship with Finn, or allow Derek a second chance. She eventually
realizes that Derek is the one, and the two get back together.

When Ellis experiences a rare, completely lucid day and expresses her immense disappointment at how
ordinary Meredith has turned out to be, Meredith becomes depressed and possibly suicidal. During a
ferryboat accident, Meredith is knocked into the water and chooses to give up and drown, rather than
fight and swim. She flatlines at the hospital, and awakens in an "afterlife", where she interacts with
deceased former acquaintances. Ellis dies in the interim, and Meredith meets with her mother, who tells
her that she is anything but ordinary. She undergoes another round of resuscitation at the insistence of
Cristina. Derek distances himself from Meredith as the result of her self-recklessness, prompting her to
seek therapy to address her problems. Meredith sees a therapist, Dr. Wyatt (Amy Madigan), to seek
happiness and begins to successfully tackle her issues. Meanwhile, Meredith nearly fails her intern exam
after a drunken Thatcher publicly blames Meredith for the death of his wife, Susan, a distraught Grey sits
through her entire test without writing a single answer. Webber gives her a second chance to do the
exam, saving her from destroying her career.

After Meredith is promoted to a resident, her younger half-sister, Lexie Grey (Chyler Leigh), begins
working at Seattle Grace as an intern. Meredith initially rejects Lexie's attempts to form a relationship,
but slowly softens towards her. The sisters are very different people with different childhoods. Lexie had
a more idealistic family life and often has difficulty understanding her much darker sister, who does not
have the same positive associations with family as Lexie.

Meredith later initiates a neurosurgical clinical trial, enlisting Derek as a consulting neurosurgeon. The
trial fails repeatedly, but the final patient they treat survives, prompting them to reunite and move in
together. Their relationship is healthier than before but still experiences snags as the two attempt to
understand each other and navigate through what they now look at as a permanent, long-term
relationship. Meredith relies heavily on Cristina for emotional support and guidance. Eventually, Derek
and Meredith decide to marry, but on their wedding day, the pair give their "perfect" wedding ceremony
to Izzie and Alex, to marry each other during the planned ceremony instead. Meredith and Derek instead
marry by writing their wedding vows on a post-it note. Meredith then spends a month out of
commission after donating part of her liver to Thatcher.

Meredith experiences another immense trauma after the hospital is put under a lockdown from an
active mass-shooter seeking revenge against Derek. Meredith offers her own life in exchange for his and
miscarries her baby during the crisis. She goes through this traumatic experience with Cristina, who
operates on Derek while threatened at gunpoint. Meredith hides her loss and the trauma psychiatrist
refuses to clear neither Cristina nor Meredith for their return to surgery. Meredith is able to work
through her issues and become cleared, but Cristina remains deeply traumatized. Meredith covers for
and supports her friend through her dark time but is ultimately unable to fully help her return to surgery.

Meredith decides to actively try to become pregnant but learns that she has a "hostile uterus", which
leads her to consider her other possible genetic flaws. Derek, who is constantly worried about the
possibility that she will develop Alzheimer's, initiates a clinical trial hoping to cure the disease. Meredith
opts to work on the trial and appears to be leaning towards a neuro specialty.

When Webber's wife, Adele, is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, she receives a spot on the trial. Meredith
tampers with the drugs so that Adele does not receive the placebo. She and Derek decide to adopt Zola,
an orphaned baby from Malawi, and make their marriage legal. When the truth about the tampering
comes out, however, a furious Derek tells her he cannot raise a child with her because of her moral
ambiguity. Meredith is fired and tries to conceal both this and her marital separation from the adoption
counselor in order to keep Zola. Although Dr. Webber steps down as chief of surgery and takes the blame
for the trial tampering to protect Meredith, Zola is taken away. She and Derek reconcile. Meredith
chooses a general surgery specialty over neuro, and they successfully fight to get Zola back.

As her last year of residency is coming to a close, the residents travel around the country, searching for
the best jobs in their specialties. In order to finish their residency, the residents must take the medical
boards. Meredith takes the exam while sick with the flu. She decides to take a job offer at The Brigham
and Women's Hospital as the next step in her career. During a medical flight to undertake a prestigious
surgery involving conjoined twins, Meredith, Derek, Cristina, and Lexie, among others, are involved in an
aviation accident. The plane crash kills Lexie and her boyfriend Mark Sloan(Eric Dane), and the survivors
are trapped in the wooded wilderness for days waiting for help. Following their rescue, Meredith
becomes an attending general surgeon at Seattle Grace, now Seattle Grace-Mercy West. While Cristina
flees Seattle for her fellowship, Meredith, afraid of flying and change, declines her job offer, and clings to
what remains in Seattle. Cristina and Meredith begin calling the hospital “Seattle Grace Mercy Death” in
light of the immense amount of trauma, death, and pain they have experienced there.

Meredith's newfound attitude and sarcasm leads to her being dubbed "Medusa" by the hospital's new
batch of interns. In the aftermath of the plane accident, the hospital is sued and eventually found guilty
of negligence. Each victim including Derek, Cristina, Arizona Robbins (Jessica Capshaw) and herself must
receive $15 million of compensation, which leads the hospital to a near bankruptcy as the insurance
company refuses to pay due to a loophole. The doctors along with Callie Torres (Sara Ramirez) buy the
hospital with the help of the Harper Avery Foundation to prevent it from closing and become new
members of the directing board. In memory of Mark Sloan and Lexie Grey, Jackson Avery and the board
rename the hospital “Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.” Meanwhile, Meredith asks Dr. Bailey to perform
gene mapping on her to finally know whether she has Alzheimer's genes like her mother. She tests
positive for more than one of the genetic markers for the disease.
Meredith moves to the completed dream home and sells her house to Alex, who purchases it as the only
true home he's ever known. He continues Meredith's tradition of keeping the house open to any "strays"
needing a home. Meredith discovers also she is pregnant with Derek’s child once again; however the
pregnancy carries on. When Meredith’s water breaks (not long before she suffers a near miscarriage by
falling down the stairs), the baby has face presentation and is consequently delivered via emergency C-
section. While stitching Meredith up, the obstetrician who operated on her is called away to another
patient and intern Shane Ross completes the stitching. When blood begins to appear from everywhere
due to her fall, Meredith diagnoses herself in as being in disseminated intravascular coagulation. Dr.
Bailey performs a spleen removal, which saves her life. In return, Derek and Meredith name their son
Bailey.

As a spouse, surgeon, and mother, Meredith has cited a number times that she did not want to be like
either of her parents: her father had followed her mother around pathetically before leaving to be
happy, while her mother valued her career over her family. Meredith is frequently conflicted trying to
balance between the two, and fears her family are hindering her medical aspirations, as much as she
fears becoming like her mother whenever she's tempted to choose surgery over family. Meredith and
Cristina have a huge rift when Cristina confirms Meredith's fears by stating that Meredith's skills have
fallen behind Cristina's due to her familial obligations taking her away from O.R time.

Meredith and Derek come to an agreement that he, already established in his career and reputation,
would take a step back to take care of the children and allow her to shine. Meredith attempts to regain
some ground by starting a promising research trial 3-D printing portal veins. The conflict between
Cristina and Meredith widens when Cristina commandeers Meredith's resources for her own trial,
ultimately garnering a Harper Avery nomination for Cristina. Cristina and Meredith repair their
relationship when Meredith confesses that Cristina was correct, her skills have surpassed Meredith's.
Cristina moves to Switzerland, taking up a job offer from Preston Burke (Isaiah Washington), her former
attending, mentor and fiancé, who was looking for a replacement at a research hospital he was running,
thus leaving Alex in charge of being Meredith's "person" in her place, an honor he gladly accepts.

As Meredith adjusts to life without Cristina, she finds out she has a maternal half-sister named Maggie
Pierce (Kelly McCreary), who was given away for adoption by her mother right after she gave birth and
who is now working in Grey Sloan Memorial as the new Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Meredith is in
denial and rejects Maggie, thinking she would have remembered if her mother was pregnant. Meredith
tries to piece together her relationship with her mother and half-sister by going through old videos of
her mother. She eventually recovers her repressed memories of the pregnancy when she views her
mother's diary. With the support of Webber, who is Maggie's biological father, Meredith has a change of
heart, choosing to accept Maggie and begin building a relationship.
Meanwhile, Meredith and Derek's marriage becomes strained as Derek accepts an offer from the U.S.
president to participate in the Brain Mapping Initiative. He receives an offer to head the project itself in
Washington D.C., meaning that he would have to be based there permanently. Meredith puts her foot
down as she does not want to uproot their young family to move across the country for his career at the
sacrifice of her own. They begin a series of on-and-off arguments and "cold wars" over their careers.
Meredith ultimately encourages Derek to go to Washington, and Derek promptly leaves. Meredith then
proceeds to lean on her friends for support as she begins living life as a single parent while
simultaneously maintaining a streak of successful surgeries with no patient-losses. During a phone call
with Derek, Meredith and Derek agree to work things out after she tells him that she did not want them
to become "one of those couples", and he reciprocates, saying that he missed her. She privately admits
to Alex that she has realized that she could live independently of Derek but chooses not to.

Just as Meredith and Derek begin to rekindle their relationship, Derek is suddenly killed in a car accident
while en route to the airport to catch a flight for one final meeting in D.C. He was taken to an
understaffed hospital, which reluctantly took him in despite not being a trauma center. The doctors
failed to recognize his head injury in time. Derek is declared brain dead, and Meredith must go to the
medical center to consent to remove him from life support. She tells Penny, the intern who was assigned
to Derek, that every doctor has "that one" patient who dies on their watch and haunts them forever and
"that one will make you work harder, and they make you better."

After Derek's death, Meredith returns to Grey Sloan Memorial to inform the others of his passing.
Following the funeral service, Meredith impulsively packs up her belongings and leaves with the children
to an undisclosed location. Months pass by while her friends and family are unaware of her
whereabouts. Eventually, parallels show similarities in Meredith's and Ellis' lives: both have lost the love
of their life, both run away from Seattle following their loss, and both eventually give birth to a daughter.
Meredith names her newborn daughter Ellis after her mother. Having listed Alex as her emergency
contact, he meets her at the hospital after delivering baby Ellis. With the support of Alex, Meredith
returns to Seattle with the children and is later appointed Chief of General Surgery by Bailey. She sells
the "dream house" and moves back to her mother's house, having purchased it back from Alex, and now
lives there with Maggie and Amelia Shepherd, her sister-in-law. The three are pushed to learn how to
more effectively communicate, support one another, and functionally live as sisters.

Having settled back into life in Seattle, Meredith hosts a dinner party and at the party, Callie brings her
new girlfriend, who is revealed to be Penny, the intern who worked on Derek at the hospital the night he
died. Later at the event, Meredith finds out Penny will be joining her at Grey Sloan Memorial. Meredith
is forced to work with Penny, and over time, decides to effectively train her to be a better surgeon.
Meredith eventually forgives Penny, who becomes her favorite resident. Alex and Meredith continue
their close, sibling-like relationship of being each other's "person", despite Jo's displeasure and inability
to understand their closeness. He supports her when she is violently attacked by a disoriented patient,
and she supports him through his legal difficulties. Alex initiates a weekly family waffle breakfast on
Sundays, where he makes waffles for everyone in the house.
Meredith recovers enough to start seeing Nathan Riggs (Martin Henderson), Owen Hunt's former best
friend, although their relationship is complicated by the fact that Maggie confesses to Meredith that she
has feelings for Riggs. Additionally, Meredith is not ready to declare their relationship formally or
publicly. Eventually, she accepts her relationship with Riggs, but it's complicated again by the unexpected
return of Owen's sister, Megan Hunt, Riggs' fiancée. Meredith finds herself in another love triangle when
Megan rejects Riggs because he is still in love with Meredith, but Meredith pushes them to be together.

After her relationship with Riggs ends, Meredith is nominated for a Harper Avery Award for her
groundbreaking abdominal transplant surgery on Megan. After failing to attend the awards ceremony to
stay for a medical trauma, post-surgery, Meredith learns with all her closest friends in the OR and gallery
that she has won the Harper Avery Award. After her win, Meredith throws herself into her work and is
chosen to continue her project by the hospital's research contest. However, when she has difficulty
getting access to a patented polymer from Europe, she is dragged back into her mother's past, as it is
Ellis' former best friend, Marie, who is unwilling to help Meredith out. Eventually, Meredith discovers the
full truth about Marie and Ellis' falling out and is able to repair some of the damage.

During Jo and Alex's wedding, Meredith is kissed by a drunken Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti), and
the two brush it off. However, while Meredith starts dating again with the help of her matchmaker
patient, CeCe, she is pursued by Andrew, who has realized his feelings for her. Meredith also gets interest
from Atticus Lincoln (Chris Carmack), a new orthopedic surgeon, and briefly finds herself in a love
triangle. During her romantic dilemma, her estranged father, Thatcher, passes away, though they are
able to make peace before his death. Eventually, Meredith chooses Andrew, and the two begin a
relationship. Meredith breaks the hospital record for the longest single surgery and then begins research
on an ingestible diagnostic device.

While treating Gabby Rivera, a young girl with cancer whose family has been split up at the border,
Meredith commits insurance fraud to help Gabby's father pay for the surgery. When the hospital starts
investigating the case, Andrew takes the fall so that Meredith won't be sent to prison and separated
from her kids. Meredith visits Andrew in jail, telling him that she loves him and will get him out.
Meredith turns herself in and is sentenced to community service, while her medical license, though not
revoked, is put in jeopardy. She misses a court date and neglects to perform some of the hours, leading
to a temporary stay in jail. After a hearing is conducted, Meredith is able to keep her license and is
rehired at Grey-Sloan.

On Meredith's first day back, she meets Cormac Hayes (Richard Flood), the new Chief of Pediatrics, who
she later learns has been sent to her by Cristina. Hayes and Meredith grow closer and bond over their
shared loss of a spouse. Andrew begins showing signs of mania, possibly brought on by bipolar disorder,
and breaks up with Meredith when she expresses concern. Shortly after her breakup with Andrew,
Meredith learns that Alex has moved to Kansas to be with Izzie and will not be returning to Seattle.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Meredith is stressed while coping the high rate of deaths. Meredith
ultimately contracts COVID-19, and while she fights for her life, she goes in and out of consciousness.
During her fever dreams, which take place on a beach, she encounters several loved ones in the afterlife,
including Derek, George, Andrew, Mark, and Lexie. Though she is in and out of consciousness, she can
hear people talk to her in the real world. Meredith eventually recovers and gets strong enough to begin
operating again. At the same time, she also takes over Richard's position as Residency Program Director.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Meredith has fully recovered. She then meets Dr. David Hamilton
(Peter Gallagher), a neurosurgeon who is also an old friend of her mother's. He offers her the
opportunity to help find a cure to Parkinson's disease. Despite some uncertainty, she agrees to his offer
on the condition that she can do it both in Seattle and Minnesota, where the trial is located. It is also
revealed that she and Hayes briefly dated but decided to hold off on their relationship when his eldest
son started having panic attacks because of their relationship. During her time in Minnesota, Meredith
runs into her former patient, a transplant surgeon named Dr. Nick Marsh (Scott Speedman). They both
bond over being miracles and start dating. Meredith begins splitting her time between Minnesota and
Seattle, putting a strain on her relationship with Bailey that worsens when Dr. Hamilton offers Meredith a
full-time position at the Mayo Clinic that Meredith seriously considers. At the end of Season 18,
Meredith prepares herself and the kids for a move to Minnesota, but her plans are halted when Bailey
resigns following the collapse of Grey Sloan's residency program. Bailey appoints Meredith as the new
Chief of Surgery, and in the chaos of all the change, Meredith tells Nick to go back to Minnesota without
her and breaks up with him.

Development

Casting and creation

Pompeo discovered Grey's Anatomy after an extended period of doing nothing in the acting profession.
Her agent suggested she audition amongst other projects.[2] While casting actresses for the part of
Meredith Grey, series' creator Shonda Rhimes said: "I kept saying we need a girl like that girl from
Moonlight Mile, and after a while, they were like, 'We think we can get that girl from Moonlight Mile.' I
spent time with her and got to know her, and then we started casting for the men." She reported that
Grey was not an easy role to cast because of the strong verbal possibilities.[3] Rhimes was informed that
the actress in question was Pompeo, who had a deal in place with ABC, having previously tested for a
pilot on the network.[4] It has been speculated that Pompeo was the first character to be cast, but when
asked, she said she did not know of this.[5] When asked of how she created Pompeo's character, Rhimes
said:
[I was] in my pajamas at home, which is where I spent a lot of time writing. I kept asking myself, 'What
kind of woman should the heroine be?' I thought she should be someone who had made some big
mistakes. As it turns out, Meredith also has another problem: She is trying to live up to her mother's
renowned career in surgery. Meredith is the daughter of a mother who basically never spent any time
with her—the daughter of a mother who now has Alzheimer's and doesn't even remember her.[6]

Pompeo was cast as the program's titular character, described by Mary McNamara of the Los Angeles
Times as "a prickly, independent sort whose ambition, and ambivalence, is fueled by the fact that her
mother was a gifted surgeon and now suffers from Alzheimer's."[7] Grey also serves as the show's
narrator, and as such was likened in early reviews to Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), the narrator
and protagonist of Sex and the City.[8][9] After her initial contract with Grey's Anatomy expired, Pompeo
negotiated a new one, in which she would be paid US$200,000 per episode, making her and Dempsey
the highest-paid cast members on the show.[10] In 2012, Forbes recognized Pompeo as the eighth
highest-paid actress on television, with a salary of US$275,000 per episode for her role on Grey's
Anatomy.[11]

Pompeo's second contract with Grey's Anatomy expired after the eighth season, and speculation arose
that she would be leaving subsequently.[12] In September 2011, Pompeo reported that she is open to
the idea of extending her contract if invited. She told TV Guide: "I would never turn up my nose at
[Grey's Anatomy]. As long as the stories are honest and truthful, and Patrick [Dempsey] and I feel there is
material for us to be passionate about, it still beats a 9-to-5 job any day. If I hear from the fans that they
want us to keep going, then I would continue because we owe them everything." E! Online reported in
May 2012, that Pompeo, as well as all original cast members, have signed on for two more years.[13]
With the Huffington Post's announcement of season nine having officially been renewed, the contract is
set into place for Pompeo to return.[14]

Pompeo's contract expired again at the end of the twelfth season. She signed a new contract to keep her
in the starring role on the series for the thirteenth season.[15] According to a report in Deadline
Hollywood, Pompeo was earning $300,000 per episode under the new deal.[16]

On January 17, 2018, it was announced by ABC that Ellen Pompeo's contract had been renewed through
season 16. Not only does the contract renewal secure Pompeo's return as Meredith Grey, but it also
makes her a producer of Grey's Anatomy and a co-executive producer of the spin-off series. The deal will
make Pompeo the highest-paid actress currently on a dramatic TV series, with her making $575,000 per
episode and over $20 million yearly.[17] On May 10, 2019, Pompeo extended her contract through the
seventeenth season after ABC renewed the show for seasons 16 and 17