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Actor Jesse Williams (2019): Grateful for "Infinite Possibilities"
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After twelve seasons, series star Jesse Williams leaves the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy".
This was reported by several US media on Thursday with reference to a message from the broadcaster ABC.
Initially, the industry service »Deadline« reported on it.
Williams has played Jackson Avery since season six (2009). With the beginning of the seventh season (2010), Dr. Avery becomes one of the main characters. His contract expires at the end of the current 17th season. Williams was quoted as saying that he will be forever grateful for the “endless possibilities” that the series makers have opened up for him: “The experience and perseverance after nearly 300 hours of world-famous television is a gift that I will always carry with me. «
Jesse Williams was born in Chicago in 1981.
Prior to his acting career, he taught English and history in a high school.
As an actor, he was last seen in the Amazon series "Little Fires Everywhere".
He also produced several episodes of "Grey's Anatomy" and "Rebel" as well as the Oscar-winning film "Two Distant Strangers", a half-hour work about a black man who has to experience his own death again and again through police violence.
Spoiler warning:
The following are details from the current episode that aired in the US on Thursday.
They thought for a long time how Avery's story should end in "Grey's Anatomy", after all the idea arose to bring Sarah Drew back as April Kepner to say goodbye.
In the episode "Look Up Child" broadcast in the USA on Thursday, Avery revealed to his ex-wife and mother of his daughter that he would like to take over the family foundation in order to "create real equality in medicine."
That would mean moving from Seattle to Boston and giving up his job as senior plastic surgeon at Gray Sloan Memorial Hospital.
sak / dpa