The Resident is an American medical drama television series that aired on Fox from January 21, 2018, to January 17, 2023. The series premiered on Fox as a mid-season replacement during the 2017–18 television season. The series focuses on the lives and duties of staff members at fictional Chastain Park Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, with generally a critical eye into current issues of medical practice and tensions in the healthcare industry.
Created by Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore, and Roshan Sethi, the series was purchased by Fox from Showtime in 2017. In May 2017, Fox ordered the project to series, with a 14-episode season order. The series premiere was a lead-out to the Vikings-Eagles NFC Championship Game. In May 2021, the series was renewed for a fifth season, which premiered on September 21, 2021. In May 2022, the series was renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on September 20, 2022. In April 2023, the series was canceled after six seasons.
Cast and characters
Main Matt Czuchry as Dr. Conrad Theodore Hawkins: the titular resident. A third-year resident (later attending physician) in Internal Medicine at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital, he is a former Navy Corpsman who served with the Marines in Afghanistan, which is where he learned some of his unconventional medical techniques. It is mentioned that Hawkins has PTSD.
In season 3, he also gets a job as the team doctor for Georgia FC. At the beginning of the series, he and Dr. Bell often clash with different medical practices each uses and the cost of treatment but over time they seem to mend fences and work quite well together.
Over the seasons, Hawkins becomes close friends with his resident Devon Pravesh. In the pilot Pravesh is introduced as an eager Harvard medical grad and Hawkins a doctor whose military background has led to his practicing "cowboy medicine".
Hawkins and Nic Nevin, a nurse practitioner, had a relationship prior to the start of the series. They broke up but by the end of season 1, they get back together. In the season 4 premiere, they get married. They have a daughter, Georgiana Grace "Gigi" Hawkins.
Following Nic's death in season 5, Hawkins quits his job at Chastain and works in private practice as a concierge doctor for the next three years to have more time with his young daughter. He does return to Chastain.
In season 5, Hawkins starts to develop feelings for Billie Sutton. (One of Nic’s best friends, she had joined the hospital before Nic's death.) Hawkins is involved for a while in Season 6 with Kincaid Sullivan, but afterward he and Billie admit their feelings to each other. They are still together by series end.
Emily VanCamp (seasons 1–5) as Nicolette 'Nic' Marie Nevin, a nurse practitioner at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is Conrad's love interest, and they marry after years together. A caring and compassionate nurse, Nic will go the extra mile for her patients.
In season 1, she is arrested and framed by Dr. Lane Hunter, after learning that Hunter is giving chemotherapy to healthy people and telling them that they have cancer to make a profit. The framing is discovered, and Nic is exonerated by the end of season 1. It is revealed that Nic's mother died when she was young, and that her younger sister Jessie became dependent on her. Later Jessie became addicted to drugs. In season 2, after years of drug abuse, Jessie needs a kidney transplant. She can't wait enough time after getting clean. Nic convinces their undependable father to donate a kidney, as she is not a match. The two start to rebuild their relationship. Even with the kidney transplant, Jessie dies in the season 3 premiere.
Nic becomes close to surgical resident, Dr. Mina Okafor from Nigeria. The latter has to return to Nigeria. Later in the series, Nic is best friends with Dr. Billie Sutton. It is revealed that the two have been best friends since they were kids.
Prior to the start of the series, she and Conrad were in a relationship and were even expecting to have a baby together. But after a miscarriage and Conrad’s not being able to open up to her and his reckless behavior, she breaks up with him. It is clear from the pilot the two still very much have feelings for each other. She tries to move on with Dr. Jude Silva, a trauma surgeon at Chastain and Conrad’s old Marines buddy, but it doesn’t work out due to her feelings for Conrad. By the end of season 1, she and Conrad get back together. In season 4, she and Conrad get married and later discover that she is pregnant. Not long after finding out she is pregnant, Nic gets attacked by a patient and nearly dies, but she and the unborn child survive. Nic and Conrad have a daughter, Georgiana Grace "Gigi" Hawkins, at the end of season 4. In season 5, Nic dies after suffering a traumatic brain injury in a car crash, leaving Conrad and Chastain devastated.
Manish Dayal as Dr. Devon Pravesh: a first-year resident (intern) (later an attending physician) at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. A Yale University and Harvard Medical School grad, Devon is shocked and amazed by Conrad's unconventional medical practices in the pilot, going as far as to ask for a replacement resident. Eventually, Conrad rubs off on him and Devon becomes an excellent and capable doctor.
After the time jump in season 5, Devon becomes an attending at Chastain before leaving that position to focus on running clinical trials. In the beginning of the series, he is engaged to an Indian woman named Priya, but after a brief fling with a medical pharmaceutical representative in season 2, he realizes that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life with her and calls off the wedding. By season 5, he is in a long-term relationship with Leela Devi, whom he calls “the love of his life”. In Season 6, they become engaged.
Shaunette Renée Wilson (seasons 1–4) as Mina Okafor: a second-year surgical resident at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is very intelligent and does not care for anyone's opinion, which AJ Austin seems to find intriguing. In season 4, after losing a fight over her expiring visa, Mina decides to return to her home country of Nigeria willingly rather than be deported or continue to fight the deportation. Bruce Greenwood as Randolph Bell: Chief of Surgery, later CEO, and a general surgeon at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. He leaves his CEO position on his own accord, and threatens Red Rock to try to get rid of him due to his iron clad contract. He is later demoted from Chief of Surgery in season 3 by Red Rock and starts his own talk show, Ring the Bell. In season 5, he is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Throughout the series, Bell is clearly attracted to Kit Voss, who becomes one of his closest friends. By Season 5, they begin to date and in Season 6, they get married. Merrin Dungey as Claire E. Thorpe (season 1), the original CEO of Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She is fired by the board after Drs. Hunter and Bell accuse her of financial practices that endanger patients at Chastain. She is succeeded as CEO by Bell. Melina Kanakaredes as Lane Hunter (season 1; recurring season 2): a double board-certified physician in oncology and Radiation Oncology, as well as the former head of Oncology at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She also owned her own medical clinics. She is arrested at the end of season 1 after it's revealed that she has been giving her patients unnecessary chemotherapy in order to get paid higher premiums and had discreetly murdered a patient and framed Nic for it to cover up her crimes. She's later killed during season 2 by a vengeful husband and brother of two of her over-treated female patients after being let out on bail. Moran Atias as Renata Morali (season 1), the Head of Publicity at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. She leaves the hospital alongside Claire Thorpe following the latter's firing. Malcolm-Jamal Warner as August Jeremiah "AJ / The Raptor" Austin (seasons 2–6; recurring season 1): a triple-board certified surgeon in Cardiothoracic, General and Trauma Surgery who joins Chastain Park Memorial Hospital at Bell's and Okafor's urging. Glenn Morshower as Marshall Winthrop (season 2; recurring seasons 1 & 3–5; guest season 6), a businessman and Conrad's estranged father. He becomes chairman of Chastain's board in season 2. Later he steps down to take over and reform the medical device company QuoVadis. It had been operated under false claims by its founder and CEO Gordon Page, who has died. Jane Leeves as Elizabeth Katherine "Kit" Voss (seasons 2–6):, the head of orthopaedic surgery, and a fiery doctor who strongly advocates for her patients. In season 4, after Chastain becomes a public hospital, she calls out the Governor of Georgia for only interviewing men for the new CEO position. Due to her leadership skills, the Governor offers Kit the CEO position. Kit remains the CEO through the end of the series, becoming one of the first CEOs to get Chastain into the black. Throughout the series, she maintains a close friendship with Dr. Bell, encouraging him become a better person. They begin dating in Season 5, and marry in Season 6. Morris Chestnut as Barrett Cain (seasons 3 & 4): a renowned neurosurgeon, promoted by Red Rock to Chief of Surgery after they demote Bell.
It is revealed that Cain is a former college football player who almost made it to the NFL before a career-ending injury that made him bitter. In season 4, Cain is hit by an ambulance while saving a woman's life and struggles to recover from his potentially career ending injuries while also facing a lawsuit for his actions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cain also becomes close with Devon's sickle cell anemia patient Rose. They begin a romantic relationship with each other. In season 5, he has left Chastain for a better paying job at Johns Hopkins.
Jessica Lucas as Billie Sutton (seasons 5 & 6; recurring season 4): a neurosurgery resident at Chastain and Nic's lifelong close friend. In season 5, she becomes the new Chief of Surgery (after the three-year time jump). In season 6, she and Conrad start dating. Anuja Joshi as Leela Devi (seasons 5 & 6; recurring season 4): a new surgical intern at Chastain who struggles with dyslexia while trying to prove herself in the operating room. After the time jump, she is now a resident at Chastain, living with Devon after a four-year relationship and figuring out her life with the help of her twin sister, Padma. Miles Fowler as Trevor Daniels (season 5), a First Year Anaesthesiology Resident and Billie's biological son, whom she gave up after birth due to being conceived from a rape when she was 13 years old. He later leaves Chastain during season 5 and takes work at a medical research company. Kaley Ronayne as Kincaid "Cade" Sullivan (season 6; recurring season 5), an attending Physician who is double board-certified in Critical Care and Emergency Medicine. Andrew McCarthy as Ian Sullivan (season 6; guest season 5), an Attending Physician and a renowned pediatric surgeon and Cade's estranged father.
Recurring Tasie Lawrence as Priya Nair (seasons 1 & 2), a reporter and Devon's former fiancée. Michael Hogan as Dr. Albert Nolan, a trauma surgery attending of Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. Violett Beane as Lily Elizabeth Kendall (season 1), one of Lane's chemotherapy patients. Warren Christie as Dr. Jude Silva (season 1), a trauma attending. Tasso Feldman as Dr. Irving Feldman, an ER doctor. He elopes with Jessica Moore in season 4's "Doors Opening, Doors Closing" after getting engaged to her in season 3. Jessica Miesel as Jessica Moore, a gossip-loving scrub nurse. She and Feldman get engaged in season 3 and then elope in season 4's "Doors Opening, Doors Closing". Jocko Sims as Dr. Benjamin Wilmot (season 1), an internal medicine attending.