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Meredith Grey

Meredith Grey

Played by Ellen Pompeo

POSITION:
Attending

STRENGTHS:
Intelligent; compassionate; hard-working; has good medical instincts and a natural flair for medicine.

WEAKNESSES:
Oftentimes outspoken; easily distracted; indecisive.

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"Well I still have some concerns and if her CT was clean then I have even more concern" - Meredith Grey

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  • Derek Shepherd about Meredith:

    "She's got her mother's talent. She's got her mother's looks, Richard. What if she has her mother's disease?"

  • Cristina Yang to Meredith:

    "Can't you go to the chief and use your dead mommy connections?"

  • Richard Webber to Meredith:

    "I wasn't your advocate. I never stood up for you. I should have fought for you Meredith..."

  • Derek Shepherd to Meredith:

    "I want to marry you. I want to have kids with you. I want to build us a house..."

  • Cristina Yang to Meredith:

    "Your marriage is filled with secrets and felons. I mean, why am I asking your advice?"

  • Cristina Yang to Meredith:

    "Unlike you, I can separate my personal life from my job."

  • to Meredith:

    "I know he's not your dad. But you have his blood and I don't, so please, give me my dad."

  • Cristina Yang to Meredith

    "He can see the crazy right under the Meredith Grey surface."

  • Derek Shepherd about Meredith:

    "Today I watched Meredith perform an emergency craniotomy by herself. She was perfect."

  • Cristina Yang about Meredith:

    "She's doing McDreamy. She's doing McDreamy and she's lying about it."

  • Derek Shepherd to Meredith:

    "Meredith, I want your crappy babies, all of them."

  • Cristina Yang to Meredith

    "Being aware of your crap, and actually overcoming your crap are two very different things."

  • Cristina Yang to Meredith:

    "I never gave you any crap about your post-it."

  • Owen Hunt to Meredith:

    "You are fearless and I don't mean that in a good way."

  • Owen Hunt about Cristina and Meredith:

    "I thought they were friends."

  • Derek Shepherd to Meredith:

    "I love you Meredith Grey, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you."

Character Bio

LIKES:
Derek Shepherd; scrubbing in; ice cream; tequila

DISLIKES:
Estranged wives; complicated relationships; sharing her house (sometimes)

NOTABLE RELATIONSHIPS:
Even though relationships were never Meredith's strong point, she finally married her one true love, Derek Shepherd – twice – on a Post-it, as well as in an official ceremony at City Hall.

FAMILY:
Considered "royally inbred" by the other interns, Meredith is the daughter of the late, world-renowned surgeon, Dr. Ellis Grey. Most recently, Meredith and Derek adopted a beautiful baby girl named Zola.

OTHER:

Thanks to her last name, Meredith has always had a lot of high expectations and responsibility riding on her shoulders. During the shootings, Meredith witnessed Derek take a bullet to his chest. Their marriage was rocked by the revelation that Meredith had tampered with Derek's Alzheimer's Trial, but the two have since reconciled. Most recently, both Meredith was in a plane crash where she lost her half sister, Lexie Grey, had to suture her husband's hand with a safety pin, and perform an emergency pericardiocentisis on Mark Sloan. Stranded in the woods, Meredith's future remains unclear.

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Actor Bio

Aside from her starring role on Grey's Anatomy, we like to remember Ellen Pompeo as the only non-beer-chugging character on the wildly successful Old School—where she held her own on the big screen alongside comedy heavyweights McHottie Luke Wilson, McDashing Vince Vaughn and McWitty Will Ferrell.

Her ever-so-popular portrayal of Meredith Grey earned Pompeo a Golden Globe nomination in 2007 and countless—perhaps fanatical—fans. Along with her fellow Grey's Anatomy cast members, she also received the 2007 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Television Drama.

A Boston native, Pompeo made her major studio film debut in Brad Silberling's Moonlight Mile, alongside the McScrumptious Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman and Susan Sarandon. She went on to star in the wildly successful Old School as wall as in Steven Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can, opposite the McSexy Leonardo DiCaprio.

Prior to Moonlight Mile, Pompeo had starred in several independent features, including In the Weeds and Coming Soon.