Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 20:39:31 GMT
Imogen Hale, displaced British actress currently with a recurring role as the head nurse on the medical drama Code Blue.
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Katherine "Kat" Foster, aged 34, Head ER Nurse
Kat Foster is the head nurse in the emergency department, (introduced in Season 2 after the departure/retirement of the older actress who had been playing a more maternal sort of character for the first season.) The daughter of wealthy and prominent members of New York society (who even have a wing of the hospital named in honour of their son who died tragically at a young age in a car accident,) Kat was a young woman devoted to little other than the parties and gossip of the Upper East Side. In the wake of her only sibling's death, however, she found her calling in the midst of her grief, and was determined to train to work in the kinds of trauma situations that save people's lives.
At first she thought of becoming a doctor--a surgeon--and her parents were supportive and even admiring. Kat soon discovered the insidious kind of elitism among surgeons, however, and felt that the human element of care she craved was absent. Redirecting her ambitions, she went into nursing, and excelled at it. Her parents don't understand this shift at all, and over the last decade, their relationship with their daughter has become increasingly strained as she's drifted further and further from the life of privilege they want her to be a part of, and avoiding many of her old friends and boyfriends who belonged to that same class.
When she was made head nurse in the department in season 2, her appearance was something of a shock to the ER staff, as she was a newcomer, and they didn't make it any easier for her once they found out she was one of Those Fosters ("the ones with the WING up on the fourth floor in pediatrics.") Rumours of having bought her way into the job circulated for a while, but in an environment like emergency care there is no room for incompetent people to pay their way, and so Kat has proven her worth hundreds of times over and over, and gradually come to find some measure of acceptance among her colleagues.
These bits of her characterization have been revealed over the last two seasons she's played the character, particularly in the more gossipy scenes surrounding her initial introduction to the staff, with the history of her family coming out more and more in subsequent dramatic plot arcs. Kat has proven herself (more or less) and found a kind of home in the long shifts and grueling work at the hospital, but there's still a sense that there's a kind of panicked emptiness in her personal life which she has only partially filled with her professional contentment. She knows, rationally, that she can't save everyone, but traumatic patient deaths--especially children--always hit her hard, though she tries to hide it and get on with her job as best she can.]
She's up for any plots, really. She's a kind person, pretty down to earth, and frankly more familiar with the world of the stage than the screen (big or small) but she's hoping to break into that part of the industry and perhaps put some distance between herself and the legacy of her stage-famous parents.
Sorry not sorry the majority of my characters are British I can't help it. Well I could help it, but I won't.
[mmm copypasta:
Katherine "Kat" Foster, aged 34, Head ER Nurse
Kat Foster is the head nurse in the emergency department, (introduced in Season 2 after the departure/retirement of the older actress who had been playing a more maternal sort of character for the first season.) The daughter of wealthy and prominent members of New York society (who even have a wing of the hospital named in honour of their son who died tragically at a young age in a car accident,) Kat was a young woman devoted to little other than the parties and gossip of the Upper East Side. In the wake of her only sibling's death, however, she found her calling in the midst of her grief, and was determined to train to work in the kinds of trauma situations that save people's lives.
At first she thought of becoming a doctor--a surgeon--and her parents were supportive and even admiring. Kat soon discovered the insidious kind of elitism among surgeons, however, and felt that the human element of care she craved was absent. Redirecting her ambitions, she went into nursing, and excelled at it. Her parents don't understand this shift at all, and over the last decade, their relationship with their daughter has become increasingly strained as she's drifted further and further from the life of privilege they want her to be a part of, and avoiding many of her old friends and boyfriends who belonged to that same class.
When she was made head nurse in the department in season 2, her appearance was something of a shock to the ER staff, as she was a newcomer, and they didn't make it any easier for her once they found out she was one of Those Fosters ("the ones with the WING up on the fourth floor in pediatrics.") Rumours of having bought her way into the job circulated for a while, but in an environment like emergency care there is no room for incompetent people to pay their way, and so Kat has proven her worth hundreds of times over and over, and gradually come to find some measure of acceptance among her colleagues.
These bits of her characterization have been revealed over the last two seasons she's played the character, particularly in the more gossipy scenes surrounding her initial introduction to the staff, with the history of her family coming out more and more in subsequent dramatic plot arcs. Kat has proven herself (more or less) and found a kind of home in the long shifts and grueling work at the hospital, but there's still a sense that there's a kind of panicked emptiness in her personal life which she has only partially filled with her professional contentment. She knows, rationally, that she can't save everyone, but traumatic patient deaths--especially children--always hit her hard, though she tries to hide it and get on with her job as best she can.]
She's up for any plots, really. She's a kind person, pretty down to earth, and frankly more familiar with the world of the stage than the screen (big or small) but she's hoping to break into that part of the industry and perhaps put some distance between herself and the legacy of her stage-famous parents.
Sorry not sorry the majority of my characters are British I can't help it. Well I could help it, but I won't.