Chicago MedicineThe nurse station looks different Season 11 As an actress Marlyne Barrett Take a step back from the series.
Since the show premiered in 2015, Barrett has played Ed Nurse Maggie Lockwood on ED Nurse Maggie Lockwood. Deadline Reported on Thursday, August 28.
According to the media, Barrett’s rest was “conceived as a temporary leave” and she will return in the future.
US Weekly Contact NBC, the network has no further comments on casting updates.
Barrett, 46, has Fixing device Chicago Medicine Since the series begins. In season 5 of the 2019 series, Maggie fought breast cancer and later helped the actress solve her health problems.
In September 2022, Barrett announced that she had Quietly fighting uterine and ovarian cancer After being diagnosed with that July.
“When my character experienced breast cancer due to breast cancer, I contacted me via social media,” she recalls. people In September 2022. “They gave me the courage, so I felt inevitably seeing them knowing me.”
Two years later, Barrett revealed her in September 2024 Complete relief. Meanwhile, it has adjusted what Barrett’s Maggie will do next throughout the entire season 10 week after week.
The main story of Season 10 is the nurse’s strike, with Maggie at the forefront. Entering Season 11, Barrett is one of three original actors expected to return.
“We’re definitely going to give Maggie something great,” Showrunner Allen MacDonald Exclusively tell us in May. “We’re going to see all these nurses.”

Although Barrett’s future as Maggie has now changed the upcoming season S. Epatha Merkerson and Oliver Plattplays Sharon Goodwin and Dr. Daniel Charles respectively, will be back.
Deadline Merkerson, 72, and Platt, 65, have chosen the 2025-2026 option and will return to another season, according to reports in June.
Although fans will miss Maggie in the emergency room, us OG stars confirmed earlier this month Nick Gehlfuss Will be Take a guest role As Dr. Will Hallstead. The will the audience last saw in the season finale in May 2023, when he left Chicago for a new adventure in Seattle.
Chicago Medicine NBC returns on Wednesday, October 1st, at 8 p.m. ET.

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