“To be able to explore that with a studio so thoughtful and caring about women and the dynamic, wonderful, delicious, powerful goddess energy that we have in particular is what makes working on a Shondaland show so incredible.” “I love being on a show that puts women in positions like the first fire chief of Seattle and highlights not just the female experience, but the Black female experience and what the stresses of that are and also what the triumphs of that are,” says Dandridge, who also co-stars alongside Octavia Spencer in Apple TV+’s important series chronicling Black and brown missing girls, Truth Be Told. Merle Dandridge as Chief Natasha Ross on Station 19. And now, as Station 19’s mid-season February 23 premiere brings us back into the Seattle Fire Department, we find Chief Natasha Ross standing her ground and protecting both her own and her police counterparts in a tense and triggering sequence of events. Over the past two decades, Dandridge has captured viewers’ attention regardless of if it was in a smaller role like Rita Roosevelt on FX’s Sons of Anarchy or a mainstay like Grace Greenleaf on OWN’s Greenleaf. In fact, it’s her 2004 voice-acting role as Alyx Vance in the video game Half-Life 2 that she has to thank for her current role as Marlene in the wildly popular HBO series The Last of Us, based on the video game in which Dandridge voiced the same character: The game’s creator and show’s co-creator, Neil Druckmann, was a fan of Alyx. In 2003, she left New York City for Los Angeles and began booking small TV roles and voicing video game characters. She went on to star on Broadway in now-canonical productions as Aida in Aida, Joanne in Rent, and the Lady of the Lake in Mike Nichols’ Spamalot. I just felt like the railroad tracks were laid by God, and I just got on ’em and rode.”ĭandridge got a full ride to attend the Theatre Conservatory at Chicago’s Roosevelt University and honed her craft, kept disciplined, and allowed herself to open up spiritually, creatively, and dynamically through that work ethic. It was as if my life switched into Technicolor in the theater department. You’re often in survival mode in such a white, homogenous environment. Having grown up in very structured environments on military bases then in Nebraska, where being a person of color, let alone a person of mixed race, stifled. “ I found a community, something that drew my personality out and made me feel freer to express myself. “I really hadn’t been that social and was raised as an only child because my half-siblings are so much older than me,” says Dandridge, whose Station 19 character was recently made a series regular. It was there that Dandridge found her tribe, as she puts it. But while she was in high school in Nebraska, a friend suggested drama class as an easy elective. The woman we have come to know as Station 19’s Chief Ross was born in Okinawa, Japan, and moved around a lot as the daughter of a U.S. New episodes of the series stream on Disney Plus in the UK.Merle Dandridge didn’t dream of being an actress. New episodes also become available for next-day streaming on Hulu. For those that have cut ties with traditional cable/satellite television, ABC is available to stream on live TV streaming services such as Fubo TV, Hulu with Live TV and YouTube TV. Station 19 is an ABC original series and as such, new episodes air live directly on the broadcast network. However, as we get closer to the season premiere and one is released, we'll place it here. Station 19 season 7 trailerĪ season 7 trailer is not yet available. Viewers can also anticipate seeing the following in the new season:Īdditionally, we anticipate Grey’s Anatomy star Chandra Wilson will continue making her rounds on Station 19 as Miranda Bailey. Ortiz has previously been spotted in The Long Game, Righteous Thieves, Shooter and Rosewood. That means Jaina Lee Ortiz returns as the glue of Station 19, Andy Herrera. Barrett Doss and Carlos Miranda, Station 19 (Image credit: ABC/James Clark) Station 19 season 7 castĪs of publication, all of the main cast members are expected to return since they are still under contract as mentioned in Deadline.
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