The Good Doctor premiered in 2017 and is currently in its sixth season. The popular medical drama series continues to keep us on the edge of our seats, so we eagerly anticipate its return.
The Good Doctor Season 6 will continue on Monday, October 17 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with the airing of the next episode. This new episode is titled A Big Sign, and the plot summary is as follows:
After falling and injuring her ankle, the team treats a well-known marriage counselor. However, when she provides them with relationship advice, Dr. Morgan Reznick recognizes that their patient may be suffering from something far more serious.
Dr. Audrey Lim is determined to uncover the truth about what transpired during her surgery in the operating room and launches her own internal investigation.
Meet The Cast of The Good Doctor Below:
1. Freddie Highmore
As a young youngster, Freddie Highmore distinguished himself in the film industry as a remarkable talent. Previously awarded the Empire Award for Most Promising Newcomer, Highmore is a double SAG candidate and a two-time winner of the Film Critics award for Best Young Actor in the globe.
After appearing in Jean-Jacques Annauds Two Brothers, Helena Bonham Carters Women Talking Dirty, and Ken Branaghs Five Children and It, Freddie Highmore rose to notoriety as Peter in the Oscar-nominated Finding Neverland.
After co-starring with Russell Crowe in Ridley Scotts A Good Year, Freddie went on to portray the title character in Luc Bessons Arthur and the Invisibles trilogy, during which time he became fluent in French.
In America, Highmore portrayed the main character in the Oscar-nominated film August Rush alongside Robin Williams and appeared opposite himself in The Spiderwick Chronicles as twins. The toast was Freddies third collaboration with Helena Bonham Carter as his mother, and he returned to New York to film The Art of Getting By with Emma Roberts for 20th Century Fox.
Highmore voiced Astro Boy, The Golden Compass, and Justin and the Knights of Valour while pursuing his study. He also filmed the title character in the apartheid-era film Master Haroldand the Boys in South Africa. With perfect scores on all of his GCSE and A-level exams, Freddie graduated from the University of Cambridge with a double first in Arabic and Spanish.
Highmore starred in Close to the Enemy by Stephen Poliakoff and The Journey by Nick Hamm, opposite Timothy Spall and John Hurt.
In 2016, Highmore wrapped production on the fifth and final season of the Emmy-nominated series Bates Motel as the iconic Norman Bates, for which he received the Peoples Choice Award for Best Actor. After writing an episode in Season Four, Highmore wrote two more episodes and made his directing debut in Season Five.
Highmore and Andy Samberg feature in the HBO mockumentary Tour de Pharmacy, directed by Jake Szymanski and released in June 2017. You can now see Highmore appearing as Dr. Shaun Murphy on ABCs The Good Doctor, which is presently in its second season and was the No. 1 new drama series last fall.
2. Hill Harper
Hill Harper is a bestselling novelist, award-winning actor, and philanthropist. Harper starred in the critically acclaimed dramas CSI: NY, How It Really Happened with Hill Harper and Homeland. Harper will reprise his role as Dr. Marcus Andrews on The Good Doctor, ABCs No. 1 new drama series from last fall. He can also be seen in the All Eyez on Me biopic of Tupac Shakur.
Harper has won seven NAACP Image Awards for his writing and acting. He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers and has been nominated for seven NAACP Image Awards. In addition, Harper launched The Manifest Your Destiny Foundation, which empowers marginalized youngsters via mentoring, scholarship, and grant programs.
Harper graduated magna cum laude as valedictorian of his department from Brown University with a bachelors degree and cum laude from Harvard Law School with a Juris Doctorate. In addition, he holds Honorary Doctoral Degrees from Winston-Salem State University, Cheyney University, Westfield State College, Tougaloo College, Le-Moyne-Owen College, Dillard University, and Howard University.
Obama appointed Harper to the Presidents Cancer Panel in 2011, where she now serves. Harper travels the globe as a motivational speaker, addressing current events and enlightening themes to diverse adolescent, adult, couple, and business leader audiences. People Magazine named him one of the Sexiest Men Alive in 2014.
3. Richard Schiff
Richard Schiff has had a distinguished career in film, television, and the stage. Born and raised in New York City, he had an early interest in movies and theatre.
Schiff is presently gaining acclaim and Emmy-chatter for his performance as Dr. Aaron Glassman on ABCs The Good Doctor, which starred Freddie Highmore, an extraordinarily talented young surgeon with savant syndrome.
In the HBO series Ballers, Schiff portrays Dwayne The Rock Johnsons extremely successful and demanding boss, Brett Anderson. In addition, he has a recurring role in the currently filming second season of STARZs Counterpart.
Schiffs other television appearances include his acclaimed portrayal of White House Communications Director Toby Ziegler on The West Wing, for which he won the Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was nominated for a total of three Emmys. Recently, he portrayed Don Cheadles deceitful boss in the Showtime series House of Lies.
In the period drama Manhattan on WGN America, he portrayed the mysterious Mr. Fisher, who is tasked with discovering spies working on the Manhattan project. In the criminal thriller Rogue on Direct TV, he portrayed a Machiavellian power broker, and in The Affair on Showtime, he portrayed a prominent city attorney.
Schiff has wrapped production on the upcoming feature films Clemency, starring Alfre Woodard, and Vandal, about the youthful leader of a famed Miami graffiti team, and the independent film Safe Spaces. Recently, he has been in Shock and Awe, Man of Steel, The Gambler, Kill the Messenger, Made in Dagenham, and The Infidel, among other films.
He has appeared in over 60 films, including The Lost World: Jurassic Park, I Am Sam, the Oscar-nominated biopic Ray, Se7en, Hoffa, Malcolm X, People I Know, Forces of Nature, City Hall, Crazy in Alabama, Deep Impact, Living Out Loud, Doctor Dolittle, My Life, and The Hutsucker Proxy.
Schiff began his career in New York, where he founded and directed off-Broadway shows starring Angela Bassett, such as Antigone. During this time, Schiff also graduated from City College of New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater (CCNY). Afterward, he performed in a number of plays with Tim Robbins Actors Gang.
He has maintained a prominent presence in the theatre, starring with Al Pacino in Glengarry Glen Ross on Broadway and in Eugene ONeills Hughie at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. After previously performing the play at the George Street Playhouse, he starred in the one-man performance Underneath the Lintel in Londons West End. He has received the Ovation Theater Award and the Drama-Logue Award.
In 2000, Schiff was awarded the coveted Townsend Harris medal for Outstanding Postgraduate Achievement by City College of New York. Author Upton Sinclair, actor Edward G. Robinson, and Dr. Jonas Salk are among the past recipients. Along with President Clinton and writer Walter Mosley, CCNY awarded Schiff an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 2004.
4. Catherine Chang
Throughout her career, Christina Chang has played numerous significant parts in famous television series. She presently stars in David Shores The Good Doctor, which was the most popular new drama series last autumn. Chang was a recurrent character in the first season and a series regular in the second.
She plays Dr. Audrey Lim, who has developed as a powerful adversary to Dr. Neil Melendez (Nicholas Gonzalez), often dividing the expanding group of residents between themselves.
Chang was born and reared by her Chinese-Filipino father and American mother in Taipei, Taiwan. She traveled to the United States at age 17 to study theatre and cinema in Kansas, her mothers native state, then acting in Seattle. Chang earned a masters degree in fine arts from the University of Washington in Seattle. She then moved on to an off-Broadway production of The Trojan Women by Tina Landau.
She has since appeared as a recurring guest star on other popular television programs, including Nashville, Desperate Housewives, 24, and Rizzoli & Isles. She also appeared in the motion pictures Random Hearts, 28 Days, Deadline, and Girls Club.
Changs other passions include helping with children and following in her mothers footsteps as a school counselor. She speaks Mandarin Chinese as well.
5. Fiona Gubelmann
Fiona Gubelmann is best recognized for her role as the female lead opposite Elijah Wood in the critically acclaimed FX television series Wilfred. She presently portrays Dr. Morgan Reznick in ABCs The Good Doctor, the No. 1 new drama series from last fall, and became a series regular beginning with Season 2 after guest-starring in the final five episodes of Season 1.
Gubelmanns credits include Mad Men, New Girl, Modern Family, The League, Castle, IZombie, Key & Peele, Parenthood, We Are Men, How to Be a Gentleman, and Dont Trust the B in Apartment 23. She has recurring roles in the Netflix series One Day at a Time, the first scripted series on YouTube, Sing It!, and the NBC series Telenovela.
Gubelmann has played the lead in a number of Hallmark films, including the Hallmark Channel original film Christmas Next Door, starring Jesse Metcalfe, and most recently in the Hallmark original film Royally Ever After.
6. Will Yun Lee
Dr. Alex Park is portrayed by Will Yun Lee in The Good Doctor, ABCs No. 1 new drama series from the previous fall. Based on the same-named South Korean serial, the show launched in September 2017 to a large number of viewers and positive reviews; as a result, it was renewed for a second season. Lee will return to his role as a series regular in the fall.
Lee portrayed Taka, one of the leading roles in the USA Networks ongoing series Falling Water, under the direction of Juan Carlos Fresnadilla. The supernatural drama mystery centered on three strangers who, upon realizing they were dreaming portions of the same dream, learned they control the fate of the world.
Lee portrayed Takeshi Kovacs in the Netflix original series Altered Carbon, opposite Joel Kinnaman. Based on Richard K. Morgans cyberpunk noir novel of the same name, the series is set more than 300 years in the future and chronicles the journey of a prisoner reborn in a new body who must solve a mind-bending murder in order to gain his freedom. The series debuted on February 2, 2018, and is now available on Netflix.
His additional television roles include Sang Min in Hawaii Five-0, Kwon in the Michelle Yeoh-starring Strike Back on Cinemax, and Mr. Gus in the last season of Alan Balls True Blood on HBO.
On the feature film side, Lee was most recently featured as Agent Park in New Line Cinemas monster science fiction blockbuster Rampage, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The film made its debut on April 4, 2018.
Dr. Kim Park in Warner Bros. Blockbuster Hit San Andreas, opposite Dwayne Johnson and Paul Giamatti; Timothy Cress in Spy, alongside Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, and Bobby Cannavale, among others; Harada in Twentieth Century Foxs The Wolverine, opposite Hugh Jackman; Captain Cho in FilmNations Red Dawn, opposite Chris Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson; and Marek in
Following in the footsteps of his highly influential Taekwondo Grandmaster father, Lee possesses extraordinary Taekwondo skills. Lee graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in political science and ethnic studies after receiving a full sports scholarship and majoring in both political science and ethnic studies.
Lee presently resides with his wife and children in Tarzana.
7. Paige Spara
Paige Spara is best recognized for her role as Dr. Shaun Murphys neighbor Lea on ABCs The Good Doctor, the falls No. 1 new drama series. She has also appeared in Kevin from Work and Home Again, both directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Reese Witherspoon and Michael Sheen.
Spara completed her education at Marymount Manhattan College.
8. Noah Galvin
Noah Galvin is well-known for his theatrical and cinematic work. Galvin is well-known for his scene-stealing performances in the films Booksmart and Assassination Nation, in addition to his breakthrough role as Kenny on ABCs The Real ONeals.
He has starred on Broadway in Waitress and was the first actor to don the blue polo as Evan in the TonyAward-winning Dear Evan Hansen after Ben Platt.
Galvin is also a talented voice actress who portrays Prince Rupert in the critically praised and endearing fantasy action podcast The Two Princes. Galvins best-known audiobook performances include Perks of Being a Wallflower and What If Its Us. He can also be seen in The Other Two, an HBO Max Original.
9. Bria Samon Henderson
Bria Samon Henderson now portrays Dr. Jordan Allen on ABCs smash medical drama series The Good Doctor, created by David Shore.
Previously, she portrayed Margaret Sloan, the radical feminist and editor of Ms. Magazine, in the critically praised FX for Hulu limited series Mrs. America, alongside Cate Blanchett, Niecy Nash, Uzo Aduba, Margo Martindale, Rose Byrne, and Sarah Paulson. The American Film Institute ranked the series among the finest television programs of 2020.
At the beginning of this year, Niecy Nash nominated Henderson for the Women in Film Pathmaker Grant, which included a profile in Essence. She earned the prize for Outstanding Comedic Actress (Short Film) at the third annual Micheaux Film Festival for her role in the short film Prepared.
Henderson performed in the National Black Theatre production of The First Deep Breath by Lee Edward Colston II, under the direction of Malika Oyetimein, and was selected for the NBC Spotlight Diversity Showcase.
She obtained her MFA in acting from the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington and her BA in drama from Spelman College.
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