‘Brilliant Minds’ Star Teddy Sears on the Chemistry Between Nichols and Wolf: ‘These Two Can’t Keep Their Hands Off Each Other’

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Max Gao SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “The Lovesick Widow,” the eighth episode of the first season of NBC’s “Brilliant Minds.” Teddy Sears is the kind of character actor whose face is often more recognizable than his name.

After making his professional acting debut in an episode of the daytime soap “One Life to Live” in 2001, the Maryland native has made a living jumping from guest role to guest role: on “Law & Order” (“SVU” and “Criminal Intent”), and, among others, “Mad Men,” “Chicago Fire,” and “Big Love.” In between those short stints, Sears broke out as a womanizing doctor in the Showtime period drama “Masters of Sex,” as a national director of the fictional Counter Terrorist Unit in Fox’s short-lived “24: Legacy” and as the DC Comics supervillain Zoom in The CW’s “The Flash.” In 2011, he landed a recurring role in “American Horror Story: Murder House,” marking the first of four collaborations with Ryan Murphy.

Now, more than a decade later, Sears has reunited with Zachary Quinto — who played his ghost husband in that first season of “AHS” — to play lovers again in the new NBC medical drama “Brilliant Minds.” Created by Michael Grassi (“Riverdale”), the series stars Quinto as Dr.

Oliver Wolf, a modern-day version of the late British neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks. Sears plays Dr. Josh Nichols, an ex-military, gay neurosurgeon whose clinical and exacting nature is often at odds with Wolf’s more empathetic approach to treating patients.