EXCLUSIVE: Dick Wolf’s NBC medical drama Chicago Med has secured the bulk of its original cast. S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, Nick Gehlfuss, Brian Tee and Marlyne Barrett have all closed new multi-year deals to continue on the popular Chicago Fire spinoff series from Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television.The initial contracts of the original Chicago Med cast expired at the end of the most recent sixth season.
As Deadline reported, two of the actors, Yaya DaCosta and Torrey DeVitt, exited at the end of the season when their characters’ stories were wrapped up, while the remaining five cast members had been negotiating new pacts. (DaCosta was quickly cast as the lead of the new Fox drama series Our Kind Of People.)Chicago Med,
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