Sharif Atkins Joins Regular Cast
Posted: January 9, 2002 @ 3:44 PM C
Source: NBCMV.com
There’s a new doctor in the house at NBC’s “ER” as newcomer
Sharif (pronounced “sha-REEF”) Atkins will join the regular cast in
his current role as Michael Gallant, a sympathetic, idealistic and
promising third-year medical student who’s finding his way amid the
chaos of the emergency room.
Atkins was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Chicago. He later
obtained his bachelor of science degree in speech at Northwestern
University in 1997. After graduation, he remained in Chicago and worked
in small stage productions, guest-starred in brief roles on such series
as “Early Edition,” “That’s Life” and “The District,” and
appeared in the feature film “Light It Up.”
Atkins got his first big break after he came to Los Angeles. He found
an agent and was soon cast in “The Big Time,” a two-hour pilot for
“ER” executive producer John Wells. Sufficiently impressed with the
young actor, Wells offered him the new role of Gallant - a promising
medical student who is attending medical school courtesy of the U.S.
Army -- over an arc of episodes early in the 2001-02 season.
Now in its eighth season, “ER” stars Anthony Edwards (“Top
Gun”), Noah Wyle (“Myth of Fingerprints”), Laura Innes (“Deep
Impact”), Alex Kingston (“Moll Flanders”), Goran Visnjic
(“Welcome to Sarajevo”), Maura Tierney (“NewsRadio”), Paul
McCrane (“Fame”), Ming-Na (“Mulan”) and Sherry Stringfield (“NYPD
Blue”).
Michael Crichton, John Wells and Jack Orman are the executive
producers. “ER” is a production of Constant c Productions and Amblin
Television in association with Warner Bros. Television.
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