In its 16th season, ABC TV’s “Grey’s Anatomy” breaks new ground by introducing primetime television’s first recurring deaf physician role.
Dr. Lauren Riley, who speaks both English and American Sign Language, is an expert diagnostician who arrives at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital from University of California San Francisco (UCSF) to help crack the team’s most difficult cases. She is played by deaf Jewish actress Shoshannah Stern, who always dreamed of being on the show.
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