The Big Picture These three members of Chicago’s most skilled medical team aren’t stepping away from their duties any time soon. As long-running NBC drama Chicago Med approaches an anticipated Season 10, original cast members S. Epatha Merkerson, Oliver Platt, and Marlyne Barrett have all officially extended their contracts with the series, confirming the return of all of their characters.
Merkerson currently portrays Sharon Goodwin, a previous OR nurse and the current chief administrator of Gaffney Chicago Medical Center. Platt and Barrett respectively play Dr. Daniel Charles, chief of the center’s psychiatry department, and Maggie Lockwood, the charge nurse of the center’s Emergency Department.
Season 10 will presumably continue to deal with the fallout of Sharon Goodwin’s ex-husband’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, as well as with Maggie Lockwood’s divorce from Ben Campbell. While cast and crew shakeups have perhaps left the future of Chicago Med a little more obscure than usual, it seems fairly certain that the characters on this popular drama will continue doing what they do best — serving the city of Chicago, one patient at a time.