Karla Souza Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images Logo text ABC‘s Texas-set Grey’s Anatomy spinoff has found its lead actress.
Karla Souza will star in the forthcoming series as a doctor who heads a medical center in a small West Texas town. The spinoff is slated to begin filming in early 2027 and will be part of ABC’s 2027-28 lineup; that’s a change from the network’s initial goal to have it on the air this season.
Souza will play Carolina “Lina” Hall, who’s described as a “haunted and cynical” doctor at the helm of the medical center. It’s a return to ABC and Grey’s Anatomy producer Shondaland for Souza, who previously starred in How to Get Away With Murder.
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ABC picked up the currently untitled spinoff with a straight-to-series order in May. Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes and current showrunner Meg Maranis — a Texas native — are co-creators and writers of the first episode. The show’s logline describes the medical center at the heart of the show as “the last chance for care before miles of nowhere.”
“We’re digging into the actual communities and true stories of what happens out in rural West Texas,” Marinis told The Hollywood Reporter in October. “There’s so much going on there that I haven’t seen on TV. I’m thrilled to be able to dive into that world. It’s so different from Grey’s. It’s related to Grey’s, but its stories are going to be different.”
Rhimes and Marinis are executive producing the spinoff with Shondaland’s Betsy Beers and Grey’s star Ellen Pompeo.
In addition to How to Get Away With Murder, Souza’s credits include Prime Video’s 56 Days and Dive — she won an International Emmy Award for her performance in the latter — and ABC’s comedy Home Economics. She is repped by Gersh, Untitled and Gang Tyre.
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