Trevor Jackson Joins 'Grey's Anatomy'

Trevor Jackson, known for his role as Aaron Jackson on Grown-ish (the ABC/Disney/Freeform comedy spin-off of Black-ish) has been cast in Grey’s Anatomy. His character will make his debut on May 8th (the penultimate episode) with the role potentially becoming permanent when ABC officially renews the medical drama for an incredible season 22. 

The word on the street is that this new mystery role was sought after by many young actors and Jackson won the role. He and Disney have a long standing relationship as Jackson got his start in theatre and Broadway playing Young Simba. He also starred alongside Regina King in Season 2 of John Ridley’s ABC anthology series American Crime.

Grey’s Anatomy has had a crazy season 21 so far. Finally returning after that long winter hiatus, the surgical interns at Grey’s Sloan lost one of their own when Mika Yusada decided to quit the program after her sister died from a car accident. The accident was Yusada’s fault as she was so overworked and tired from caring for her sister, she had not been sleeping. She got behind the wheel of a car extremely sleep deprived and fell asleep at the wheel causing the accident. Yusada attempted to return to work after taking little time off but the work proved to be too much for her and she left the program and potential love interest and fellow surgical intern Jules. 

This leaves an open spot and it appears that Jackson’s character may fill the role perfectly. I also suspect he may cause some drama between Simone and Lucas who appear to be in rocky waters since Simone snagged her first solo surgery who just also happened to be Lucas’ patient. Lucas is also feeling a little left out having to repeat his year. 

The drama does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. 

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