Elizabeth Corday, MBChB, FRCS is a fictional trauma surgeon on the television series ER. She was played by Alex Kingston and appeared from 1997 to 2004.
Elizabeth Corday is a British surgeon, who moved to Chicago to gain more experience in trauma surgery, arriving in season four. We learn in her first episode that she comes from a whole family of surgeons, and later on we learn that her father is in fact a top surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital, Lon...
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Elizabeth Corday, MBChB, FRCS is a fictional trauma surgeon on the television series ER. She was played by Alex Kingston and appeared from 1997 to 2004.
Elizabeth Corday is a British surgeon, who moved to Chicago to gain more experience in trauma surgery, arriving in season four. We learn in her first episode that she comes from a whole family of surgeons, and later on we learn that her father is in fact a top surgeon at St. Thomas' Hospital, London. Corday relates in Ambush that her grandfather was a surgeon as was her father and, since there were no boys in her family, she took over that role. Corday's mother (played by Judy Parfitt) is an astrophysicist with whom she has a rather rocky relationship. Corday feels that her mother didn't spend enough time with her as a girl, she feels that she was "raised by nannies and boarding schools", although she finds a more nuanced perspective on things once she becomes a mother herself. Though the two do seem to come to some kind of mutual...
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