Grace Santiago was a character on the American television series Nip/Tuck. She was the staff psychologist for McNamara/Troy. She was portrayed by Valerie Cruz.
Dr. Grace Santiago was first introduced into the show by meeting Sean for advice for two of his potential patients, identical twins who wanted to look different to express their own individuality. She gives Sean her expert advice as a psychologist that their surgery is needed. After a shor...
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Grace Santiago was a character on the American television series Nip/Tuck. She was the staff psychologist for McNamara/Troy. She was portrayed by Valerie Cruz.
Dr. Grace Santiago was first introduced into the show by meeting Sean for advice for two of his potential patients, identical twins who wanted to look different to express their own individuality. She gives Sean her expert advice as a psychologist that their surgery is needed. After a short misunderstanding between Sean and Grace, Sean hires Grace as staff psychologist to help make better judgments on potential patients.
Grace's first patient to work with at McNamara/Troy is a manic depressive, who she denies surgery to. Grace claims that the patient is resisting drug therapy and is a bad candidate for surgery. After the doctors deny the surgery, the patient commits suicide resulting from extreme depression. This gives Grace a poor start with the doctors.
Later, after noticing Christian's high sexual activity, she refers him to...
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