Grey’s Anatomy Season 23 Adds Sarah Levy, Martin Martinez & Trevor Tordjman

Grey Sloan Memorial is getting some new faces. Just weeks before Grey’s Anatomy returns for its staggering 23rd season, ABC has confirmed three new guest stars joining the long-running medical drama: Schitt’s Creek standout Sarah Levy, Never Have I Ever‘s Martin Martinez, and Trevor Tordjman — the Disney Channel triple-threat who’s been working the ZOMBIES beat for years. The news broke via Variety and was quickly picked up across the entertainment press.

Here’s the thing about this show: it doesn’t do slow. Even after more than two decades on the air, Grey’s Anatomy still cycles doctors, patients, and heartbreaks through those hospital doors at a pace most shows couldn’t survive — and apparently has no plans to stop. Season 23 premieres Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC, streaming the next day on Hulu. And by the sound of the new character descriptions, this season’s batch of patients is going to give the surgeons plenty to do.

Who’s Playing Who at Grey Sloan Memorial

The new additions were announced in guest-starring roles, which — for anyone who’s watched this show for any length of time — means everything from “shows up for one gut-punch of an episode” to “sticks around just long enough to make you cry.” Here’s what we know about each character, per the official descriptions reported by Variety:

Sarah Levy plays Corrie, described as “witty and a bit of an oddball.” Corrie is very pregnant and, per the description, “has a lot of anxiety about giving birth to her second child after the traumatic experience she had with her first child.” If you’re already bracing for an emotional labor-and-delivery episode, same. This show has a gift — some might say a cruel one — for turning childbirth into appointment television, and Corrie’s storyline sounds tailor-made for it.

Martin Martinez plays Charlie, a character who “has had a rough upbringing and as a result of the trauma he’s experienced, he has a tough exterior and struggles to trust other people.” Translation: he’s the patient who’ll clash with a surgeon for forty minutes before someone finally gets through to him. Classic Grey’s. The best episodes of this show have always paired difficult patients with doctors carrying their own baggage, and Charlie fits the mold perfectly.

Trevor Tordjman plays Thomas, who might be the most charming of the three — he’s “the fun loving and charming boy next door who doesn’t realize he is as cute as he is.” Thomas is at the hospital “to help ensure his brother’s girlfriend is okay,” which sounds innocent enough, but on Grey’s Anatomy, being at the hospital for someone else’s emergency has a way of turning into your own. Watch this space.

Where You’ve Seen These Three Before

The most recognizable name in the bunch is undoubtedly Sarah Levy, and for good reason. She’s best known as Twyla Sands — the deadpan, unflappable waitress of the Café Tropical — on Schitt’s Creek, the beloved CBC comedy created by and starring her father and brother, Eugene and Dan Levy. If Twyla’s oddball charm is any indication, Corrie is going to be a scene-stealer.

But Levy’s been busy since Rosebud Motel checked out its last guests. She’s starred in SurrealEstate (the Syfy/Hulu supernatural drama), appeared in Osgood Perkins’ horror film The Monkey, and has two films on the horizon: Run and Sidelined 3. She’s carved out a lane that mixes comedy, horror, and drama without getting boxed into any one of them — which honestly might be the smartest career play in the Levy family playbook. Sorry, Dan, but it’s true.

Martin Martinez will be familiar to Netflix viewers as one of the young faces of Never Have I Ever, Mindy Kaling’s coming-of-age hit, and he’s also turned up on Magnum P.I. and Amazon’s Primo. He tends to play the guy with something going on under the surface, which makes Charlie feel like a glove-fit.

And Trevor Tordjman? If you have kids — or were a kid in the 2010s — you already know him. The Canadian actor-dancer broke out as Noah on The Next Step, then became Disney Channel royalty as Bucky Buchanan in both Bunk’d and the ZOMBIES film franchise. More recently, he’s appeared on Apple TV+’s The Studio and HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls. Moving from Disney charm to a hospital bed at Grey Sloan is a leap, but it’s exactly the kind of transition that turns child stars into adult actors.

A Season of Big Goodbyes (and Fresh Blood)

Here’s the context that makes these casting announcements hit harder: Season 23 is shaping up as a genuine changing of the guard. The Season 22 finale saw the departures of series regulars Kevin McKidd and Kim Raver — a.k.a. Owen Hunt and Teddy Altman — after years as cornerstones of the show.

Think about what that means. McKidd has played trauma surgeon Owen Hunt since Season 5 — that’s nearly two decades of commanding operating rooms, running the hospital’s trauma program, and weathering some of the most chaotic storylines in the show’s history. Raver first arrived as cardiothoracic surgeon Teddy Altman back in Season 6 and has been a series regular since Season 15. These aren’t just cast members leaving; these are two of the load-bearing walls of the modern Grey’s era. Their exits, reportedly addressed by showrunner Meg Marinis in a Variety interview about the finale, close a chapter in a very real way.

And it’s not just farewells. Earlier this month, James Wolk was announced as another new addition to the Season 23 cast. So the pattern is clear: as veteran surgeons cycle out, the show is reloading with new energy — a mix of established names, rising stars, and (apparently) the oddball pregnant patient who’ll probably make us all ugly-cry.

Honestly? This is the trick Grey’s Anatomy has been pulling off for twenty-plus years. People said the show couldn’t survive losing its original interns. Then they said it couldn’t survive without the McDreamy era. Then the exits kept coming and the show kept going. There’s an argument to be made that the constant turnover isn’t a bug — it’s the whole engine. Every few seasons, Grey Sloan gets new blood, the fans panic, and then they fall in love all over again.

What Season 23 Looks Like — and What’s Next

So what do we actually know about the season ahead? The premiere lands Thursday, October 15, 2026, in the show’s familiar 10 p.m. ET slot, with next-day streaming on Hulu (and Hulu on Disney+). Beyond the casting news, details remain tightly under wraps — this is Grey’s, after all, a show that treats its plot twists like state secrets.

What we do know is the bigger picture. Grey’s Anatomy premiered on ABC in March 2005, created by Shonda Rhimes, and it remains the longest-running scripted primetime series currently on air — as well as the longest-running medical drama in American television history. That’s not a record anyone’s going to touch anytime soon. In an era where shows get axed after two seasons and a cliffhanger, there’s something almost defiant about a series heading into its 23rd year with genuine momentum.

And the franchise may be about to get even bigger. Earlier this year, reports emerged that a new Grey’s Anatomy spinoff is in development, this one set in Texas. The original show already spun off Private Practice and Station 19, so a third branch of the Shondaland medical universe wouldn’t be shocking — but it does suggest the powers that be see plenty of life left in this world.

For now, though, all eyes are on October 15. New patients, new drama, a few familiar faces settling into life after Grey Sloan — and three new guest stars stepping into the most storied hospital on television. If Corrie’s delivery goes sideways (and let’s be real, it will), if Charlie lets someone in, if Thomas turns out to be more than the charming bystander — well. That’s Grey’s Anatomy. Twenty-three seasons in, it still knows exactly how to hook you.

Source: Just Jared