Where You've Seen The Cast Of New Amsterdam Before

Taking place in pressure cooker environments where life and death converge with personal and professional drama, medical dramas have been a staple of primetime television for decades. The best medical dramas are more than just melodramatic Petri dishes for exploring human emotions; instead, they delve into the complexities of hospital bureaucracy and politics while exploring the ways medical professionals try to find optimism in such a challenging setting. These themes are at the heart of NBC's "New Amsterdam," which finds the inspired young Max Goodwin taking over as the director of the New Amsterdam Medical Center, one of the oldest public hospitals in the United States. Although the series often explores familiar territory, the strong central cast breathes life into the stories by inhabiting characters that most folks would feel lucky to have as their healthcare providers. Here's where you may have seen the cast of "New Amsterdam" before.

With a smile that can light up a room and a passion for helping patients, Head of Oncology Helen Sharpe is Max's touchstone time and again. Sharpe is played by a face that's instantly recognizable to fans of an entirely different Doctor — one who travels through all of space and time. Before playing Sharpe, British actor Freema Agyeman played a companion of David Tennant's Tenth Doctor on the seemingly immortal BBC series "Doctor Who," a role she reprised on the spinoff series "Torchwood." On "Doctor Who," Agyeman played medical student and later medical doctor Martha Jones, who suffers from unrequited romantic feelings for the Doctor during their travels together. She later starred in three seasons of the British adaptation of "Law & Order," "Law & Order: UK," as prosecutor Alesha Phillips. In 2013, she appeared as the ultra-hip Larissa on the CW's "Sex and the City" teen drama spinoff series "The Carrie Diaries." Agyeman revisited the world of science fiction when she joined the cast of the 2015 Netflix Wachowski Sisters' series "Sense8" as Amanita. She also played a character named Astra in Lana Wachowski's "The Matrix Resurrections" from 2021.

Jocko Sims stars as the brilliant cardiovascular surgeon Floyd Reynolds, one of the few members of his department to survive Max Goodwin's mass firing after the director first takes over the hospital. As an actor, Sims has proven himself just as committed to his work as the doctor he plays, and he has racked up an extensive filmography to show for it. Although Sims has appeared in a handful of films including "Jarhead" and "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," he has quite a few small-screen credits. Over the years, Sims has appeared as a guest star on a number of primetime dramas including "Cold Case," "The Shield," "NYPD Blue," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Grey's Anatomy," "Bones," and "Criminal Minds," just to name a handful.

Sims was cast as driver Anthony Adams on the short-lived Starz 2008 series "Crash" based on the 2004 film. A decade later, the actor played a recurring role as civil rights activist Robert Franklin in the 1960s period drama "Masters of Sex" on Showtime alongside Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen. He would go on to play Carlton Burk on the post-apocalyptic drama "The Last Ship," which imagines a world where 80% of the global population succumbs to a viral pandemic. And before taking a role in the New Amsterdam cardiac unit, Sims briefly worked on "The Resident" as the arrogant attending doctor Ben Wilmot.

Anupam Kher plays New Amsterdam's soft-spoken and kind-hearted neurologist right up until Vijay Kapoor's death offscreen from COVID-19 complications after the actor himself took a break to focus on his wife's health, according to his 2021 Twitter post. Before joining the "New Amsterdam" cast, the Indian actor racked up a simply mind-blowingly long list of film credits on the Hindi film scene, with the Indian Economic Times reporting on his 501st film role in 2016. According to the Economic Times, Kher got his start in 1984 when he played Mahesh Bhatt in the Bollywood film "Saaransh." Besides his extensive Bollywood credits, Kher has also been in a number of international and English-language films including his role as Bhamra in "Bend it Like Beckham." Kher also played Kumail's father Azmat Nanjiani in "The Big Sick" and Hemant Oberoi in "Hotel Mumbai" starring Dev Patel. Kher also appeared in a few U.S. and British television series including "ER" and "Sense8." The hard-working actor even did some voice work as the adorable Carl Fredricksen in the Hindi dub of Disney's 2009 animated film "Up."

Actor and producer Daniel Dae Kim's first film role came in 1991 when he appeared in the martial arts film "American Shaolin." Since then, he has acted in many television series beginning with a couple of appearances in "Unsolved Mysteries." Trekkies may recognize Kim from his appearance as an astronaut in a 2000 episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" and in another role for three episodes of "Star Trek: Enterprise" a few years later. In 1999, Kim played the telepathic John Matheson on the doomed "Babylon 5" spinoff "Crusade," which was canceled before the first episode aired. He went on to play the ambitious lawyer Gavin Park on 12 episodes of "Angel," and later appeared as counter terrorism agent Tom Baker on "24."

Kim's most iconic roles came along in 2004 when he began his run on "Lost," a series that found him trapped on a magical Island for six seasons as the former reluctant organized crime flunky Jin-Soo Kwon. After "Lost" ended, Kim joined the reboot of "Hawaii Five-0" as HPD Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly. And in 2017, Kim produced "The Good Doctor," a series about an autistic surgeon that Kim developed after viewing the South Korean version. He later appeared on a few episodes of the series as Jackson Han. In addition to his many television and film credits, Kim has worked as a voice actor on a number of video games and plays King Micah on the Netflix series "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power."

Although Michelle Forbes has appeared in quite a few films over the course of her career including "Escape from L.A." and "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2," she is best known for her work in television, particularly the science fiction genre. Forbes got her start on TV in the soap opera "Guiding Light" in 1987. Forbes is beloved by some fans of the "Star Trek" universe for her recurring role as Ro Laren on "Star Trek: The Next Generation," and she actually appeared as a totally different character in an earlier episode as an alien committed to forcing her father to carry out a troubling tradition. In 2002 and 2003, Forbes played the foreign policy expert and presidential advisor Lynne Kresge on "24." She went on to play the Colonial Fleet Admiral Helena Cain on "Battlestar Galactica" as well as in the film "Battlestar Galactica: Razor."

In 2008, the actor worked on a season of "True Blood" as the orgy-hosting antagonist Maryann Forrester. And in 2011, Forbes starred in the AMC crime series "The Killing," which moved over to Netflix for its final season. Forbes has also appeared briefly on numerous other TV series including "Grey's Anatomy," "Orphan Black," and "Boston Legal."

As Lauren Bloom's mother Jeanie Bloom, Gina Gershon plays a deeply flawed character who leaves her daughter with plenty of baggage. Easily one of the most famous faces in the "New Amsterdam" cast, Gershon performed in a handful of major films throughout the '90s, including the John Woo identity swap action romp "Face/Off" and Paul Verhoeven's infamously misunderstood "Showgirls." Gershon also starred in the Wachowski Sisters' breakthrough film "Bound" alongside Jennifer Tilly and Joe Pantoliano. Before her movie star heyday,   Gershon began acting in films in the 1980s, with her early roles including a small part in the John Hughes cult classic "Pretty in Pink" and as the photographer love interest of Tom Cruise's character in "Cocktail." 

Gershon had a recurring role as an assassin boss in the Crackle series "Cleaners" from 2013 through 2014, and she later played the recurring role of Fay Getty alongside Paul Reiser in the country club throwback series "Red Oaks" on Prime Video. Gershon's appearances over the years also include brief roles on comedy series like "Ellen," "Psych," "Community," and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Additionally, Gershon appeared as La Reina on "Z Nation" and played a surprisingly good Melania Trump on an episode of "The Good Fight."