Characters
Jackie Peyton
EDIE FALCO Actor Bio
Nurse Jackie Peyton is far from ordinary. As an ER nurse, she navigates the rough waters of a crumbling healthcare system, doing everything she can to provide her patients with the best care possible. Whether she’s lighting into a smug doctor for failing to heed her advice, or stealing a fat money clip from a man who stabbed a prostitute and giving it to a pregnant widow, or forging the organ donor card of a man who just died, Jackie Peyton is compelled to make sense of the chaos and to level the playing field whenever she can. Right or wrong, it’s Jackie’s brand of justice all made that more manageable by a daily diet of prescription pain medication.
Dr. Eleanor O'Hara
EVE BEST Actor Bio
Her best and most unlikely friendship, however, is with the hilariously droll Brit, Dr. Eleanor O'Hara. O'Hara's disdain for stupidity is matched only by her respect and affection for Jackie. They share the same sense of humor, and they are both the kind of people who are intensely good, but intensely unsentimental.
Dr. Fitch Cooper
PETER FACINELLI Actor Bio
Throwing a wrench in the machine is the young, seemingly perfect, Dr. Fitch "Coop" Cooper who typifies the smug, Ivy League doctors who have trolled the hospital halls for decades on their way to the golf course, leaving the nurses to deal with the repercussions of their drive-by diagnoses. He has these manic highs and lows. When he gets nervous he acts out with inappropriate sexual touching.
Eddie Walzer
PAUL SCHULZE Actor Bio
Eddie Walzer is the hospital pharmacist who showers Jackie with love and the painkiller Percocet. Eddie is sleeping with Jackie in the pharmacy from time to time.
Mo-Mo
HAAZ SLEIMAN Actor Bio
Fellow nurse, Mohammed "Mo-mo" de la Cruz is Jackie's street-smart confidante with a biting sense of "gallows" humor. He understands the trenches better than anyone. He has her back - they have the best sort of friendship...they don't judge one another, they're always there for each other, and they almost finish each other's sentences.
Zoey Barkow
MERRITT WEVER Actor Bio
Watching and learning from Jackie's every move is Zoey Barkow, an impressionable, exuberant, first-year nursing student whose enthusiasm for nursing has yet to be dampened by the grind of cranky patients and a flawed healthcare system. Zoey is brand spanking new and everything is really exciting…getting through the smallest procedure is a very big deal, but she sees that nursing is difficult and sometimes thinks she doesn't have the backbone or isn't good enough.
