Yaya DaCosta starred as April Sexton, a nurse at Gaffney’s emergency department, from Season 1 to 8 of Chicago Med. She left as a series regular in Season 6 after being offered the lead role in FOX’s drama Our Kind of People. The show was canceled after one season in May 2022.
“My exit from Chicago Med and the arrival of this show happened really simultaneously. There isn’t much to say about it. There was a window opening and a question mark as to whether I should stay or go,” she told the Television Critics Association panel in 2021. “And in that window, I fell in love with Our Kind of People and I jumped at the opportunity to work with Lee Daniels again. I first worked with him years ago on The Butler.”
Colin Donnell starred as Dr. Connor Rhodes, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Gaffney, from Seasons 1 to 5 of Chicago Med. His character resigned following the murder of his father, Cornelius Rhodes, and the suicide of his ex-girlfriend, Ava Bekker. “Sorry to say that this is true. I love my #ChicagoMed #OneChicago family dearly. And a special thank you to all the fans that have made these last four seasons so amazing,” Donnell tweeted when his exit was announced by NBC.
Since the actor left Chicago Med, he’s portrayed Mack in the crime drama Irreverent, Tommy Merlyn in The CW’s Arrow, and appeared in the Hallmark films To Catch a Spy and Love on Iceland. Donnell also returned to Broadway in 2023. He starred in the play, The Shark Is Broken, from August 2023 to November 2023. The play told the behind-the-scenes story of the drama that impacted the production of the 1975 movie Jaws. “Opening this play on Broadway is a dream come true,” he wrote on Instagram.
Norma Kuhling portrayed Dr. Ava Bekker, a trauma surgeon at Gaffney’s emergency department, from Seasons 3 to 5 of Chicago Med. She left in Season 5 after her character committed suicide after murdering Connor Rhodes’ father. “Thank you Chicago Med for two amazing years! Really going to miss this family, but feeling nothing but gratitude,” Kuhling captioned an Instagram post after her last episode.
According to her IMDb page, Kuhling has since starred in two short films, Lullaby to Love (2020) and Death Valley (2021). She returned to primetime TV in 2021 after landing the role as Nora Fowler, a tactical medic, on the CBS’s cop drama S.W.A.T.
Rachel DiPillo (Sarah Reese)
Rachel DiPillo starred as Dr. Sarah Reese, a fourth-year medical student at Gaffney’s emergency department from Seasons 1 to 3 of Chicago Med. She left the show in Season 4 after she transferred from Gaffney to Baylor when her mentor, Dr. Daniel Charles, found out her father was a suspected serial killer.
DiPillo has kept a low profile since her exit from Chicago Med in 2017 and hasn’t appeared in any new acting projects. Based on her LinkedIn page, the actress is now an artist living in Beverly Hills, California.