Character sheet for Private Practice and Grey's Anatomy characters who worked at Seaside Health and Wellness.
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Addison Montgomery
Dr. Addison Forbes Montgomery Shepherd (Portrayed by Kate Walsh)
Appeared in Grey's Anatomy (S1-8); Private Practice (S1-6)
"I perform life-saving surgeries on babies in the womb. I can certainly fix my own sink, and the handyman was backed up for three days."
See the Grey's Anatomy Former Main Characters for her character page.
Naomi Bennett
Dr. Naomi Bennett (Portrayed by Audra McDonald)
Appeared in Private Practice (S1-4, S6); Grey's Anatomy (S3, S5)
An OB/GYN and reproductive and endocrinologist specialist, she has an on-off relationship with Sam. One of Addison's best friends, and a majority owner of the practice. Previously portrayed by Merrin Dungey, for the Backdoor Pilot.
- Amicable Exes: With Sam, the two are still good friends and co-managers/owners of Oceanside Wellness. So much so the two reconcile their marriage by the end of the series.
- Best Friend: She and Addison have been best friends since medical school.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's a kind woman, but don't make her angry.
- Nice Girl: One of the nicest characters in the cast, though she shows moments where she can let her anger get the better of her.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When she learns Maya is pregnant, the normally laidback Naomi is furious and unrecognizable. She goes as far as slapping her own daughter in the face and yells at Addison to give her an abortion.
- Parental Substitute: To Betsy, whom she adopts after her other adoptive family abandons her.
- Working with the Ex: She works alongside her ex-husband Sam at the practice.
Sam Bennett
Dr. Samuel "Sam" Bennett (Portrayed by Taye Diggs)
Appeared in Grey's Anatomy (S3, S5); Private Practice (S1-6)
One of Addison's best friends from college and her next door neighbor in LA, he married Naomi twice. He is a certified cardiothoracic surgeon but pursued a career in Internal Medicine. He has asthma and was hospitalized at Seattle Grace after an attack.
- Amicable Exes: With Naomi, the two are still good friends and co-managers/owners of Oceanside Wellness. So much so the two reconcile their marriage by the end of the series.
- Papa Wolf: Over Maya. When he learned her boyfriend got her pregnant, he drove to the basketball court he was playing and angrily confronts him.
- Working with the Ex: He works alongside his ex-wife Naomi at the practice.
Violet Turner
Dr. Violet Turner (Portrayed by Amy Brenneman)
Appeared in Grey's Anatomy (S3); Private Practice (S1-6)
Violet is a psychiatrist working largely with the pregnant women coming through the practice as this is its specialty. She has a son with Pete, but he was born through traumatic c-section and delivered by a patient having a schizophrenic delusion after she attacked and paralyzed Violet. After this Violet went into post-partum depression but eventually recovers and reconciles with Pete and Lucas.
- Alone with the Psycho: Her schizophrenic patient Katie drugs her and rips her baby out of her body. But before that, Violet begs her not to do it and tells her where to cut her belly so she doesn't kill her baby. Yikes...
- Commonality Connection: She first bonded with Sheldon due to their shared profession.
- Experimented in College She claims she had a brief romance with a female teacher during college.
- Missing Mom: For a moment, she gives Lucas to Pete's care and is too distraught by her experience with Katie to even look at her son. She eventually subverts this thanks to seeing another psychiatrist and decides to embrace her role as Lucas' mother.
- Nice Girl: Probably the nicest of the cast. She's even surprisingly forgiving towards the crazy girl who cut her baby out of her, a she realizes said girl is completely insane.
- Platonic Life-Partners: She has an extremely close platonic relationship with Cooper. They're often each other's confidants and help each other out when they have relationship troubles. They even have a yearly tradition where they take a holiday to travel together. When she became pregnant, she became very dependent on him, and basically treated him like a husband.
- Rape as Backstory: Violet said she was raped in her college years and her best friend helped her through it.
- The Shrink: She's one of the psychiatrists working on the practice, alongside Sheldon.
- Sucks at Dancing: She's a terrible dancer, but thinks otherwise.
Charlotte King
Dr. Charlotte King (Portrayed by KaDee Strickland)
Appeared in Private Practice (S1-6)
Charlotte is the Chief of Staff at St. Ambrose Hospital, and an attending who visits at the various private practices even though she despises private practices. She is a urologist and sexologist, showing a contrast to her rough Southern girl upbringing. After discovering her husband cheating on her, the other woman attacked her and she became addicted to pain medication for a period, at one point causing a terrible crash — this makes her further unsympathetic, but she is developed from her antagonist role after joining the private practice. She is married to Cooper, with whom she has three daughters. Though she considered naming a daughter after her old horse, Marjorie, she instead went with Southern States for Georgia and Caroline, and the traditional Rachel.
- Amicable Exes:
- After years of resenting her ex-husband Billy, she buries the hatchet with him when she meets him years later, and he apologizes for his affair.
- She remains friends with Sheldon after using him as a rebound during a break-up with Cooper.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: She and Cooper often fight and trade barks, which only seems to raise their sexual tension. This evolves into Slap-Slap-Kiss when they start dating.Charlotte: Sex is best when you feel you want to kill the other person.
- Broken Bird: After being raped in her office.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: She becomes jealous of Cooper's close friendship with Violet during the time he moves in with her while Violet is pregnant, especially since Cooper basically acts like Violet's husband.
- Daddy's Girl: She had was close of her father "Big Daddy", and his death broke her.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Starts off as a Dr. Jerk and a Jerkass, but her relationship with Cooper has her mellow out and she becomes more of a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- Dr. Jerk: She's the chief off staff of St-Ambrose, but she's one despicable bitch, often serving as a Foil to the other doctors by opposing them whever they tried unorthodox methods to help patients. Thanks to Character Development, she slowly subverts this trope.
- Freudian Excuse:
- She had a drug addict mother and an authoritarian father growing up, but ended up being his favorite child due to her competence and stepping up and helping to raise her younger brothers. This caused them to become close, but also is the root cause of her perfectionist and Ice Queen tendencies. She once confessed she has trouble connecting with others because signs of affection were discouraged in her family.
- Her reluctance to start a real relationship stems from her failed first marriage when she caught her husband cheating on her with another woman.
- Functional Addict: She's a narcotic addict for most of the series.
- Good Stepmother: Towards Cooper's son Mason, she treats him very well, and grows to love him as her own, especially after his mother Erica passes away. Mason eventually asks if he can call her Mama, which she, with tears in her eyes, agrees he can.
- Happily Married: She has a good and stable marriage with Cooper after their initially rocky relationship.
- High-Powered Career Woman: She's very dedicated to her career and has no desire to become a housewife or even have children. Ironically, she does suddenly become a Good Stepmother and ends up pregnant with triplets after marrying Cooper, though she still refused to be a stay-at-home wife.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Starts out as a flat-out Jerkass, but as the series go on Charlotte is shown to be not as bad as she seems, and she really takes her job seriously and cares about her patients.
- Kick the Dog: slept with archer solely to spite him
- Lady Killer In Love: She was The Casanova who enjoyed quick feelings-less sexual encounters in the past, but ends up falling in love with Cooper and marrying him.
- Ms. Fanservice: She has several sex scenes with Cooper throughout the series that show a lot of skin, though it's always restricted by Modesty Bedsheets or Toplessness from the Back.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: In her early characterization, she was often obstructive to her colleagues whenever they wanted to try something unorthodox, and she was often proven wrong in the end. But as she mellowed out, she became more of a Reasonable Authority Figure.
- Parental Substitute: She ends up as Mason's second maternal figure after the death of his mother.
- Pitbull Dates Puppy: He's the friendly jovial puppy to Charlotte's bossy and arrogant pitbull.
- Promoted to Parent: She became a mother figure to her brothers since their mother was a drug addict.
- Rape as Drama: A crazy patient follows her to her office and violently beats and rapes her there.
- Really Gets Around: Before meeting Cooper. Even then, they were only Friends with Benefits.
- Sex Goddess: She considers herself to be one, and Cooper at least seems to agree as he says he enjoys how "bossy" she is in bed. Their sex is often shown to be extremely passionate and lasts for hours.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Starts to genuinely fall in love with the kind and fatherly Cooper and ends up marrying him.
- Southern-Fried Genius: She's a successful career doctor from the Deep South.
- Stereotype Flip: Despite being from the South she's a pretty big jerk.
- Took a Level in Kindness: She was a pretty big bitch in the first season, but starts mellowing around Season 3. Dating Cooper also helps.
Cooper Freedman
Dr. Cooper Freedman (Portrayed by Paul Adelstein)
Appeared in Grey's Anatomy (S3); Private Practice (S1-6)
A pediatrician and Charlotte's Love Interest and eventual husband.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension: He and Charlotte often fight and trade barks, which only seems to raise their sexual tension. This evolves into Slap-Slap-Kiss when they start dating.Charlotte: Sex is best when you feel you want to kill the other person.
- Berserk Button: After Charlotte's rape, when one of his young patients tell him he doesn't want to be touched anymore, Cooper then proceeds to beat the living shit out of the kid's father, thinking he was the one molesting him (when actually it was his mother).
- Better as Friends: In season 1, he and Violet attempted to have a Friends with Benefits arrangement, but when the time came for them to have sex he ultimately found it too uncomfortable and backed down. She was miffed at first, but eventually forgave him and they remained Platonic Life-Partners.
- Crazy Jealous Guy: He physically fought with Sheldon over Charlotte due to knowing they were sleeping together. And it was when they were broken up.
- Friend to All Children: Due to being a pediatrician, Cooper loves children and often has good relationships with them. He one day wishes to have some of his own, which is a point of conflict he has with his Love Interest Charlotte, who isn't interested. Needless to say, when he finds out about his son Mason and Charlotte becomes pregnant with triplets, he's overjoyed.
- Happily Adopted: He was adopted as a child and loved his parents so much he never felt any desire to sought out his biological parents.
- Happily Married: He has a good and stable marriage with Charlotte after their initially rocky relationship.
- Replacement Goldfish: Despite being Happily Adopted, when he once discovered his adopted parents had a real son who died, he got depressed and began to believe he got adopted as a replacement. While he eventually got over it, he still has a deep fear of being someone's second choice which often translate him being a Insecure Love Interest.
- Papa Wolf: Over his kid patients, and eventually his biological son Mason.
- Pitbull Dates Puppy: He's the friendly jovial puppy to Charlotte's bossy and arrogant pitbull.
- Platonic Life-Partners: He has an extremely close platonic relationship with Violet. They're often each other's confidants and help each other out when they have relationship troubles. They even have a yearly tradition where they take a holiday to travel together. When she became pregnant, she became very dependant on him, and basically treated him like a husband.
- Sleeping with the Boss: His main Love Interest and eventual wife is his boss, Charlotte.
- Understanding Boyfriend: After Charlotte's rape, Cooper supports her emotionally through the whole thing, even if he sometimes let his emotions and protectiveness get the better of him.
- Unrequited Love: He was in love with Violet, but she only viewed him as her Best Friend, and eventually he fell in love with Charlotte.
- Unstoppable Rage: When one of his patients tell him he's getting fat to protect himself from being molested, Cooper snaps and beats up the kid's dad. Unfortunately for Cooper, it was not the father the culprit: it was the mother.
Sheldon Wallace
Dr. Sheldon Wallace (Portrayed by Brian Benben)
Appeared in Private Practice (S2-6)
Sheldon was a psychiatrist at the private practice but quit when he got cancer. He had previously worked at a veteran hospital during an Iraq war, and is a friend of Amelia Shepherd despite her being romantically interested in him and his ignoring her during the death of her baby.
- Alone with the Psycho: Well, he is a shrink, so it's justified. Doesn't make the scenes less chilling to watch.
- Amicable Exes: He eventually renews his friendship with both Violet and Charlotte after getting turned down by both.
- Bigger Is Better in Bed: According to Violet and Charlotte, he's very well endowed and he knows how to use it. Amelia even tries hitting on him when she learns this.
- Commonality Connection:
- He first bonded with Violet due to their shared profession.
- He and his season 6 Love Interest Miranda begin a relationship based on both of them dealing with having terminal cancer.
- The Confidant: As a psychiatrist, he's obviously this to his patients, but also ends up being the one other characters seek out to confide their personal problems to.
- Gag Penis: The fact he has an abnormally large "package" is something of a Running Gag. Most of his Love Interests in particular are quite pleased about it.
- Nice Guy: He's a good man with an empathetic nature, which is a big part of why he's a great psychiatrist.
- Odd Friendship He and Amelia become good friends in season 4, despite the age gap and having very little in common.
- Romantic Runner-Up: He's very unlucky in his love life, and ends up being on the losing side of a Love Triangle twice. In season 2, when Violets picks Pete over him and in season 3, Charlotte ends up going back to Cooper. When Amelia hits on him on season 4, he turns her turn, partly because dating co-workers never works out for him.
- Sex God: Most of his Love Interest comment on him being great in bed, in part due to being so "gifted". It's Subverted at first with his relationship with Violet, when his state of mind made him unable to perform.
- The Shrink: Along with Violet, he's a psychiatrist at the private practice.
Jake Reilly
Dr. Jacob "Jake" Reilly (Portrayed by Benjamin Bratt)
Appeared in Private Practice (S4-6)
Addison's husband, that she marries at the end of Private Practice. He replaced Naomi as endocrinologist at the practice when she left LA.
- Awful Wedded Life: With his first wife, Lily, who was a drug addict. He would often spend time at work or at his office to avoid dealing with her addiction, until she eventually died of an overdose.
- Promoted to Parent: He had to raise three younger sisters. when his mother died when he was 18 years old. His dad had walked out on them years ago. He also ended up adopting his wife's daughter Angela, when Lily passed away from a drug overdose.
Dell Parker
RN William Dell Parker (Portrayed by Chris Lowell)
Appeared in Grey's Anatomy (S3); Private Practice (S1-3)
Dell was a young nurse and midwife, who worked at the private practice and briefly at St. Ambrose. He had a tumultuous upbringing, being addicted to heroin and getting his girlfriend, Heather, pregnant at 17. They formed a loving family for their daughter, but Heather still struggled with drug issues. One night she was trying to cook meth and blew up their house, burning the baby. She and Dell fought, and Dell took their daughter away, but regretted this when Heather then died. He shadowed his friends at the practice to aid him in his pursuit of becoming a doctor whilst he worked as a receptionist, being accepted to medical school at UCLA but dying before he could start after he was involved in a car crash and the doctors didn't get a head CT to check the bleeding. His daughter was adopted to Naomi when she left for New York.
- Dark and Troubled Past: His parents were abusive and he grew up with his grandparents, and had suffered from addiction. He was able to kick the habit, but his daughter Betsy's mother Heather wasn't.
- Disappeared Dad: He dies on the operation table during a surgery following a car crash, leaving his daughter Betsy orphaned.
- Mr. Fanservice: His introduction in the pilot is walking shirtless in slow-motion.
- Papa Wolf: Towards his daughter Betsy, and all children, due to his abusive upbringing. He recognized one of Cooper's patience as an abuse survivor, and he instinctively jumped upon Violet's court-appointed pedophile the moment he saw him talking with Naomi and Sam's daughter Maya.
- Unrequited Love: He was in love with Naomi, and though she was attracted to him, she in turn found him too young to consider anything serious. She did treat him very affectionately from then on, and when Dell died, she took in his daughter Betsy.
Pete Wilder
Dr. Peter Wilder (Portrayed by Tim Daly)
Appeared in Grey's Anatomy (S3); Private Practice (S1-5)
Pete worked in critical care and alternative medicine, and an infectious disease specialist. He suffered from heart problems and on the day of his court trial for medical malpractice — he took a patient who wanted to die off life support even though they couldn't legally consent — he went for a jog and suffered a fatal heart attack. Violet went to him even though they had been consistently having relationship issues.
- Disappeared Dad: Unfortunately becomes this to Lucas when he has a heart attack on a job and dies alone.
- Dr Feel Good: Not as extreme as most examples, but Pete does recommend marijuana as medicine for some of his patients.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Towards the end of his tumultuous marriage with Violet, Pete was being a major dick to her even if Violet was trying her best to keep their marriage from crumbling and be a good mother to Lucas.
Amelia Shepherd
Dr. Amelia Shepherd (Portrayed by Caterina Scorsone)
Appears in Private Practice (S3-6); Grey's Anatomy (S7, S8, S10-present)
"I'm being a superhero. [...] There's a scientific study that shows that if you stand like this, in superhero pose, for just five minutes before a job interview or a big presentation or a really hard task, you will not only feel more confident, you will perform measurably better."
See the Grey's Anatomy for her character page.
