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Heidi Venable

After Playing A Surgeon On Grey’s Anatomy, Jessica Capshaw Gets Candid About Why 9-1-1: Nashville Has Been A ‘Relief’

Jessica Capshaw plays Blythe on 9-1-1: Nashville.

For 10 seasons, Jessica Capshaw played pediatric surgeon Arizona Robbins on Grey’s Anatomy, where her character survived a plane crash, intense relationship drama with wife Callie Torres and countless medical emergencies involving children. Now she’s traded in the scrubs for something a little more country as part of the 9-1-1: Nashville, so how does she feel about the change of pace? Turns out she’s more than OK with it.

Jessica Capshaw is back on ABC Thursdays, just on a different show, as she plays Blythe, the wife of Chris O’Donnell’s fire captain Don Hart, on the Ryan Murphy spinoff that premiered on the 2025 TV schedule this month. While Arizona was a rock in an emergency on Grey’s Anatomy, Blythe lets her husband and son handle the first responding on 9-1-1: Nashville, and that’s just how the actress likes it. She said on The Kelly Clarkson Show:

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