Jamie-Lynn Sigler is opening up about playing TV or movie characters with multiple sclerosis, more than two decades after she was diagnosed with the disease.
The 44-year-old actor plays a doctor with the chronic illness on Thursday’s episode of the hit medical show, Grey’s Anatomy, marking the first time Sigler will portray a character with the same disease she was diagnosed with in 2002. As urologist Dr Laura Kaplan, Sigler’s character navigates her MS diagnosis, while assisting fan-favourite Dr Richard Webber (portrayed by James Pickens Jr) after it’s been revealed that he has prostate cancer.
