George O'Malley
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| George O'Malley | |
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 Dr. George O'Malley as portrayed by T. R. Knight |
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| First appearance | "A Hard Day's Night" |
| Created by | Shonda Rhimes |
| Portrayed by | T. R. Knight |
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| Occupation | Surgical Intern at Seattle Grace Hospital |
| Title | M.D. |
| Family | Louise O'Malley (mother) Harold O'Malley (father, deceased) Jerry O'Malley (brother) Ronny O'Malley (brother) |
| Spouse(s) | Dr. Callie Torres (ex-wife) |
George O'Malley is the name of a fictional character on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. The character is portrayed by actor T.R. Knight, who was nominated Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series at the 2007 Emmy Awards.
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Dr. George O'Malley was one of Meredith Grey's roommates. He had an infatuation with Meredith from his first meeting with her, and ended up having a disasterous one-night stand with her that tested the limits of their friendship.
During the beginning of his internship, he was picked by Dr. Preston Burke to perform the first surgery of all the interns. During the surgery, he choked and earned the nickname "007" (after James Bond's License to Kill). In the next season, George and Alex Karev get stuck in an elevator with a patient who has been shot. The patient begins to bleed out and when Alex freezes up, Burke has to talk George through surgery and George "flies solo" for the first time.
George starts to date a nurse named Olivia in Season 1, from whom he contracts syphilis. George later dates Dr. Callie Torres, an orthopedic surgeon at Seattle Grace, but his poor treatment of her in Season 3 causes her to pull away.
During a camping trip, he learned from Alex that Callie had slept with Dr. Mark Sloan, witnessed one of Burke's hand tremors. He confronted Cristina with his suspicions about Burke's problems after his father was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and a leaking aortic valve that would require surgery.
Concerned about Burke's current abilities as a surgeon, he contacted Dr. Erica Hahn to perform his father's valve replacement. His relationship with Callie was strained when he confronted her about her fling with Sloan, but as his father's condition deteriorated, George slowly allowed Callie to re-enter his life. George suffered a devastating loss when the difficult decision was made to take his father off life support after complications from cancer surgery left him in multi-system organ failure.
In an attempt to overcome the grief he experienced from his father's death, he secluded himself with his girlfriend and pursued a highly sexual relationship. He asks her to marry him and they eloped to Las Vegas. Callie continually insists that George favors his friends (Izzie in particular) over her, and they had a serious fight where Callie told George that Izzie has feelings for him, and ultimately kicked him out of their hotel room. George then went to Izzie, confessing that he feels he may have made a mistake in marrying Callie, and ends up having sex with Izzie.
George is torn over what to do about both Izzie and Callie. He put in for a transfer to nearby hospital Mercy-West, thinking the only way to resolve his feelings for Izzie is to be away from her. His request is granted, barring his success on the intern exam. After realizing how conflicted George is and not wanting to lose her best friend, Izzie lies to George and says that sleeping with him meant nothing and that she doesn't have feelings for him. In the finale of the show's third season, Izzie admitted to being in love with George. It was revealed that George failed his intern exams and has decided to leave the hospital.
In the first episode of season 4 of the show, George seemed to have changed his mind and went ahead with repeating his internship with Meredith as his resident. He also has a change of heart about his feelings for Izzie and tells her he loves her at the end of the episode. Later, he finally tells Callie that he had an affair with Izzie. Callie tried to forgive him and shift all the blame to Izzie, but George says she cannot forgive what he did; Callie ends up agreeing. Callie then bluntly tells the rest of the hospital about George and Izzie. He breaks up with Izzie soon after but continues to be good friends with her.
Initially, none of the interns knew that George was a repeat intern. Lexie kept his secret, and stayed by his side as a friend when all of the other interns find out about it. He moves in with her and starts accepting and living with what he has, befriending the other interns and hosting a party at their ugly apartment. In the season 4 finale, it is revealed that George failed the intern exam by only 1 point and received 14 outstanding letters of recomendation, making him and Lexie doubt his repeated intership even more. During a brief outburst at the chief, George is allowed to re-take the intern exam.
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