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Meredith Grey

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Meredith Grey is a character in the TV series Grey's Anatomy (2005), played by Ellen Pompeo.

8 Interesting Facts About Meredith Grey

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#001
In "Into You Like a Train," Meredith is the only one on her team who stays with the patient left to die, seeing herself in the abandoned man.
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#002
Dr. Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) was the first person to call Dr. Mark Sloan (Eric Dane) "McSteamy." She was not, however, the first character on the show to say "McSteamy" at all: Nurse Tyler (Moe Irvin) used it before her, apparently having misheard "McDreamy."
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#003
Meredith sleeps in a Dartmouth t-shirt, and Izzie says during an argument that Meredith went to Dartmouth.
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#004
Meredith and Derek's relationship starts in the first episode: Derek meets her at Joe's Bar the night before her first day as an intern, they sleep together, and she kicks him out, only to learn that morning that he is head of neurosurgery at SGH.
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#005
After the bomb incident, in the season two episode "As We Know It," Izzie and Cristina shower with Meredith to wash the blood and bomb residue off her.
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#006
In that season five storyline, Meredith shows deep compassion for a death-row inmate patient, which Derek Shepherd dislikes.
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#007
Meredith's partial liver donation to her father, Thatcher, kept her in a hospital bed for several episodes, since Ellen Pompeo was pregnant at the time.
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#008
Meredith hesitated to help her father, Thatcher, with a liver transplant because he had abandoned her and her mother, but she eventually donated part of her liver; Lexie wanted to donate but was not a viable match.
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