[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Chicago Med Season 8, Episode 6, “Mamma Said There Would Be Days Like This.”]
Asjha Cooper is hanging up her white coat, because the actress who performs Vanessa Taylor on NBC’s Chicago Med is leaving the favored medical drama.
According to Variety, Wednesday’s (November 2) episode marked Cooper’s ultimate look on the present. In the episode, Vanessa instructed her delivery mom, Maggie (Marlyne Barrett), that she had chosen to go away her job as a physician on the Gaffney Chicago Medical Center for a possibility to journey to the Philippines and assist these in want. “This is my calling,” she mentioned on the episode’s conclusion.
Following the episode, Barrett tweeted a video of the second, writing alongside it, “She’s going! A New Journey Begins! Will miss this one!” Meanwhile, Cooper shared a video at dinner along with her castmates on her Instagram Story, together with the caption, “Gonna miss my OneChicago fam.”
She’s going! A New Journey Begins! Will miss this one! 😭 #ChicagoMed pic.twitter.com/Umqe8zjh22
— Marlyne Barrett (@barrettmarlyne) November 3, 2022
Cooper first appeared within the Dick Wolf drama collection in Season 6 and has featured in 29 episodes between 2021 and 2022. She performed Vanessa, a first-year resident, who initially had rigidity with Maggie as a result of her being her organic mom and never wanting anybody to know.
Her earlier credit embody Secret Diary of an American Cheerleader, Snowfall, The Fosters, and All American.
Cooper’s exit marks the newest in a string of current Chicago Med departures. Earlier this season, Guy Lockard and Sarah Rafferty, who performed Dr. Dylan Scott and Dr. Pamela Blake, respectively, each left the hospital drama. In addition, Brian Tee, who has performed Dr. Ethan Choi because the collection premiere, is predicted to go away the collection in December.
Speaking on Lockard’s exit earlier this 12 months, co-showrunner Andrew Schneider instructed Variety, “We love Guy. He did a great job and was wonderful to work with. But what was sort of the cornerstone of his character was a doctor who had been a cop and couldn’t escape his past — it becomes very evident in the premiere episode.
He added: “So having really resolved that, we felt we had really covered his story arc, but Guy is so good and was such a wonderful character that we would welcome bringing him back in the future.”
Chicago Med, Wednesdays, 8/7c, NBC