New Amsterdam (TV Series) - Cast and Characters

Cast and Characters

• Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as John Amsterdam, a New York homicide detective (badge number 9298)E-4 who will become mortal again after he finds his one true love. As a side effect of the immortality ritual, John has a rare Native American blood type (R_ZR_Z), with lethal levels of lead (120 μg/dL),E-1. His blood also clots quickly, with a platelet level ten times normal, despite very low levels of factor VIII.E-4 Later Dr. Dillane speculates that he may have pluripotent stem cells.E-8 He was born Johann van der Zee on June 1, 1607 in Amsterdam, Holland.E-2 Amsterdam is only the last of the aliases John has used, changing identities as often as once a decade.E-4

• Zuleikha Robinson as Eva Marquez, Amsterdam's new partner. She attended SUNY Binghamton.E-2 Her brother is also a police officer,E-1 and her father is police Chief Eddie Marquez.E-6 Her mother is a history teacher at Queens College.E-3

• Alexie Gilmore as Dr. Sara Millay Dillane, a Cornell graduate who lives in the West Village, within walking distance of St. Francis Hospital where she is an emergency room physician.E-3 Dr. Dillane pronounces Amsterdam dead after a heart attack, and he is convinced that she is "the one" (his soulmate). This is complicated by the revelation that she has been married for four years to Robert Camp, although they are currently separated.E-4 Sara initiates a divorce because her husband was having an ongoing affair.E-6/
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• Stephen Henderson as Omar York, who owns a jazz club named Omar's: Bar–Grill, and is John's 65-year-old son with schoolteacher Lily Rae Brown,E-2 an African American woman. He is named after Omar Khayyám.

• Susan Misner as Detective Sergeant Callie Burnett; Amsterdam, and Marquez's, boss beginning shortly before the fourth episode.