Main Characters
| Character | Actor | Seasons | Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sean McNamara | Dylan Walsh | 1–6 | A plastic surgeon nearing middle age and trying to come to terms with his formerly 'perfect' life falling apart. Sean and Julia, who reconciled after a brief separation, have three children-Matt, Annie, and Connor, who is physically handicapped. Runs the McNamara/Troy plastic surgery practice with his best friend, Christian Troy, who is the biological father of Sean's son Matt. Sean fathers a third child, Connor, with Julia after their reconciliation. After Julia leaves him, Sean re-evaluates his life and sells his portion of the practice to Christian and Michelle Landau. The move to LA did not bring McNamara/Troy very much business. Sean and Christian were offered medical consultancies on the show Hearts and Scalpels; they also become actors on the show. Christian quit the show, leaving Sean with most of the attention and Christian angry, saying the show is good for his ego. Sean brought in a lot more customers because of the move to the show. He meets Kate, a woman who stars on the show with Sean and they date for awhile until she mentions her fantasy would be having sex with a black man. Later on, he gets seduced by Olivia's daughter Eden but Sean nearly has a heart attack having sex with her while on ecstasy. After a taping of Hearts and Scalpels Sean meets an agent that would like to have Sean as a client. She then becomes obsessed with Sean and wants nobody to come in the way of their unreal friendship. Sean finds out that Colleen is not really a talent agent at all but instead an obsessed fan who just sells teddy bears she makes. Colleen becomes crazier and tries to commit suicide by slitting her wrists at Sean's apartment. Sean gets a restraining order against her but that does not keep her away. While Sean is working on his daughter after a car accident Colleen comes into the surgical room and stabs Sean numerous times leaving him bleeding. Sean has enough strength to stab and kill her. Sean is now wheelchair bound and cannot perform surgery. However, Sean is pretending to be disabled because he's tired of working. Julia then everyone else finds this out. Sean meets Teddy (a short replacement for Liz) and they begin to hit it off. She asks Sean to marry her, he says yes. She is a black widow who kills her husbands just to inherit money. Teddy suggests Sean and the kids go camping so she could kill them all in an apparent accident. After locking their camper and releasing the accelerator she runs off but is murdered by a serial killer. Later Sean tries to commit suicide by swimming out too far. He is sent to a psychiatric ward. Sean later has sex with Kimber. Sean and Christian later bury another person who died on their operating table and this almost ends McNamara/Troy's partnership for good. Near the end of the series Sean quits McNamara/Troy to work solo. |
| Christian Troy | Julian McMahon | 1–6 | An egotistical and womanizing plastic surgeon also approaching middle age, Christian serves as a foil to the more family-minded Sean McNamara, his best friend and business partner. He is the biological father of Matt McNamara with whom he has a tempestuous relationship. Sean begins to take on the Carver victims, undoing his works and this makes him the Carver's next victim. He is warned that if he is to help another Carver victim, the Carver will kill him, which Sean does. However, the Carver instead targets Christian in the Season 2 finale. Kimber Henry is his on-again/off-again girlfriend, and actually his fiancee for some point during Season 3. However, their relationship ends when the Carver kidnaps Kimber. Christian's hope that selling ownership of the practice would lead to fewer stresses has proved to be unfounded. He begins a romantic relationship with married Michelle Landau, which becomes an engagement following the death of her husband. Buys out Sean's part of the practice only to sell his own stake in the practice to Michelle when he decides to leave her. In the fifth season, Christian becomes quite jealous of Sean who becomes an actor on the show "Hearts N' Scalpels" when Christian doesn't. He tries several different ways to get the recognition he believes he deserves, such as doing a naked photo shoot which attracts gay men to the office. He also works briefly as a male prostitute, when he is mistaken for an actual prostitute. Christian begins dating Julia, but cheats on her several times, most memorably with Gina, who accidentally falls of a roof seducing him. In the "Season 5 Part II" premiere, it is discovered that Christian has developed second stage breast cancer after revealing he had found a lump on his chest while accompanying Liz who had just had a mammogram. At the end of the episode he underwent a mastectomy with Sean promising to perform the reconstruction. After undergoing surgery and chemotherapy, Christian becomes very ill and Liz decides to stay with him while he recovers. The two have sex and briefly become a couple until Christian returns to his health enough to return to his womanizing ways. This hurts Liz, and she leaves McNamara/Troy, returning to Miami. Although he believes he is getting better, it's revealed his cancer has become terminal and he only has six months left. This inspires him to propose to Liz. At the end of the season, Christian is informed he is in remission, but after he has already married Liz. Christian then tell Liz he wants a divorce, causing her to sue for half of his assets. After a change of heart she drops the lawsuit, much to Christian's relief. Later, Kimber starts dating Dr. Mike Hamoui causing Christian to want Kimber back in his life. She eventually leaves Mike for Christian and they get married. Soon after though, after an incident where Christian attempts autoerotic asphyxiation he tells Kimber that he can't be with her anymore. This causes Kimber to commit suicide, which sends Christian into a depression. When Julia comes to Los Angeles to tell Sean that she and the kids are moving to England, she tells Christian that he steals people's souls and the best thing for him to do is let Sean go. He has a dream that night where Kimber tells him the only way to get away from him was to kill herself and that if Sean stayed he would end up a dead man as well. This causes Christian to dissolve the McNamara/Troy partnership and tells Sean to go to Bucharest. At the airport after Sean and Christian say their goodbyes, Christian uses his "I'm a doctor" technique into gaining the interest of a woman at a bar, proving that he will never change his ways. |
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