A decade after arriving in Hollywood, Melissa George has landed
a role in top-rating medical drama
Grey's Anatomy.
The former
Home And Away star plays a bisexual surgical
intern, Sadie, the potential love interest for lesbian medic Callie
Torres. Her first episode aired in the US on Thursday and will be
seen on Channel Seven in Australia around Easter.
George, 32, is happy to have a regular gig on a major network
after her action series,
Alias, was cancelled in 2005.
For years George was regarded as the Australian actress who
couldn't get a break in Hollywood, filming a number of pilot
programs which were never picked up. It took a small role on hit
sitcom
Friends, as a lesbian nanny, for her to receive wider
attention from casting directors.
Grey's Anatomy is her biggest US television series to
date but she also has a film role on the go - the thriller
Triangle, with former
McLeod's Daughters star Rachael
Carpani and American actress Holly Marie Combs.
"[
Grey's Anatomy] is such a big break for me," George
told
The Sun-Herald. "I played a lesbian nanny in
Friends so I'm very comfortable with it."
- Story by Rachel Browne for SMH