92-669: Kevin McKidd (born 9 August 1973) is a Scottish actor and television director. Before playing the role of Dr. Owen Hunt in Grey's Anatomy , for which he is widely known, McKidd appeared as Tommy Mackenzie in Danny Boyle 's Trainspotting (1996). McKidd played Colin in the 2008 film Made of Honor, Count Vronsky in the BBC miniseries Anna Karenina (2000), Lucius Vorenus in the historical drama series Rome (2005–2007) and Dan Vasser in
184-446: A sexual affair . Directly before the episode involving the affair aired, McKidd told Entertainment Weekly : "The thing about Owen is that he tries to do things perfectly, and obviously, he messes up as the chief because you have to make these odd black-and-white decisions, and sometimes you make the wrong decision. There’s a lot of stress in his life at the moment, so he’s trying not to let that affect his efficiency as chief." Although
276-479: A Chair as one of Churchill's best works, stating that it "shows a real humility about the political inadequacy of playwrights." Her 2002 play, A Number , addresses the subject of human cloning and questions of identity. Churchill received an Obie Award in 2005 for this play. Her adapted screenplay of A Number was shown on BBC TV in September 2008. The play Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (2006) takes
368-576: A Wonderful Time (1960), and Easy Death (produced 1962) — were performed at Oxford by student theatre ensembles. Her play Downstairs was performed at the National Student Drama Festival in 1958 and won the first prize. While raising a family in the 1960s and 1970s, Churchill began to write short radio dramas for BBC Radio . These included The Ants (1962), Not, Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen (1971), and Schreber's Nervous Illness (1972). She also wrote television plays for
460-529: A biological child. This causes additional tension with Amelia, who knows Owen would have left her without trying to salvage their marriage. In light of Teddy's disinterest, Owen tells Amelia he chooses her. However, Owen continues to exhibit possessive and obsessive behavior over Teddy and her pregnancy, causing Amelia to permanently split from their relationship. Owen then adopts Leo as his son and welcomes his newborn daughter, Allison, with Teddy, whom they named after Teddy's best friend Allison Brown, who died during
552-715: A critical look at what she sees as Britain's submission to the United States in foreign policy. In 2010, Churchill was commissioned to write the libretto for a new short opera by Orlando Gough , as part of the Royal Opera House 's ROH2 OperaShots initiative. The resulting work, A ring a lamp a thing , played for five performances in the Linbury Studio Theatre at the Royal Opera House. Her play Love and Information opened at
644-572: A daughter and a son. In August 2015 McKidd and his family became US citizens. The couple said in July 2016 that they were separating and have been divorced since December 2017. McKidd married Arielle Goldrath in a Jewish ceremony on 13 January 2018. On 13 May 2018, they had a son. McKidd announced that their daughter was born 27 July 2019. He announced on social media in July 2022 that the couple had separated, Goldrath filed for divorce in December 2022 and
736-415: A different energy and a different viewpoint. I thought it was an important story to tell, especially on a prime-time TV show. To get in there and get your hands dirty and explore what trauma surgery is like in war zones and what it's like to rehabilitate yourself to civilian life. It's not just a new doctor showing up. It's exploring how hard it is to reintegrate yourself back into the real world after being in
828-407: A fit of pique, tells him to go be with Teddy. As a result, he flies to Germany to be with Teddy, but after they spend the night together, Owen reveals he is there at his wife's suggestion. Teddy is insulted he made her a last choice, citing his inability to be alone, and Teddy breaks it off. Owen returns to Grey Sloan alone. It is later discovered that Amelia's behavior was caused by a brain tumor. In
920-434: A gas main explosion. Cristina has a quick but emotional goodbye hug with Derek, Bailey, and Webber; leaves her shares of the hospital to Alex; and dances it out with Meredith one last time to an old favorite song. Owen, however, is busy saving a patient in the operating room so they share a silent goodbye through the gallery's glass. In Season 11 , Owen develops a relationship with Amelia Shepherd ( Caterina Scorsone ). This
1012-589: A good man, a good soldier, and a good surgeon [because of war]." There's a great debate there for what the dynamic is, with what Cristina has done to this marriage and her choice and what Owen's choice is and his behavior. There's a really interesting conversation to be had because of those choices: How do you move on? How does that change the dynamic of the relationship? If you can really dive into that -- there's two betrayals, very big ones. I don't know how they sustain that relationship. I don't know how you come back from that kind of betrayal. Certainly if you're married,
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#17327731215491104-463: A home and family to achieve success in the world of business. Half the action takes place at a celebratory dinner where Marlene mixes with historical, iconic and fictional women who have achieved great stature in a "man's world", but always at great cost. The other half of the play, set a year in the past, focuses on Marlene's family, where the true cost of her "successful" life becomes poignantly and frighteningly apparent. In Top Girls , Churchill devised
1196-565: A job to run a state of the art clinic in Switzerland . Owen supports her decision as he realizes no good could come from him asking her to stay. He requests that Cristina not to leave him until she has to leave him for good, and they spend the two weeks leading to her permanent departure together. While saying her farewell to her colleagues of the last seven years, there is a possible act of terrorism in Seattle, which later turns out to be just
1288-422: A multi-episode story arc, Kevin McKidd 's contract was extended, securing him a place as a series regular on Grey's Anatomy . In July 2008, Entertainment Weekly reported the possibility of McKidd becoming a series regular, which was eventually confirmed by People Magazine . When asked of how he got involved with the show, McKidd offered the insight: I was doing a movie off and on for three months, and it
1380-405: A multi-episode story arc, he was upgraded to a series regular at the conclusion of his first appearance. Hunt served as a love interest for surgical fellow Cristina Yang ( Sandra Oh ) and had an unstable personality when first introduced, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). McKidd's on-screen chemistry with Oh received critical acclaim, with Matt Roush of TV Guide calling
1472-590: A number of her plays. During this period, she also wrote Objections to Sex and Violence (1974). Her first play to receive wide notice was Cloud Nine (1979), "a farce about sexual politics", set partly in a British overseas colony during the Victorian era . It explores the effects of the colonialist / imperialist mindset on intimate personal relationships, and uses cross-gender casting for comic and instructive effect. The play became successful in Britain and in
1564-460: A one-note character, as well as relate to Owen's internal struggles, shared by many a real-life war vet. Margaret Lyons of New York Magazine judged Hunt as "too sad" during the first part of the ninth season . In 2010, Kevin McKidd was nominated for the Prism Award for Best Performance in a Drama Series' Multi-Episode Storyline, and he won the award. In 2011, McKidd was nominated for
1656-413: A people to let things turn bad if we went and tried it. Why not? Why not try at least?" Prism Award - Best Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline 2011 Prism Award - Best Performance in a Drama Series Episode - Nominated Owen Hunt Major (Ret.) Owen Hunt , M.D. , F.A.C.S. , is a fictional character from the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy , which airs on
1748-464: A play about Gaza , online, for free download and use. Churchill said: "Anyone can perform it without acquiring the rights, as long as they do a collection for people in Gaza at the end of it". In April 2022, Churchill was named the recipient of the 2022 European Drama award in recognition of her life's work. The prize was worth £65,000, and was given by German theatre Schauspiel Stuttgart and sponsored by
1840-488: A restraining order against Owen, requiring him to be 500 feet away. Teddy has been finding motherhood overwhelming and hating her maternity leave, so Owen decides to take paternity leave to allow her to return to work. His paternity leave turns into a resignation. Owen eventually accepts an offer from Karev to become Chief of Trauma at Pac-North after he finds stay-at-home parenting overwhelming and boring, though when Pac-North merges with Grey Sloan, Owen returns to Grey Sloan. At
1932-706: A reversal of blame, Amelia is angry that Owen placed sole blame on her for their marital issues, as well as committing adultery with Teddy, since he ignored all of her tumor symptoms as selfishness and poor character. Despite pursuing their divorce, they continue sleeping together. Owen decides to pursue his lifelong dream of fatherhood alone and begins fostering Leo, a baby who was given up by his teenage mother. When Amelia finds Leo's mother, Betty, homeless and addicted to drugs, Amelia takes Betty in, and, together, Owen and Amelia take care of Leo and Betty at Owen's home, reconciling and deciding to stay in their relationship and renew their marriage. In Season 15 , Owen and Amelia have
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#17327731215492024-412: A strong relationship, which is interrupted by the news that Teddy is pregnant with Owen's child. Teddy did not tell Owen at first, because she knew he would leave Amelia for the chance to be a father, and Teddy does not want to be with Owen after he made her his alternate choice. Owen is upset because he would not have reconciled with Amelia or fostered Leo if Teddy had told him earlier that he was expecting
2116-404: A surgery she was currently performing and Teddy blaming Owen for her husband's death. Feeling abandoned and disconcerted after an altercation with Cristina, Owen has a one-night stand with a patient's friend. Cristina consequently finds out, terminates their relationship, and their marriage is tested. After Cristina passed her medical boards, she reconciles with Owen, but reveals to him that she
2208-614: A system to indicate how the dialogue should be performed. She used the forward dash signal (/) to demonstrate a person interrupting the person speaking. She also used the asterisk symbol (*) to indicate a speech following on from a speech earlier than the one immediately before it. Softcops (first produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984) is a "surreal play set in 19th-century France about government attempts to depoliticize illegal acts". Justin Hayford of
2300-450: Is on-and-off throughout Seasons 11 and 12 until the end of Season 12 where he and Amelia get married, after Amelia proposes to him. Owen is attracted to Amelia's desire for a "real family" and children. In Season 14 , after going through a series of marital issues, Owen decides to pursue a divorce from Amelia, citing Amelia's reversal on wanting to have children and her increasingly erratic behavior. Owen listens to Amelia when she, in
2392-436: Is again very strained. Cristina is working at Mayo Clinic and Owen is in Seattle but she eventually returns and then Owen asks for a divorce. He later shows that he is still in love with her and only asked for a divorce so Cristina and the others involved in the plane crash could get the money. Cristina and Owen reconcile in episode 9 before Miranda Bailey 's ( Chandra Wilson ) wedding. In Season 10 , Cristina decides to accept
2484-621: Is credited with playing a voice-over for the character John "Soap" MacTavish in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 . In 2012, he voiced the characters of Lord MacGuffin and his son Young MacGuffin in the Disney/Pixar film Brave . Having grown up in Elgin, McKidd used a variation of the Doric dialect for Young MacGuffin, and one of the running gags of his lines
2576-548: Is leaving Seattle to go to Mayo Clinic . Teddy and Owen eventually became friends again. She had been offered a position at the United States Army Medical Command but chose to stay at Seattle Grace Mercy West out of loyalty. After Teddy's husband Henry dies she wallows in her grief and it affects her colleagues and residents, causing Owen to "fire" her so that she can have a fresh start elsewhere. He also fires April Kepner ( Sarah Drew ) because
2668-419: Is needed and when to cut to the chase, and doesn't want to mess about with the periphery of it. And sometimes that gets him into trouble, and sometimes that is for the best. So, it'd be interesting and kind of exciting to see where he goes." The look of Owen has been described as hardcore and the antithesis of the other male characters on the show. McKidd explains that it’s not just Owen's appearance but also
2760-460: Is really interesting and exciting to play. [...]" Additionally, McKidd describes Hunt as "very instinctive, follows his gut, and is very impulsive and immediate. He immediately assesses a situation. And he's very honest, sometimes painfully honest, with himself and with others. He wants to make himself better, to improve as a person. He's a decent guy, a sort of guy I'd like to go out and have a beer with." Hunt's unorthodox teaching methods have been
2852-444: Is taking advantage of her PTSD to rush her into marriage, which she had previously decided against. When Cristina discovers she is pregnant, Owen is displeased with her desire to abort the baby, and the two separate from each other. One of the major, recurring points of conflict in their relationship are Owen's strong desires for children and a traditional wife, and Cristina's equally strong conviction that she never wants children. In
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2944-542: Is that it's quite brave of ABC and Shonda [Rhimes], on a primetime network TV show, to address a tough subject, and one that people don't necessarily want to hear about. But so far, the writing room is handling it beautifully. They're not banging people over the head with it but exploring it in a sensitive and interesting way." Owen and Cristina struggled with their fictional relationship in Season 8 , culminating in Owen having
3036-479: Is that not even Lord MacGuffin is entirely sure what Young MacGuffin is saying. McKidd instigated The Speyside Sessions , a Scottish folk music album recorded in 2011/12 at Hogmanay in his home town of Elgin. Many of the contributors to the album were old school friends of McKidd's. The album was released on 15 June 2012 in aid of Save the Children . McKidd married Jane Parker in 1999. They have two children,
3128-432: Is the road to connect that back, because obviously the season premiere was before he went back to Iraq and this event has happened to him that's changed him. And so, they're trying to get that feeling back because there's obviously something really true and meant to be between these two people. But it's complicated right now because she's damaged because of what's happened to her, and he is certainly struggling with himself and
3220-570: The Chicago Reader wrote that the play had little to offer to those who had already read Michel Foucault 's Discipline and Punish (on which Softcops is based), and that the play "glosses Foucault's monumental work in Cliffs Notes fashion". In 2018, Michael Billington stated that Softcops "felt like a meditation on crime and punishment lacking Churchill's usual gift of narrative drive." The play A Mouthful of Birds (1986)
3312-552: The 2008 Israeli attack on Gaza . It was performed for free at the Royal Court Theatre , with a collection taken to donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians . The Sunday Times condemned its "ludicrous and utterly predictable lack of even-handedness"; for The Times , "there are no heroes or villains, for all that Churchill decries what is happening in Gaza". Writers such as Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and Melanie Phillips in her Spectator blog criticised
3404-601: The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in the United States. The character was created by series' producer Shonda Rhimes , and is portrayed by Scottish actor Kevin McKidd . He was introduced in Season 5 as a U.S. Army trauma surgeon who served in war-torn Iraq , and subsequently joins the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital to teach medicine as a surgical attending , head of trauma surgery , and eventual chief of surgery, sometimes utilizing unconventional methods. Originally contracted to appear for
3496-531: The Baden-Württemberg ministry of science, research and arts. The award was cancelled following criticism of Churchill's support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a decision condemned by industry figures including Harriet Walter , Stephen Daldry , Peter Kosminsky and Dominic Cooke . She married campaigning barrister David Harter in 1961 (died 2021). They had three sons and she
3588-693: The COVID-19 pandemic frontlines. Owen and Teddy start sleeping with each other again, and in the season finale, Owen proposes to Teddy, which she accepts. In the beginning of Season 18 , Owen and Teddy got married at the Emerald City Bar after their wedding at the Park was interrupted by a bicycle accident. Shonda Rhimes , the series' creator, stated that the character was envisioned as "an old-fashioned tortured hero" and likened him to Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights . Originally set to appear in
3680-660: The Royal Court Theatre from 1974 to 1975, and was the Royal Court's first female playwright in residence. She began collaboration with theatre companies such as the Joint Stock Theatre Company and the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company (a feminist theatre collective). Both used an extended workshop period in their development of new plays. Churchill continues to use an improvisational workshop period in developing
3772-720: The University of Edinburgh , then decided to audition at Edinburgh's Queen Margaret University , where he was accepted to study Drama. He joined Edinburgh University's student theatre company, Bedlam Theatre , where he was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe The Improverts . After playing Tommy Mackenzie in Trainspotting , McKidd was cast as Father Deegan in the 1996 Christmas episode of Father Ted . Subsequent roles include Malky Johnson in Small Faces . In 2004, he played James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell ,
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3864-478: The collapse of the second tower on September 11, 2001 . Teddy has a change of mind and decides to try a relationship with Owen. In Season 16 , Owen is in a relationship with Teddy, whom he had previously given his position as Grey-Sloan's Head of Trauma to keep her in the country. Owen has a contentious relationship with the new Chief of Surgery, Koracick, whom Teddy had dated during her pregnancy. After Owen accidentally electrocutes his genitals, Koracick takes out
3956-412: The "instant sparks" between McKidd and Oh "electrifying". Chris Monfette of IGN praised the addition of "fresh, new characters" like Owen Hunt. Before his regular appearances on the show, Owen Hunt was a United States Army surgeon, specializing in trauma surgery . He held the rank of Major. The character makes a dramatic first appearance when he performs a tracheotomy on a man with a pen, winning
4048-600: The 14th Prism Awards for his work in Grey's Anatomy . He played the role of Poseidon , god of the seas, and the father of Percy Jackson in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief . McKidd has done voice work and voiced the character of Jezz Torrent, flame haired lead singer of the fictional Scottish hard rock band Love Fist in the video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City . He
4140-507: The 2005 BBC drama, The Virgin Queen , he played Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk . In 1998, McKidd was in the four part BBC2 series Looking After Jo Jo , playing the role of Basil. He was also one of the main stars of the joint HBO / BBC series Rome , where his portrayal of the soldier-politician Lucius Vorenus received critical acclaim. McKidd starred in the premiere of Caryl Churchill 's newest play, Far Away . He played Todd,
4232-425: The BBC, including The After-Dinner Joke (1978) and Crimes (1982). These, as well as some of her radio plays , have been adapted for the stage. In her early work, Churchill explored gender and sexuality through modernist theatre techniques of epic theatre . In the mid-1980s, she started to incorporate dance-theatre in her writing. A Mouthful of Birds (1986) is the first example of this, and references
4324-572: The NBC series Journeyman (2007). He provided the voice of John "Soap" MacTavish in the video games Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 . He also played Poseidon in the film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief , and Father Deegan in the Father Ted Christmas special. McKidd was born on 9 August 1973, in Elgin, Moray , Scotland,
4416-532: The Prism Award for Best Performance in a Drama Series for his work on Grey's Anatomy . McKidd, along with the rest of the Grey's Anatomy cast, was nominated for Best Drama Series at the 21st GLAAD Media Awards in 2010. Also in 2010, McKidd and the cast were nominated for Outstanding Drama Series at the NAACP Image Awards . The same nomination was received at the 2011 NAACP Image Awards, with
4508-683: The Royal Court Theatre in September 2012, directed by James Macdonald . It was well-received by critics. The play, featuring 100 characters and performed by a cast of 15, is structured as a series of more than 50 fragmented scenes, some no longer than 25 seconds, all of which are apparently unrelated but which accumulate into a startling mosaic, a portrayal of modern consciousness and the need for human intimacy, love and connection. The play will have its regional premiere at Sheffield Theatres in June 2018, directed by Caroline Steinbeis. Ding Dong
4600-550: The United States, winning an Obie Award in 1982 for best play of the year in New York. Churchill gradually abandoned more conventions of realism , with her loyalty to feminist themes and ideas becoming a guiding principle in her work. She won an Obie Award for best play in 1983 with Top Girls , "which deals with women's losing their humanity in order to attain power in a male-dominated environment." It features an all-female cast, and focuses on Marlene, who has relinquished
4692-561: The Wicked (2013) has been described as a companion piece to Love and Information . Charles Spencer said in The Telegraph that the work is "little more than a clever dramatic exercise" but "nags away in the memory long after you have left the theatre". Matthew Tucker gave the Royal Court Theatre performance three out of five stars, dubbed the play "snappy", and wrote, "Some may find this latest offering terse and obscure, however, in
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#17327731215494784-581: The admiration of resident Cristina Yang ( Sandra Oh ). He is offered a job by former chief of surgery Richard Webber ( James Pickens, Jr. ), but declines, explaining that he has not completed his tour in Iraq. His appointment as the new head of trauma surgery at Seattle Grace Hospital was not well-received initially. By his first week he manages to irk both Derek Shepherd ( Patrick Dempsey ) and Mark Sloan ( Eric Dane ), head of neurosurgery and plastic surgery , respectively, who view his treatment of some of
4876-575: The breakup, he begins therapy with the hospital psychiatrist, Dr. Wyatt. Some time later, a soldier visits the hospital for treatment, and his presence influences Owen to contemplate returning to the US Army. When he shares this with Cristina, she disagrees with his decision, stating that she doesn't want him to die, and the two eventually rekindle their relationship. Owen brings in Teddy Altman ( Kim Raver ), his best friend and colleague from when he
4968-670: The cast winning the award. At the 43rd NAACP Image Awards in 2012, McKidd and the cast were nominated yet again for Outstanding Drama Series. Specific General Caryl Churchill Caryl Lesley Churchill (born 3 September 1938) is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non- naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), and A Number (2002), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for
5060-479: The characters' marriage was tested, McKidd reported to The Hollywood Reporter : "I think they're meant for each other. I hold out faith in Cristina and Owen, even though they go to the darkest places out of all the couples on the show. It's going to get worse, but it's going to get better soon." The character has received generally positive feedback from television critics. Weeks after Hunt's first appearance on
5152-539: The contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice , six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright. Churchill was born on 3 September 1938 in Finsbury , London , the daughter of Jan Brown, a fashion model and actress, and Robert Churchill, a political cartoonist. After the Second World War , her family emigrated to Montreal , Canada; Churchill
5244-622: The divorce was finalized in June 2023. In April 2013 McKidd was Grand Marshal of the 15th annual Tartan Day Parade in New York City . At the time, he voiced his support for Scottish independence and expressed regret that he would be unable to vote in the then upcoming Scottish independence referendum the following year because he no longer lives in Scotland. Of Scottish independence, McKidd stated, "A lot of people think we're all gonna fall flat on our face if we do this. We're too feisty
5336-418: The end of the season, Owen discovers that Teddy is cheating on him with Koracick after Teddy accidentally sends Owen a voicemail of her and Koracick having sex. In Season 17 , Owen confronts Teddy about her affair and ends their engagement. He and Teddy butt heads at work, as Owen is unable to forgive Teddy, but he eventually offers her friendship after she falls in a catatonic state from overworking herself in
5428-410: The fact that, in his profession, he is dealing with life and death every day. One key distinction McKidd finds between his character and the others is that Owen does not care what other people think of him. When McKidd returned after his first appearance, his character seemed to have changed. McKidd told TV Guide : "Yes, that was who he really is in the premiere, but now we're seeing what can happen to
5520-405: The fallout of resident Meredith Grey ( Ellen Pompeo ) tampering with Derek Shepherd's Alzheimer's trial, Owen is promoted to Chief of Surgery after Webber steps down. After substantial thought, Owen reluctantly decides to accompany Cristina to the abortion, uniting the two. Owen's friendship with Teddy ends when Owen lies to Teddy about her husband's sudden death, due to Owen wanting her to finish
5612-486: The fractious situation in the United States due to the writer's strike at the time. Thirteen episodes were produced. His role in Rome led to McKidd's casting in the medical drama series Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Owen Hunt . He made his directorial debut in the series's seventh season, directing the episode "Don't Deceive Me (Please Don't Go)". He won the award for "Best Performance in a Drama Series Multi-Episode Storyline" at
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#17327731215495704-461: The hospital cannot afford to keep her due to her not being Board certified. Months later, Hunt visits Kepner and rehires her as he realized he made a mistake. In later seasons, Owen and Kepner become close friends due to her choice to sign up with the military, a decision Owen helped prompt and encourage, and a decision which leads to the eventual end of Kepner's marriage to Jackson Avery ( Jesse Williams ). In Season 9 , Cristina and Owen's marriage
5796-572: The last newspaper's Henry Hitchings stating: "While the incantatory style isn't consistently engaging, this is a striking parade of views on a subject that merits more sustained treatment." Andrzej Lukowski of Time Out said in a three-star review that the play "makes its point effectively if tersely". Mark Lawson of The Guardian praised Beautiful Eyes as a "sharp" comedy. Churchill has published translations of Seneca 's Thyestes , Olivier Choinière 's Bliss (Félicité) , and August Strindberg 's A Dream Play . Her version of A Dream Play
5888-497: The late 1990s. In 1997 she collaborated with the composer Orlando Gough to create 'Hotel,' a choreographed opera or sung ballet set in a hotel room. Also that year her surrealistic short play 'This Is a Chair' was produced." Reviews of the London opening of Hotel were favorable, but with the first piece ("Eight Rooms") generally considered superior to the second ("Two Nights"). In 2015, Moira Buffini of The Guardian listed This Is
5980-422: The notion of the next step would be to have children and if that's been taken away, I would find it very hard for Owen to stay in that relationship. — Patrick Dempsey ( Derek Shepherd ) on Owen and Cristina's relationship, involving Cristina's no desire to bear children. The character of Owen Hunt had an almost instant attraction to Cristina Yang from his first appearance at Seattle Grace, illustrated by
6072-460: The other males on the show". Chris Monfette of IGN praised the fifth season of Grey's Anatomy as an improvement on the previous two seasons, attributing this in part to the introduction of "fresh, new characters" like Owen and Arizona Robbins ( Jessica Capshaw ). He also referred to McKidd as "Season 5's best, most effective addition", adding: Not only is McKidd an immediately likeable and engaging actor, his struggle with PTSD throughout
6164-486: The passionate kiss they share soon after meeting. Owen's story and connection with Cristina has been a topic of discussion. McKidd remarked: "Between him [Owen] and her [Cristina], it’s going to get really complex, and kind of tense and explosive." Owen and Cristina have experienced roadblocks in their fictional relationship, and continue to. McKidd offered this insight on his character's relationship with Cristina: It's not going to be easy for them. What I read when I read
6256-404: The patients as crude, and also rebuffed by resident Izzie Stevens ( Katherine Heigl ) when he stabs a set of pigs and then orders the residents and interns to save their lives, in order to teach them medicine on "live tissue". Hunt eventually embarks on a relationship with Yang, but it comes to a sudden close when his PTSD gets the best of him, and he unconsciously strangles her. Soon after
6348-505: The people around him and the world in general, and trying to keep himself together after what's happened to him. So, I think, it's exciting to see what happens with these two guys because, in a way, they're the two people you'd least expect to have a love affair, but it's happening to them and they can't stop it. McKidd has referred to his character and Cristina Yang as " soulmates ". Speaking of Owen's PTSD storyline, McKidd stated: "What's exciting about telling this story with this character
6440-448: The play "wryly picaresque" in 2015. Churchill's play The Skriker (1994) includes distorted language, references to English folktales, and evocations of modern urban life. The Skriker is an ancient shape-shifting fairy and death portent in a search for revenge and love. The play initially received lukewarm reviews from critics, but is now considered among Churchill's successes. "The prolific Churchill continued to push boundaries into
6532-403: The play as "mystifying in its attempt to create a dance-drama suggesting that the violence and ecstasy of Euripides' The Bacchae were alive in modern Britain." Serious Money (1987), "a comedy about excesses in the financial world", is a verse play, chiefly written in rhyming couplets. It takes a satirical look at the vagaries of the stock market and its Thatcherite denizens. The play
6624-409: The play as anti-Semitic, as did John Nathan. He noted that Churchill has said that Seven Jewish Children is "not just a theatre event but a political event." He suggested that a play representing views of one community and critical of that community needed to be written by a member of that community. The Royal Court denied the accusation. Churchill published the play, Seven Jewish Children –
6716-572: The rest of the cast, did his own singing in the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas portrayed in the film. In 2001, he played Elliot in the British film Understanding Jane , directed by Caleb Lindsay. He appeared in Ridley Scott 's Kingdom of Heaven , and in the 2002 film adaptation of Nicholas Nickleby . In Neil Marshall 's horror film Dog Soldiers , he appeared as Pte Lawrence Cooper. In
6808-574: The romantic partner of Joan, and her co-worker as hat maker. Additional work includes his role in the Silence of the Lambs prequel Hannibal Rising (2007). In late 2007, McKidd began his role as the lead character in the American fantasy television series Journeyman on NBC. Despite starting out with a strong audience, the show lost about half of its viewership throughout its run and suffered from
6900-429: The season premiere, and this is just my take on it, is that it was very much two very analytical people, Owen and Cristina. They're very similar in a way, I think, as people. Two analytical people see each other over a crowded ER room and their eyes meet. It's almost more complicated, but on a really simplistic level, it's almost a love at first sight scenario that happened on the season premiere. And then, what we're seeing
6992-423: The season – and especially how it impacted his burgeoning relationship with Cristina – proved both relevant and dramatically gripping. His interactions with Cristina were perfectly balanced for optimum drama, never together and never apart for so long that the back-and-forth became frustrating. Viewers could clearly see a softening of the typically hard-edged Cristina, a pleasant change for what had become something of
7084-528: The show, Matt Roush of TV Guide commented that "Hunt/McKidd is the most encouraging thing to happen to Grey's Anatomy in quite a while", adding that "the instant sparks between him [Hunt] and Yang were electrifying". On the other hand, Robert Rorke of the New York Post stated that McKidd was brought in as Hunt to "boost the sagging fortunes" of the show's ratings. Kelley L. Carter of USA Today described Hunt as "hardcore" and "the antithesis of
7176-478: The show. The transition was much easier than I thought it might be, which I'm very grateful for." McKidd also shared with People Magazine that he thinks Grey's Anatomy is a great show and feels lucky to be part of it. Shonda Rhimes , the series' creator, said of his addition, "I am excited to have Kevin McKidd joining us for the season. He's been a delight to collaborate with and brings incredible passion, talent, and creativity to his work. Plus, he’s already got
7268-638: The son of Kathleen, a secretary, and Neil McKidd, a plumber. He grew up on a council estate in Elgin. At 17, McKidd worked at the Macallan distillery in Speyside . He later went to work with the Lumsden family of coppersmiths. He attended Seafield Primary School and Elgin Academy . and was a member of the local amateur dramatic group, Moray Youth Theatre. Planning to study engineering, he initially attended
7360-474: The spirit of explorative theatre, Ding Dong The Wicked is an intriguing and satisfying production." A reviewer for the Evening Standard argued: "What it all means is food for later reflection, but as always Churchill seems inventive, coolly socialist, bleak yet dazzling, a bit of a shaman. Although her technique sounds gimmicky, it works." Conversely, The Guardian 's Michael Billington wrote that
7452-506: The subject of controversy. McKidd said of this: "You know, I think, at the end of the day, [Owen]'s basically a good man who has some pretty extreme teaching techniques that he learned in the army. And all these things that are in the show are actually the way trauma surgeons are taught. But I think probably beyond that, he very much just calls a spade a spade and looks at each scenario. He's not trying to be difficult. He just looks at each scenario and each case and each patient and knows what
7544-616: The surrealist theatre tradition of Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty . The fragmented and surrealistic narratives in Churchill's work characterise it as postmodernist . In 1972, Churchill wrote Owners , a two-act, 14-scene play about obsession with power. It was her first professionally produced stage play and "her first major theatrical endeavour"; it was produced in London the same year. She served as resident dramatist at
7636-529: The third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots , in the BBC mini-series Gunpowder, Treason & Plot . In 1999, he was part of an ensemble cast in Mike Leigh 's Topsy Turvy , depicting the development of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado . The actors researched their historical characters and used this knowledge during extensive rehearsals to help develop dialogue for scenes blocked out by Leigh. McKidd, like
7728-466: The war zone for three tours. McKidd told BuddyTV , "It's been really great. I was nervous when I started because every job I've ever done before this, I have been in the job right from day one when everybody's new and getting to know each other. So I was nervous because I had never done this before. And I feel really grateful to the Grey's cast and crew and everyone there, really, because they've been so nice to me, gracious, and accepting of me joining
7820-642: The work "feels as if it's cramming a trunkload of ideas into a tiny vanity case [...] the tightness of the format means there is no room to explore the source of so much private and public fury, or to differentiate between one society and another. In short, the play is too generalised to make any strong emotional impact." The Royal Court Theatre premiere of Pigs and Dogs received a positive review in The Stage and moderately positive reviews in The Guardian , The Observer , and Evening Standard , with
7912-421: The ‘Mc’ built into his name, so we had to keep him." The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) characterized Hunt as "confident," "innovative," and "intelligent," while also describing him as "aggressive," "brazen," "presumptuous," "hasty," and "rash". McKidd said of his character: "[...] He's not an easy character to connect to, I think. There's some darkness to him and there's some danger to him that I think
8004-409: Was co-written with David Lan . Wallace Shawn has argued that it is among the "rich, inventive" Churchill works that are responsible for theater remaining exciting in modern times. Cameron Woodhead of The Sydney Morning Herald billed the play as "a difficult pleasure to watch and a challenge to perform". Billington listed A Mouthful of Birds as one of Churchill's misfires, however, and dismissed
8096-493: Was highly acclaimed, perhaps in part because it played immediately after the stock market crash of 1987. Icecream ( Royal Court Theatre 1989) explores Anglo-American stereotypes. Richard Christensen of the Chicago Tribune wrote that Icecream "doesn't have much depth, but it does have a quirky, creepy kick to it", describing it as "a small but telling piece of theater". Andrew Dickson of The New Yorker dubbed
8188-579: Was in the army, as the new head of cardiothoracic surgery . When it is revealed that Hunt and Altman may be potential lovers, Hunt and Yang's relationship is challenged, and eventually concluded by Yang. During a hospital shooting , Owen is shot and injured, attracting the sympathy of Cristina, who subsequently restores their relationship. Due to the emotional reverberations of the shooting crisis, Owen and Cristina decide to wed one another shortly after their reconciliation, not wanting to risk separation. There are some concerns from Cristina's friends that Owen
8280-452: Was my son's birthday, so I managed to land back in LA . around 2 p.m. Then I got a call from my agent, saying, "You have to turn back around because Shonda wants to meet you for this role on Grey’s." I was like, "I'd love to meet her, but I can't. Can we do tomorrow?" And they're family-friendly, so they were really understanding. As soon as I heard the pitch for the character, I was sold on it. It's
8372-621: Was premiered at the National Theatre in 2005. The Royal Court Theatre held a 70th-birthday retrospective of her work by presenting readings of many of her most famous plays directed by notable playwrights, including Martin Crimp and Mark Ravenhill . Churchill is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign . In January 2009, she wrote a ten-minute play that explores a history of Israel, ending with
8464-583: Was ten years old. In Montreal, she attended Trafalgar School for Girls . She returned to England to attend university in 1956, and in 1960 graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford , with a BA degree in English Literature . She received the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize at Oxford and also began her writing career there. Her four earliest plays — Downstairs (produced 1958), You've No Need to be Frightened , Having
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