13 Facts About Cleo Finch

Cleo Finch is a fictional character from the NBC television series ER.

Dr Cleo Finch was first introduced at the start of Season 6 as a skilled new pediatric fellow at County.

Cleo Finch was portrayed as a hard-working, no-nonsense doctor who often jogged to work.

Dr Finch took over most of the pediatric storylines left void by the departures of George Clooney and Maria Bello and was portrayed as a generally competent doctor.

Cleo Finch had a tough time early in Season 6 when she was distracted by a loud, bratty obnoxious young girl and didn't diagnose the iron poisoning that led to the girl's death.

When no surgeons were available to perform a laparotomy on a dying patient in the aftermath of a stabbing in the ER, Dr Cleo Finch performed an emergency thoracotomy in the OR to stabilize the patient until a surgeon could be found.

Cleo Finch was at first reprimanded by Dr Peter Benton, her boyfriend at the time, but he later apologized, blaming the stress of performing surgery on his friend, Dr John Carter, a victim of the stabbing.

Cleo Finch barely responded and looked completely stunned and sorrowful, leading Peter to ask her what was wrong and her to brokenly tell him what had happened to Lucy Knight.

Cleo Finch seemed vaguely annoyed that Dr Carter was welcomed back to County after he went to rehab for his prescription medication addiction between Seasons 6 and 7, and briefly became angered by some issues she felt were racially tinged in Season 7, but neither storyline was maintained for very long.

Cleo Finch got along well with Peter's deaf son Reese, impressing Peter with her knowledge of ASL.

Cleo Finch often clashed with Reese's mother Carla, who saw Cleo Finch as interfering in her family's decisions and made an unsuccessful attempt to seduce Peter.

Cleo Finch took the stand to testify that she hoped to play an important role in both Peter and Reese's lives.

In Season 8, Cleo Finch left County for a job at a private hospital just outside Chicago.