58 Facts About Kerry Weaver

Kerry Weaver is a fictional character, a physician, in the NBC television series ER.

Dr Kerry Weaver is portrayed by Laura Innes, who was promoted to the role of series regular beginning with the third-season episode "Dr Carter, I Presume", which aired on September 26,1996.

Kerry Weaver arrives at County General as Chief Resident, and later becomes an attending physician, is promoted to Chief of Emergency Medicine, and finally becomes the Hospital Chief of Staff.

Kerry Weaver is a dynamic character and has many moments of trying to figure out what is right and wrong.

Kerry Weaver is often shown making mistakes and trying to grapple with learning from her mistakes.

Kerry Weaver was unable to fully deal with her internalized homophobia and regretted that she never knew her birth parents.

In Season 3, Kerry Weaver became an ER attending physician alongside Mark Greene, whom she would always manage to compete with or maneuver to catch the eye of her superiors.

Kerry Weaver fought to keep her job and dignity, while some doctors worried about the liability involved in having an HIV-positive employee in the ER.

Kerry Weaver was the first person in a position of power to side with Jeanie, and the two remained friends until Jeanie's budget-related firing and her successful pressure campaign to get her job back.

Kerry Weaver demonstrated a great deal of compassion and a moral commitment to civil rights, and that helped her and Dr Greene draft an ER policy for HIV-positive employees.

Kerry Weaver hired a private investigator to locate her birth mother, an effort that initially failed and revealed Kerry Weaver's fear that she was raised by adoptive parents because her mother could not accept a disabled daughter.

In 1998, during Season 4, Kerry Weaver was briefly debilitated when an explosion at chemical plant sent victims flooding in, creating a toxic benzene spill in the ER.

Kerry Weaver suffered a convulsive seizure from the effects of the toxins.

Kerry Weaver was treated by Dr Carter and Dr Anna Del Amico.

Ever since her arrival at County General, Kerry Weaver had been very ambitious in pursuing higher administrative titles, such as Chief of Emergency Medicine.

Yet, after an incident involving the hiring of a doctor who turned out to be a very accomplished if bizarre non-physician, Kerry Weaver's chances were luckily left open.

However, in the end Kerry Weaver backed Dr Romano for Chief of Staff and in return she was given the position of Chief of Emergency Medicine.

In 1999, Kerry Weaver welcomed the chance to hire Dr Gabe Lawrence, who had been her mentor.

Kerry Weaver initially refused to accept Dr Mark Greene's assertion that Lawrence was suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, but she ultimately faced facts and said goodbye to her role model.

In mid-season, Kerry Weaver fell in love with staff psychiatrist Kim Legaspi, but was afraid to admit it to Legaspi or herself.

Once Kerry Weaver was able to admit to herself that she was gay, she was still uncomfortable about her coworkers finding out and the discriminatory consequences it might have on her career.

Kerry Weaver's act of courage kept Romano from firing Legaspi, but it emotionally drained Kerry Weaver, whose fears of discrimination ruining her career resurfaced.

Kerry Weaver was therefore unable to provide emotional support to Legaspi, who kept her job, but at the cost of seeing the entrenched homophobia of the hospital administration and her own girlfriend, who remained in the closet.

Legaspi broke up with Kerry Weaver and decided to take a job offer in San Francisco rather than face the homophobia from Romano or the lack of emotional support she received from Kerry Weaver.

Kerry Weaver ran afoul of Elizabeth Corday in Season 7 when she had Mark Greene evaluated for professional competency after he showed noticeable personality changes after returning from brain tumor surgery.

Elizabeth's departure came when she deliberately performed an illegal, life-saving transplant from an HIV+ donor into an HIV+ individual and did so in large part because she knew it would anger Kerry Weaver, leading Kerry Weaver to offer a demotion that Elizabeth declines before quitting.

Kerry Weaver still had not come out to any of her coworkers except Romano and Luka Kovac.

Kerry Weaver did begin a new relationship with firefighter Lt.

Lopez said, "I did you a huge favor," after the kiss in the ER; a few episodes later, Kerry Weaver admitted to her that she was right.

At the season's end, Kerry Weaver accepted herself as a lesbian, and became eager to combat homophobia wherever it appeared.

In Season Eight's second episode "The Longer You Stay", Kerry Weaver failed to answer repeated pages from Drs.

Kerry Weaver was finally hauled in by Dr Carter when he ran from the ER to get her personally from Doc Magoo's, sustaining a painful fall in the process.

Later in S8, Chen gets proof of Kerry Weaver's lying treachery and brings it to Dr Romano; he bluntly tells Kerry Weaver to rehire Chen as an attending or face a reopened lawsuit from the dead patient's family.

In "Bygones", Kerry Weaver was stunned when she realized a lonely young woman murdered her roommate because of unrequited love.

Kerry Weaver then reconciled with Lopez and the two of them made their first social appearance at an impromptu drinking party after Mark Greene died.

Kerry Weaver was visibly saddened by Greene's death and broke down after hearing the news of his passing.

Kerry Weaver later told Sandy she knew his demise was coming but never thought it would affect her as deeply as it did.

Kerry Weaver realized she had lost a friend and regretted the years they spent in competition for various ER posts and promotions.

Kerry Weaver wanted to have a child, but after suffering a miscarriage felt Lopez should carry the child.

The couple did not get much screen time that season, and Weaver was given another story thread about the consequences she faced when she failed to report a local politician who tested positive for syphilis; Alderman Johnathan Bright provided funding for County and a plum position for Kerry, but forced her to do an off-the-record treatment of his closeted gay lover that ended with the lover's accidental death from an allergic reaction to penicillin.

When Romano refused this, he was replaced with a somewhat surprised Kerry Weaver, who offered Romano a choice of becoming a staff teacher, running the ER, or being fired.

Romano took on the ER job and was awful at it, with Kerry Weaver not showing much sympathy when Dr Carter correctly told her that Romano was a dangerous liability inthat position.

Kerry Weaver settled into her chief administrative position but ran into various challenges that arose day by day from hospital staffing to the ER's hectic renovation.

When he was killed in a helicopter accident, Kerry Weaver, like many others, was not saddened, though she acknowledged that his presence was an important contribution to the hospital.

Later in early 2004, Kerry Weaver dedicated a Center of LGBT healthcare in the memory of Romano, which secretly served as post-mortem payback, since Romano was not a supporter of gay rights.

Later on in the season Lopez died from injuries she suffered while fighting a fire; Kerry Weaver was devastated by the loss.

Sandy's parents took custody of Henry and for the remainder of the season, Kerry Weaver's storyline focused on a child custody battle between herself and Lopez's parents.

The custody situation was eventually settled when the Lopezes and Weaver agreed to her having primary custody, with the Lopezes taking care of Henry while Kerry was at work.

Kerry Weaver was in town for a Christ Crusade and decided to meet her daughter since Kerry's biological father, Cody Boone, had recently died.

Kerry Weaver was surprised to learn that Helen knew nothing about it, and her long-held fear that the birth defect was the reason she was given up for adoption was resolved.

Kerry Weaver continued to play the background in most of the episodes this season.

Kerry Weaver asked Abby to be Henry's legal guardian in the event that something happened to her, but her surgery was entirely successful.

Kerry Weaver was demoted from Chief of Staff as a result and was back to being an attending physician.

Kerry Weaver decided to leave County General when ER chief Luka Kovac had to enact budget cuts and eliminate an attending position.

Kerry Weaver accepted a television show offer at WTVJ in Miami, despite Kovac's last-minute efforts to convince her to stay.

Kerry Weaver appeared in a flashback sequence in the Season 15 episode titled "Heal Thyself", which was set back in 2002, just months before Greene's death.

Kerry Weaver told him to step down and take a break from treating Catherine Banfield's son.

Kerry Weaver met up with Elizabeth Corday, Susan Lewis, John Carter, and Peter Benton after Carter's opening.