Bellamy Young (Scandal) has joined the recurring cast of NBC‘s Brilliant Minds, which premieres its second season in September. She joins the previously announced new series regulars, Brian Altemus and John Clarence Stewart.
Inspired by the extraordinary life and work of world-famous author and physician Oliver Sacks, Brilliant Minds follows Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto), a revolutionary, larger-than-life neurologist, and his team of interns as they explore the last great frontier – the human mind – while grappling with their own relationships and mental health.
Young will play Dr. Amelia Frederick, the clinical director for a long-term mental healthcare facility, Hudson Oaks. She is well-acquainted with the woes of the mental healthcare system. But despite her years of hands-on experience in the field, Amelia isn’t jaded. Instead, she is passionate about destigmatizing long-term inpatient treatment and finding a solution to give her patients the best future possible. She becomes a worthy adversary for Dr. Wolf, and the two will go toe-to-toe this season.
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The cast also includes Tamberla Perry, Ashleigh LaThrop, Alex MacNicoll, Aury Krebs, Spence Moore II, Teddy Sears, and Donna Murphy.
Michael Grassi serves as writer and executive producer. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Leigh London Redman, Lee Toland Krieger, DeMane Davis, Henrik Bastin, Andy Serkis, Jonathan Cavendish and Will Tennant also executive produce. Berlanti Productions, Fabel Entertainment, The Imaginarium, Grassi Productions and Tavala produce in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
Young is best known for playing President Mellie Grant on ABC’s Scandal, which earned her a Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress. Most recently, she starred in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl. A Yale graduate, she began her career on Broadway, notably in the musical The Life, before transitioning to TV and film, starring in series such as Fox’s Prodigal Son and CBS’ Criminal Minds, and films like A Wrinkle in Time and Mission: Impossible III, among many others. She is repped by UTA, Untitled Entertainment, Focused Artists Branding and Schreck Rose Dapello.