Jamie-Lynn Sigler is heading to Grey’s Anatomy!
On Thursday (December 11), it was announced that the 44-year-old The Sopranos actress has joined the ABC medical drama in a guest-starring role.
Jamie-Lynn will be appearing on the January 15, 2026 episode as Dr. Laura Kaplan, a urologist living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
Keep reading to find out more…Her character will be visiting Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital at “the request of Catherine Fox (Debbie Allen) and offers Richard (James Pickens Jr.) a unique perspective on his case,” according to Deadline.
The role was created specifically for Jamie-Lynn, who has been living with MS for more than two decades. This will mark her return to TV after a three-year break.
Deadline notes that it was important to Grey’s producers, and to Jamie-Lynn, that the character not be “defined by their affliction and has a full life and a career.”
The Mayo Clinic describes MS as “a potentially disabling disease of the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system).”
Jamie-Lynn was first diagnosed with the neurological disease when she was 20.
It was also recently announced that a fan-favorite character is returning to Grey’s Anatomy!
