Midori Francis: 5 Things To Know About The Actress Playing Mika In ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Season 19

Grey’s Anatomy is getting immoderate caller faces successful season 19. As Ellen Pompeo scales backmost her role, new interns volition beryllium introduced. One of the newest doctors astatine Grey Sloan Memorial is played by Midori Francis.

If you’re a Netflix and HBO Max fan, you’ve apt already seen Midori successful immoderate of your favourite shows. From her caller relation connected Grey’s Anatomy to her idiosyncratic life, here’s what you request to cognize astir the 28-year-old arsenic Grey’s Anatomy play 19 gets underway.

Midori Francis makes her ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ debut successful the play 19 premiere. (ABC)

1. Midori plays Mika connected Grey’s Anatomy.

Dr. Mika Yasuda is simply a first-year nonmigratory who is simply a “middle kid with 8 siblings,” according to Deadline. “She is utilized to being overlooked and underestimated and uses it to her advantage. Mika is dealing with overwhelming pupil loans from med school, but she’s scrappy and assured she tin marque it successful the programme and emergence to the top.” She joins the formed alongside Adelaide Kane, Niko Terho, Alexis Floyd, and Harry Shum Jr.

2. Midori started retired successful theater.

Her archetypal signifier relation was successful 2014 successful Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Midori has since won Best Actress astatine the 2016 New York Innovative Theatre Awards. She’s besides earned Obie and Drama Desk Awards.

3. Midori’s breakout relation was successful Dash & Lily.

Midori starred arsenic the titular Lily alongside Austin Abrams successful Netflix’s 2020 vacation series Dash & Lily. She besides starred successful the Netflix movie Afterlife of the Party. Midori past went connected to prima successful The Sex Lives of College Girls arsenic Alicia. Midori is expected to instrumentality for the show’s upcoming 2nd season.

4. Midori is queer.

Midori identifies arsenic queer. She is besides vocal astir expanding Asian practice connected TV. Her begetter is of Japanese descent. “I cannot correspond everyone, of course,” Midori told The New York Times ahead of her Grey’s Anatomy debut. “I tin lone anticipation and combat to play afloat fleshed-out characters who are conscionable arsenic messy, joyful, hurt, silly, and analyzable arsenic each quality beings really are.”

Midori Francis arsenic Mika connected ‘Grey’s Anatomy.’ (ABC)

5. Midori went to Rutgers.

Midori grew up successful New Jersey and attended Rutgers University. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts successful acting. Her dad, Ken Iwama, is the existent chancellor of Indiana University Northwest.