Where are the cast of Scrubs now?
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Scrubs might not have been the biggest ratings or awards winner, but we took the comedy to our (sacred) hearts throughout its eight seasons. (Yeah, we're not counting that dodgy ninth rebooted season.)
Thanks to the launch of Star on Disney+ in the UK, the whole show is now available to rewatch, whether you've done it countless time since it ended more than a decade ago or fancy a first-ever rewatch.
Scrubs had the perfect mixture of silly comedy and genuinely heartfelt drama, full of colourful characters, hilarious extras (remember Dr Beardfacé?) and moments that made you cry.
We'd love to check up on every cast member, but almost everybody would have a different favourite, so we'd end up disappointing everyone. So we've decided to focus on the main cast of the show's original eight-season run to see what they've been up to since it ended.
Robert Maschio (The Todd)
Robert Maschio will probably forever be known as the ultra hypersexual frat-boy surgeon 'The Todd', but there are worse ways to be remembered.
Since then, he's only appeared in a handful of TV projects, including an episode of Bones and Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence's later series Cougar Town, and his last acting role was in 2015. He now works as a real estate broker for Bulldog Realtors.
Sam Lloyd (Ted)
Sam Lloyd sadly passed away at the age of 56 in April 2020 after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour in January 2019.
He had reprised his role as loveable sad-sack lawyer Ted in Cougar Town after the end of Scrubs. Lloyd also had roles in the likes of Modern Family and The Middle (reuniting with Neil Flynn), as well as being the lead singer of The Blanks (or The Worthless Peons, as they were on Scrubs).
Ken Jenkins (Kelso)
Ken was already a TV and movie veteran by the time he landed the role of the terrifying Chief of Medicine Bob Kelso.
Since those days, he also appeared in Cougar Town (was there a group discount?) for several episodes as Courteney Cox's dad. He has also popped up in Black-ish and Gravity Falls, while his most recent role was in A Series of Unfortunate Events as one of the members of the Village of Fowl Devotees' Council of Elders.
John C McGinley (Dr Cox)
Already a familiar face when he joined up as the surly but secretly loveable Perry Cox, John C McGinley has been keeping busy. He's had movie roles in the likes of Alex Cross and The Belko Experiment, as well as on TV shows including Stan Against Evil and Chicago PD.
McGinley is also an author, and a board member and an international spokesperson for the Global Down Syndrome Foundation, as well as being a spokesperson for the National Down Syndrome Society.
Christa Miller (Jordan)
Christa Miller has only featured in a couple of projects since playing Dr Cox's evil-turned-loving ex-wife, but one of those was as a main cast member in... yeah... Cougar Town.
She appeared in over 100 episodes as Ellie Torres, and there was definitely no nepotism going on there at all (her husband is the creator of both shows, Bill Lawrence). Miller also popped up in 2018's underrated thriller Breaking In.
Aloma Wright (Laverne)
Aloma Wright has been pretty damn busy since leaving Scrubs, with recurring roles in Grey's Anatomy spin-off Private Practice and Suits.
She also appeared in more than 250 episodes of the soap Days of Our Lives from 2008 to 2015 and, most recently, she plays the grandmother in Nickelodeon sitcom Young Dylan, created by Tyler Perry, which was recently renewed for a second season.
Judy Reyes (Carla)
If there's an OG Scrubs star that you would have seen pop up in a TV show you're watching, it's likely to have been Judy Reyes.
Since 2010, she's had roles in iZombie, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Devious Maids, Jane the Virgin, Fresh Off the Boat, Succession, Search Party and Black-ish to name just a few of her numerous roles.
Eliza Coupe (Denise)
OK, so we're not going to completely ignore the terrible rebooted season, but we're mostly including Eliza Coupe as she joined Scrubs as angry Dr Denise in the eighth season and continued as one of the main roles in the reboot.
Since then, she has remained a regular in the TV world. She landed one of the main roles in the underrated sitcom Happy Endings, and has since had regular appearances in various shows including The Mindy Project, Future Man, Quantico, Benched and House of Lies.
Neil Flynn (Janitor)
Pretty much the second that Scrubs ended, Neil Flynn landed a main role in another sitcom, The Middle, which wrapped up its nine-season run in 2018.
Flynn has also had one-off appearances in Key and Peele and Bob's Burgers among others, and had a main role in another sitcom, Abby's, which didn't have the staying power of Scrubs or The Middle and was cancelled after one season.
Sarah Chalke (Elliot)
The Roseanne favourite's biggest role to date was JD's on-off sparring partner Elliot. Since then, she played Ted's almost-wife Stella in How I Met Your Mother, Beth in the adult animated series Rick and Morty and a recurring role in... you guessed it... Cougar Town.
Most recently, Chalke starred with Katherine Heigl in Netflix's Firefly Lane and has a lead role as Gina Jabowski in Paradise PD, another Netflix hit.
Donald Faison (Turk)
We already loved Donald Faison for Clueless and then he bettered it as one half of TV's greatest bromance.
He's had various roles since Scrubs, including a lot of voice work for the likes of Robot Chicken and TRON: Uprising, another main sitcom role in The Exes, and movie roles such as Kick-Ass 2, The Wave and Wish I Was Here, which reunited him with Zach Braff.
Talking of reuniting with Braff, the duo launched their podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends in March 2020 where they share their stories of working on the show, rewatch the series together and chat to their fellow cast members.
Zach Braff (JD)
During his Scrubs era, Zach had become one of the rising stars of TV and Hollywood in general, thanks to playing JD and writing, directing and starring in his critically acclaimed cult movie Garden State.
He's continued to direct both movies (Wish I Was Here, Going in Style) and episodes of TV shows (Ted Lasso, Alex, Inc), as well as writing and starring in the play All New People, alongside other theatre work.
Braff will be seen later this year in The Comeback Trail with Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro and Tommy Lee Jones.
Scrubs is available to watch on Disney+.
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