EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of surgical intern Dr. Devi on the upcoming season of The Resident. Anuja Joshi, who recurred as the character in Season 4, has been promoted to series regular for Season 5 of the Fox medical drama.
Joshi’s Dr. Leela Devi is a surgical intern at Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. Despite her struggles with dyslexia, she continues to prove herself as a rock star. Season 5 also promises more romance between Leela and Dr. Devon Pravesh (Manish Dayal), after their highly anticipated kiss in the season four finale, we hear.
Anuja Joshi Kewal Chholak Created by Amy Holden Jones, Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi, The Resident follows a group of doctors at Chastain Memorial Hospital, as they face personal and professional challenges on a daily basis. Matt Czuchry, VanCamp, Bruce Greenwood, Dayal, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Jane Leeves. Morris Chestnut will recur in Season 5.
The Resident is produced by 20th Television. The series’ executive producers include Todd Harthan, Andrew Chapman, Peter Elkoff, Amy Holden Jones, Rob Corn, Antoine Fuqua, Oly Obst and Marc Halsey.
Indian-American actress Joshi was the lead of the Hello Mini trilogy web series, produced by Rose Films and Applause Entertainment. She also was one of the leads in season 2 of Ekta Kapoor’s hit franchise Broken But Beautiful. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, during her time in New York, Joshi appeared in the stage adaptations of Julie Taymor’s The Transposed Heads and Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding. She’s repped by Suskin Management.
