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  1. Dr. Death (TV Series 2021–2023) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

    • Édgar Ramírez - Paolo Macchiarini. Édgar Ramírez portrays Paolo Macchiarini, a real-life Swiss-Italian surgeon who gets exposed for being a medical fraud.
    • Mandy Moore - Benita Alexander. Mandy Moore brings Benita Alexander to life in Dr. Death Season 2. Alexander is a journalist who gets romantically entangled with Dr. Paolo Macchiarini after she gets assigned to a special documentary involving the surgeon and regenerative medicine.
    • Luke Kirby - Dr. Nathan Gamelli. Dr. Nathan Gamelli (played by Luke Kirby) is Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's colleague who is not a fan of his claims about creating plastic organs for his patients.
    • Ashley Madekwe - Dr. Ana Lasbrey. Dr. Ana Lasbrey is one of the doctors who are eager to join Dr. Paolo Macchiarini's team after learning about his groundbreaking discovery.
    • Dr. Christopher Duntsch
    • Dr. Robert Henderson
    • Dr. Randall Kirby
    • Jerry Summers
    • Michelle Shughart

    Christopher Daniel Duntsch is a former neurosurgeon nicknamed Dr. Death for the murder of two of his patients and the maiming of 30 others while working at hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Described as brilliant by those who knew him before his crimes, Duntsch's medical license was revoked during his two-year reign of terror before his...

    The real Dr. Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin)was first made aware of Duntsch's appalling surgery attempts after one of his patients, Mrs. Efurd, had had multiple misplaced holes drilled in her spine by Duntsch. After his plea for Dr. Duntsch's immediate suspension fell on deaf ears, he teamed up with Dr. Randall Kirby to begin recording Duntsch's su...

    Next to Dr. Henderson, Dr. Randall Kirby was the other primary architect of Christopher Duntsch's downfall. Portrayed by Christian Slater as a comedic foil to SNL regular Alec Baldwin's stoic Dr. Henderson, the real Randall Kirby appears much more reserved. Kirby first became aware of Dr. Duntsch brutalizing his patients after assisting on surgery ...

    One of the most harrowing real-life accounts of this tale, Jerry Summers, was Christopher Duntsch's childhood friend and a staunch advocate of the doctor to a fault. Played by Dominic Burgess in the Peacock series, Summers allowed Duntsch to perform two cervical fusion surgeries on him, which left Summers paralyzed. Despite being robbed of his mobi...

    Michelle Lee Shughart (played in Dr. Death by AnnaSophia Robb) was a young assistant district attorney when she became involved in the Duntsch case. Praised for her handling of an incredibly complex topic, her successful integration of Kirby and Henderson into the prosecution paved the way for the successful conviction of Duntsch. Shughart is now a...

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    • Édgar Ramírez as Paolo Macchiarini. Édgar Ramírez plays Paolo Macchiarini, a.k.a. The so-called 'Miracle Man'. But this doctor is far from miraculous and fiction.
    • Mandy Moore as Benita Alexander. Mandy Moore plays Benita Alexander, the investigative journalist entangled with a slippery doctor. A versatile figure in the world of television production, Alexander serves as the Executive Producer/Showrunner for the true-crime series Crime Gone Viral, currently in its second season on Investigation Discovery.
    • Luke Kirby as Dr. Nathan Gamelli. Luke Kirby is set to play Dr. Nathan Gamelli, "a cardiovascular surgeon working at a world-class hospital in Sweden. He faces pressure after voicing doubts about Dr. Macchiarini’s groundbreaking surgeries.”
    • Ashley Madekwe as Dr. Ana Lasbrey. Ashley Madekwe plays Dr. Ana Lasbrey, “a doctor at the institute. She joins Macchiarini’s team, hoping to fast-track her career in stem cell research.”
  2. Season 2 follows “Miracle Man” Paolo Macchiarini, a charming surgeon renowned for his innovative operations. When investigative journalist Benita Alexander approaches him for a story, the line between personal and professional begins to blur, changing her life forever.

  3. With Joshua Jackson, Edgar Ramírez, Mandy Moore, Ashley Madekwe. An anthology series dramatizing the true stories of ambitious doctors whose medical malpractices led to disastrous consequences for those in their care.

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