"later, in season seven's 15th episode, ""Bombshells"", House reacts to the news that Cuddy possibly has kidney cancer by taking Vicodin, and his addiction recurs. Throughout ""House""s run, six of the main actors have received star billing. All of them play doctors who work at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), the title character, heads the Department of Diagnostic Medicine. House describes himself as ""a board-certified diagnostician with a double specialty of infectious disease and nephrology"". Dr. James Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), House's one true friend, is the head of the Department of"
"Gregory House Gregory House, M.D. (born 1959) is the title character of the American medical drama series ""House"". Created by David Shore and portrayed by English actor Hugh Laurie, he leads a team of diagnosticians as the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey. House's character has been described as a misanthrope, cynic, narcissist, and curmudgeon, the last of which was named one of the top television words of 2005 in honor of the character. House is the only character to appear in all 177 episodes and, except for Wilson's brief appearance, is"
"two Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Television Series – Drama, and two TCA Awards for Individual Achievement in Drama. Laurie has also earned a total of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Gregory House Gregory House, M.D. (born 1959) is the title character of the American medical drama series ""House"". Created by David Shore and portrayed by English actor Hugh Laurie, he leads a team of diagnosticians as the Head of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey."
"of absence for most of season seven, and her position is filled by medical student Martha M. Masters (Amber Tamblyn). Cuddy and Masters depart before season eight; Foreman becomes the new Dean of Medicine, while Dr. Jessica Adams (Odette Annable) and Dr. Chi Park (Charlyne Yi) join House's team. ""House"" was among the top ten series in the United States from its second through fourth seasons. Distributed to 66 countries, ""House"" was the most-watched television program in the world in 2008. The show received numerous awards, including five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Peabody Award, and nine"
"she wanted the character to return to the show. Linda Stasi of ""The New York Post"" said that Dr. House's relationship with Lucas Douglas (Michael Weston), who temporarily replaced Wilson, was far more natural than House's relationship with Wilson. Critics from ""TV Guide"", ""Entertainment Weekly"", Blog Critics and ""USA Today"", all found Leonard's performance in the season 4 finale worthy of an Emmy Award. James Wilson (House) Dr. James Evan Wilson, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama ""House"". He is played by Robert Sean Leonard. The character first appears in the show's pilot episode when he"
"House she loves him. They kiss and agree to try being a couple. Throughout season seven, House and Cuddy try to make their relationship work. However, in the finale of season seven, House drives his car into Cuddy's living room in anger and their relationship effectively ends. House's original team of diagnosticians consists of Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps), a neurologist; Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), an intensivist; and Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), an immunologist. In the season-three episode ""Family"", Foreman announces his resignation, telling House, ""I don't want to turn into you"". During the season finale, House tells"
"the first three seasons, House's diagnostic team consists of Dr. Robert Chase (Jesse Spencer), Dr. Allison Cameron (Jennifer Morrison), and Dr. Eric Foreman (Omar Epps). At the end of the third season, this team disbands. Rejoined by Foreman, House gradually selects three new team members: Dr. Remy ""Thirteen"" Hadley (Olivia Wilde), Dr. Chris Taub (Peter Jacobson), and Dr. Lawrence Kutner (Kal Penn). Meanwhile, Chase and Cameron continue to appear in different roles at the hospital. Kutner dies late in season five; early in season six, Cameron departs the hospital, and Chase returns to the diagnostic team. Thirteen takes a leave"
"as House explains, human contact is what brought him there to begin with. In the end, House cures the man, but not without punishment from the parole board. ""Twenty Vicodin"", the eighth season premiere of ""House"", was written by Peter Blake. It debuted actress Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams, a doctor working at the prison where Dr. House is incarcerated. David Shore stated that it was a challenge for him to appropriately punish House for the deed in the season 7 finale without turning the series into a prison show or changing House's characteristics (while changing the environment around"
"Pilot (House) ""Pilot"", also known as ""Everybody Lies"", is the first episode of the U.S. television series ""House"". The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It introduces the character of Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie)—a maverick antisocial doctor—and his team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. The episode features House's attempts to diagnose a kindergarten teacher after she collapses in class. ""House"" was created by David Shore, who got the idea for the misanthropic title character from a doctor's visit. Initially, producer Bryan Singer wanted an American to play"
"team. In October 2007, he was confirmed as a regular on the show. He made a guest appearance as Alan on an episode of the USA Network's ""Royal Pains"". Peter Jacobson Peter Jacobson (born March 24, 1965) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series ""House"". He also starred on the USA Network science fiction drama ""Colony"" as former Proxy Snyder. Jacobson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lynn Straus and news anchor Walter Jacobson. His family is Jewish and coming from Russia, Ukraine"
"James Wilson (House) Dr. James Evan Wilson, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama ""House"". He is played by Robert Sean Leonard. The character first appears in the show's pilot episode when he introduces a medical case to Dr. Gregory House. Wilson is Dr. House's only true friend, and frequently provides him with consultations and aid. Wilson is the head of the Department of Oncology at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. During the show's run, the characters of House and Wilson have been compared to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Wilson's portrayer, Robert Sean Leonard, has stated that his"
"Jamie Elman, Peter Weller, Skylar Astin, Patrick Stump and James LeGros. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> House (season 8) The eighth and final season of ""House"" was ordered on May 10, 2011. It premiered on October 3, 2011. It was the only season not to feature Lisa Edelstein as Dr. Lisa Cuddy. Olivia Wilde (Dr. Remy ""Thirteen"" Hadley) also left the show after the third episode in order to further her film career, although she returned at the end of the series. On January 8, 2012, Kevin Reilly (Fox President of Entertainment) stated that Fox had been ""avoiding"" a decision on the fate of"
"Michael Tritter Detective Michael Tritter is a recurring fictional character in the medical drama series ""House"", portrayed by David Morse. He is the main antagonist of the third season, which ran between 2006 and 2007. Tritter is a police detective, who tries to get Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) to apologize for leaving him in an examination room with a thermometer in his rectum. After House refuses to apologize, Tritter researches House's background and discovers his Vicodin addiction. Tritter turns people close to House against him and forces House to go to rehab. When the case ultimately comes to court,"
"Selfish (House) ""Selfish"" is the second episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama ""House"". It aired on September 27, 2010. House (Hugh Laurie) treats a patient with sickle cell trait, while dealing with the effects of his burgeoning relationship with Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein) on his work. The patient of the week is Della Carr, an active and seemingly healthy teenager, who suddenly collapses with heart arrhythmia at a charity function for congenital muscular dystrophy, which her brother Hugo suffers from. At the hospital, she develops further symptoms of kidney failure and bleeding lung, which requires her"
"Lisa Edelstein Lisa Edelstein (; born May 21, 1966) is an American actress and playwright. Edelstein is known for playing Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the Fox medical drama series ""House"". Between 2014 and 2018, she starred as Abby McCarthy in the Bravo series ""Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce"". Edelstein was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Bonnie and Alvin Edelstein. Her father is a pediatrician at Chilton Memorial Hospital (since retired). The youngest of three children in a Jewish family, she was raised in Wayne, New Jersey, and attended Wayne Valley High School, graduating in 1984. At 16, Edelstein was a cheerleader"
"minutes earned back the price of TiVo"". James Chamberlin stated that he never expected Edelstein to do a strip tease, although he had hoped it. Lisa Cuddy was elected TV's Most Crushworthy Female Doctor over Remy ""Thirteen"" Hadley in a poll held by ""Zap2it"". Lisa Cuddy Lisa Cuddy, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama ""House"". She is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy was the Dean of Medicine of the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. Cuddy quit her job after the events of season seven's finale ""Moving On"". Cuddy's job title in ""House"" is Dean"
"Peter Jacobson Peter Jacobson (born March 24, 1965) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dr. Chris Taub on the Fox medical drama series ""House"". He also starred on the USA Network science fiction drama ""Colony"" as former Proxy Snyder. Jacobson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Lynn Straus and news anchor Walter Jacobson. His family is Jewish and coming from Russia, Ukraine and maybe Lithuania. He is a 1987 graduate of Brown University. Jacobson also graduated from the Juilliard School, where he was a member of the drama division's Group 20"
"Living the Dream (House) ""Living the Dream"" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of ""House"", and aired on May 5, 2008. House (Hugh Laurie) is convinced that one of the actors on his favorite soap opera ""Prescription: Passion"" (guest star Jason Lewis) has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television. House decides to intervene, kidnaps the actor and convinces him to run a test, but both the actor and House’s own team dismiss House’s assessment and do not believe there is anything wrong with him. However, the actor develops more symptoms: His leg goes numb"
"2013. The couple have two children: a son born in 2014, and a daughter born in 2016. Olivia Wilde Olivia Jane Cockburn (born March 10, 1984), known professionally as Olivia Wilde, is an American actress, model, producer, director and activist. She is known for her role as Dr. Remy ""Thirteen"" Hadley on the medical-drama television series ""House"" (2007–2012), and her roles in the films ""Conversations with Other Women"" (2005), ""Alpha Dog"" (2007), """" (2010), ""Cowboys & Aliens"" (2011), ""Butter"" (2011), ""Drinking Buddies"" (2013), ""The Incredible Burt Wonderstone"" (2013), ""Rush"" (2013), ""Her"" (2013), ""The Lazarus Effect"" (2015), ""Love the Coopers"" (2015),"
"Broken (House) ""Broken"" is the title for the first episode of the sixth season of the television series ""House"". It is a two-part season premiere, being first broadcast on Fox on September 21, 2009. The narrative follows series protagonist Dr. Gregory House (Hugh Laurie) as he overcomes his Vicodin addiction and psychological problems at Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital. Receiving season-high ratings, the episode garnered positive reviews from critics. The performance of Hugh Laurie was also applauded. House awakens in the Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital after suffering through the painful effects of Vicodin withdrawal. He asks to leave knowing that they legally cannot"
"premiere episode was generally well received. Critics reacted positively to the character of House; Tom Shales of ""The Washington Post"" called him ""the most electrifying character to hit television in years"". ""The New York Magazine"" called the series ""medical TV at its most satisfying and basic"", and stated that the cast consisted of ""<nowiki>[professional]</nowiki> actors playing doctors who come to care about their patients"", while ""The Boston Globe""s Matthew Gilbert appreciated that the episode did not sugarcoat the flaws of the characters to assuage viewers' fears about ""HMO factories"". Alessandra Stanley of ""The New York Times"" said that though the"
"Bryan Cranston of AMC's ""Breaking Bad"". Dr. Gregory House is getting a lap dance in a strip club. Drunk, dazed, and suffering from a head wound, House has distorted vision and an overwhelming feeling that ""somebody's going to die"". When he leaves the club, he sees that the bus he was travelling on crashed. Back at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, House is diagnosed with a concussion and post-traumatic retrograde amnesia and orders his team to check the bus driver for a possible seizure that precipitated the crash. Chase (Jesse Spencer) performs hypnosis on House to stimulate his memory; during this, House"
"credits the accent to ""a misspent youth [watching] too much TV and too many movies"". Although locally better-known actors such as Denis Leary, David Cross, Rob Morrow, and Patrick Dempsey were considered for the part, Shore, Jacobs, and Attanasio were as impressed as Singer and cast Laurie as House. Laurie later revealed that he initially thought the show's central character was Dr. James Wilson. He assumed that House was a supporting part, due to the nature of the character, until he received the full script of the pilot episode. Laurie, the son of medical doctor Ran Laurie, said he felt"
"specialties in Intensive Care and Cardiology; he also took a residency in Neurosurgery at Melbourne Hospital, although he never became a board certified neurosurgeon. When his agent suggested that Spencer audition for the role of Chase, he expected ""House"" to be a medical drama similar to ""General Hospital"". However, he was impressed with the show once his agent showed him the scripts, and found out that Bryan Singer was producing the show. The character of Robert Chase was originally intended to be American, but was later changed to an Englishman: after taking the role, Spencer, who is Australian, persuaded the"
"House, but British actor Hugh Laurie's audition convinced him that a foreign actor could play the role. Shore wrote House as a character with parallels to Sherlock Holmes—both are drug users, blunt, and close to being friendless. The show's producers wanted House handicapped in some way and gave the character a damaged leg arising from an improper diagnosis. The episode received generally positive reviews; the character of House was widely noted as a unique aspect of the episode and series, though some reviewers believed that such a cruel character would not be tolerated in real life. Other complaints with the"
"and for ""cases fit for a medical Sherlock Holmes"", which helped make ""House"" ""the most distinctive new doctor drama in a decade"". The American Film Institute (AFI), included ""House"" in its 2005 list of 10 Television Programs of the Year. In 2011, ""House"" won four People's Choice Awards: favorite TV drama; favorite dramatic actor and actress for Laurie and Edelstein; and favorite TV doctor. Laurie won the Screen Actors Guild's award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series in both 2007 and 2009. Writer Lawrence Kaplow won a Writers Guild of America Award in 2006 for"
"Corey Stoll Corey Daniel Stoll (born March 14, 1976) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Ephraim Goodweather on the American television horror/suspense series ""The Strain"" on the FX network, as well as Congressman Peter Russo in ""House of Cards"", for which he received a Golden Globe nomination in 2013. He was a regular cast member on the NBC drama series """" (2010–2011), and portrayed the villain Darren Cross in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film ""Ant-Man"" (2015). Other notable roles include a 2004 Off-Broadway performance of ""Intimate Apparel"", portraying Ernest Hemingway in the 2011 romantic"
"share in the 18–49 demographic, which was the highest score of the night. James Chamberlin of IGN was pleased to see Cameron get more screentime. Sarah Collins of North by Northwestern felt the episode proved that House is a ""whack job."" Living the Dream (House) ""Living the Dream"" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of ""House"", and aired on May 5, 2008. House (Hugh Laurie) is convinced that one of the actors on his favorite soap opera ""Prescription: Passion"" (guest star Jason Lewis) has a serious medical condition after observing his symptoms on television. House decides to intervene,"
"the television show ""Scrubs"". One book-length study of the series finds a powerful kinship between House and another famous TV doctor, Hawkeye Pierce of ""M*A*S*H"". Laurie's performance in the role has been widely praised. The ""San Francisco Chronicle""s Goodman called him ""a wonder to behold"" and ""about the only reason to watch ""House"""". Gabrielle Donnelly of the ""Daily Mail"" said that because of Laurie's complex personality, he was ""perfectly cast"" in the title role. Critics have also reacted positively to the show's original supporting cast, which the ""Post""s Shales called a ""first-rate ensemble"". Leonard's portrayal of Dr. Wilson has been"
"for ""Pilot"" and the first season of ""House"", was nominated in the 2005 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Music Composition for the episode. Shore received a Humanitas Prize nomination for writing the episode, but lost out to John Wells, who wrote the episode of ""The West Wing"" entitled ""NSF Thurmont"". Pilot (House) ""Pilot"", also known as ""Everybody Lies"", is the first episode of the U.S. television series ""House"". The episode premiered on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. It introduces the character of Dr. Gregory House (played by Hugh Laurie)—a maverick antisocial doctor—and his team of diagnosticians at the"
"coincides with Sherlock Holmes' adversary, Professor James Moriarty; likewise, in the fifth season, Wilson uses Irene Adler as the name for an imaginary love interest of House, the same name as the only female adversary Holmes ever encountered. Throughout the series' run, the character received positive reviews. Tom Shales of ""The Washington Post"" called House ""the most electrifying character to hit television in years"". House was featured on several best lists. In 2008, House was voted by BuddyTV second sexiest TV doctor ever, behind Dr. Doug Ross (George Clooney) from ""ER"". TV Overmind named House the best TV character of"
"Allison Cameron Allison Cameron, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama ""House"", portrayed by American actress Jennifer Morrison. An immunologist, Cameron was a member of Dr. Gregory House's team of handpicked specialists at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital's Department of Diagnostic Medicine. She returned for the final episode of the series, ""Everybody Dies"". Cameron was the only woman on House's initial diagnostic team. She is known for her honesty, sincerity, idealism and strong ethical center. Even so, she is not out of her depth teasing others, as she does when alone with Chase, telling him that women can have"
"Martha Masters (House) Martha M. Masters is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama television series ""House"". Masters is portrayed by American actress Amber Tamblyn. She appears in a multi-episode arc of season 7, and very briefly in the series finale, ""Everybody Dies"". After graduating from high school at the age of 15, Martha Masters obtained doctorate degrees in both applied math and art history. In the episode ""Office Politics"", Dr. Lisa Cuddy hires Masters, a medical student, for the position on Dr. House's diagnostic team left vacant by Thirteen. House once described Masters as having ""nervous, anxious energy"""