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Kerry Weaver
Kerry Weaver is a fictional character, a physician, in the NBC television series ER. Dr. Weaver first appears as a recurring character in the second-season episode "Welcome Back, Carter!", which aired on September 21, 1995. Dr. Weaver is portrayed by Laura Innes, who was promoted to the role of series regular beginning with the third-season episode "Dr. Carter, I Presume", which aired on September 26, 1996. Innes made her last regular appearance in the thirteenth-season episode "A House Divided", which aired on January 11, 2007.
During the series' fifteenth season, Innes made guest appearances in the episodes "Heal Thyself", which aired on November 13, 2008, and the series finale, "And in the End...", which aired on April 2, 2009.
Very little of Weaver’s background is revealed to the audience in her early episodes. The character exhibits a limp in her gait, which is aided by the use of a forearm crutch. This was later revealed to be caused by congenital hip dysplasia in episode 14 of season 11, in addition to the fact that she had lived for a period in Africa.
Weaver arrives at County General as Chief Resident, and later becomes an attending physician, is promoted to Chief of Emergency Medicine, and finally becomes the Hospital Chief of Staff. She is ambitious, craves authority, and tends to be excessively bureaucratic in her approach. Her administrative position often requires her to make unpleasant decisions that draw hostility from her fellow physicians, as when she fires Jeanie Boulet in Season 4. However, she also engages in administrative politics to protect herself, sometimes at the expense of others. Although an excellent physician, she is portrayed as the villain in many episodes. She is a dynamic character who struggles with which choice is the right one to make.
Although Weaver has been involved in some heterosexual relationships, she eventually comes out as a lesbian. Her sexual orientation is a key point in some episodes, particularly when she fights in court to keep her son, Henry. She was included in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters.
During Innes' first five seasons on the show, little was revealed about the details of Weaver's background which would later become some of her defining traits: her sexual orientation, political beliefs, and even the precise nature of her disability. She kept her personal details largely private to prevent discrimination and protect her career. She was also unable to fully confront internalized homophobia and regretted that she never knew her birth parents.
When she was first hired by Mark Greene as chief resident in 1995 most ER staff (who disliked her pedantry, fixation on her own authority, and her tendency to micro-manage) were unhappy. Early in her position, she regularly clashed with Doug Ross and Susan Lewis. In addition, her obsession with bureaucratic policies irritated and confused the entire staff (in one episode, Jerry, the desk clerk, brought the staff a cake to celebrate her day off). In Season 3 Weaver became an ER attending physician alongside Greene, with whom she began to compete to curry favor with hospital leadership. As a result, Weaver was not understood beyond her career ambitions and bureaucratic obsessions.
Weaver began to show her underlying kindness and sensitivity when she supported Jeanie Boulet, a physician assistant who contracted HIV from her adulterous husband. Boulet fought to keep her job and dignity in the face of the liability of an HIV-positive employee in the ER. Weaver was the first person in a position of power to side with Boulet, and the two remained friends until Jeanie's budget-related firing and her successful PR pressure campaign to be reinstated. They later reconciled when Jeanie left the ER.
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Kerry Weaver
Kerry Weaver is a fictional character, a physician, in the NBC television series ER. Dr. Weaver first appears as a recurring character in the second-season episode "Welcome Back, Carter!", which aired on September 21, 1995. Dr. Weaver is portrayed by Laura Innes, who was promoted to the role of series regular beginning with the third-season episode "Dr. Carter, I Presume", which aired on September 26, 1996. Innes made her last regular appearance in the thirteenth-season episode "A House Divided", which aired on January 11, 2007.
During the series' fifteenth season, Innes made guest appearances in the episodes "Heal Thyself", which aired on November 13, 2008, and the series finale, "And in the End...", which aired on April 2, 2009.
Very little of Weaver’s background is revealed to the audience in her early episodes. The character exhibits a limp in her gait, which is aided by the use of a forearm crutch. This was later revealed to be caused by congenital hip dysplasia in episode 14 of season 11, in addition to the fact that she had lived for a period in Africa.
Weaver arrives at County General as Chief Resident, and later becomes an attending physician, is promoted to Chief of Emergency Medicine, and finally becomes the Hospital Chief of Staff. She is ambitious, craves authority, and tends to be excessively bureaucratic in her approach. Her administrative position often requires her to make unpleasant decisions that draw hostility from her fellow physicians, as when she fires Jeanie Boulet in Season 4. However, she also engages in administrative politics to protect herself, sometimes at the expense of others. Although an excellent physician, she is portrayed as the villain in many episodes. She is a dynamic character who struggles with which choice is the right one to make.
Although Weaver has been involved in some heterosexual relationships, she eventually comes out as a lesbian. Her sexual orientation is a key point in some episodes, particularly when she fights in court to keep her son, Henry. She was included in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Lesbian and Bisexual Characters.
During Innes' first five seasons on the show, little was revealed about the details of Weaver's background which would later become some of her defining traits: her sexual orientation, political beliefs, and even the precise nature of her disability. She kept her personal details largely private to prevent discrimination and protect her career. She was also unable to fully confront internalized homophobia and regretted that she never knew her birth parents.
When she was first hired by Mark Greene as chief resident in 1995 most ER staff (who disliked her pedantry, fixation on her own authority, and her tendency to micro-manage) were unhappy. Early in her position, she regularly clashed with Doug Ross and Susan Lewis. In addition, her obsession with bureaucratic policies irritated and confused the entire staff (in one episode, Jerry, the desk clerk, brought the staff a cake to celebrate her day off). In Season 3 Weaver became an ER attending physician alongside Greene, with whom she began to compete to curry favor with hospital leadership. As a result, Weaver was not understood beyond her career ambitions and bureaucratic obsessions.
Weaver began to show her underlying kindness and sensitivity when she supported Jeanie Boulet, a physician assistant who contracted HIV from her adulterous husband. Boulet fought to keep her job and dignity in the face of the liability of an HIV-positive employee in the ER. Weaver was the first person in a position of power to side with Boulet, and the two remained friends until Jeanie's budget-related firing and her successful PR pressure campaign to be reinstated. They later reconciled when Jeanie left the ER.