Who plays gay surgeon Niko Kim on Grey's Anatomy? Alex Landi is ready for romance and surgery

MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON
ALEX LANDI: 10 THGS ABOUT THE FIRST ASIAN GAY MALE DOCTOR ON GREY’S ANATOMY
JAKE BORELLI ON WHY GREY'S ANATOMY'S GAY BLOOD BAN STORY IS PERSONAL
'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GREY'S ANATOMY JT CAST ITS FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON?
WHO PLAYS GAY SURGEON NIKO KIM ON GREY’S ANATOMY? ALEX LANDI IS READY FOR ROMANCE AND SURGERY

MEET ALEX LANDI, THE ACTOR PLAYG GREY'S ANATOMY'S FIRST GAY MALE SURGEON

The actor, who me out publicly around the same time as his character Levi a few years ago, is proud the show will she a light on the discrimatory polici around gay men and sex. * gay asian guy grey's anatomy *

The half-Korean, half-Italian actor, who joed the show s 15th season as the seri’ first proment gay male character, told Travis Mills on Beats 1 on Apple Mic: “I’m jt glad that I n give everyone a voice. Landi’s character on Grey’s Anatomy has bee part of the show’s first major male gay romance.

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Gay marriage fally beme legal jt 10 years ago Washgton, 2012, one year after this episo aired. "Asians are reprented, I thk, by ls than three percent entertament, LGBTQ beg ls than 1 percent, so for them to be both of those tegori to one role is super special, and I'm so happy that I n take that on, " Landi said (via Gay Tim).

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And now we're at the very begng of a new gay relatnship. Here, the actor and those who know him reveal the story of the man behd Grey's Anatomy's first openly gay male surgeon.

Ni Kim the show’s first gay male doctor but he’s also s first Asian male surgeon. Why is the only male Asian a gay guy (nothg wrong wh that, but why is the only guy on the show? The beloved character, who me out as gay at the same time Jake Borelli, who portrays him, me out publicly, worked amid the trma of early COVID-19 last season, and suffered full-on burnout after losg his first patient unr the hospal's new trag method this season.

But for Borelli, a gay blood ban story that volv Levi Grey's Anatomy's 18th season fale (also the show's whoppg 400th episo), is eply personal. "In preparg for the episo and talkg to people about this, I found that pecially om the straight muny, that there's this ia that oh, well, the blood ban is now no longer a lifetime blood ban for gay men, " he adds. "You're fe as long as you don't have sex, as long as you don't partake sodomy, or if you don't get married, " Borelli says of ndnal acceptance of gay and bi men.

'GREY'S ANATOMY' ACTOR JAKE BORELLI'S CHARACTER ME OUT AS GAY. THEN HE DID TOO.

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Alex Landi secured not only the role of a lifetime when he joed the st of Grey's Anatomy, he also took on a great long-nng medil drama's newt addn to the st signed to recur Season 15 as Ni Kim, the first gay male surgeon of Asian scent to work at Grey Sloan fans were first troduced to the doctor as a risg star the orthopedic surgery field, Ni has bee a more multifaceted character, due part to his romantic relatnship wh surgil tern Levi Schmt (Jake Borelli) recently opened to exclively about his groundbreakg role on Grey's Anatomy, as well as how life has changed sce jog the st.

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