A familiar face from How to Get Away With Murder is trading the courtroom for the operating room.
According to Variety , Karla Souza has landed a lead role in the upcoming Grey’s Anatomy spinoff set in West Texas.
For years, television viewers knew Souza as Laurel Castillo, an intern at a law firm run by powerful defense attorney and professor Annalise Keating (played by Viola Davis) in How to Get Away With Murder. The yet-to-be-named Grey’s spinoff will transform Souza into Dr. Carolina “Lina” Hall, described as “a haunted and cynical doctor who runs a medical center in a small town in West Texas.”
Souza’s involvement in the Grey’s universe is fitting given her ties to Shonda Rhimes and ABC. Rhimes, the original Grey’s Anatomy showrunner, exec produced How to Get Away With Murder, which called the American Broadcasting Company its home for six years.…