Marina Squerciati plays flight attendant-turned-intelligence officer Kim Burgess on “Chicago P.D.,” a compassionate officer. Burgess endures much on the job –- romantic drama with fellow officer Adam Ruzek (Patrick Flueger), gunshot wounds, and kidnappings. Yet, she always manages to overcome her obstacles. Squerciati has played the character since the first season of the show, but her acting career was almost derailed before it even really began.
On an episode of the HypochondriActor podcast with Sean Hayes and Dr. Priyanka Wali, the actor revealed a medical emergency she experienced in college that almost kept her from an important audition. When Squerciati was a theater student at Northwestern University, a high fever sent her to the hospital. Squerciati told Hayes and Wali that while in the hospital, she suffered from a botched spinal tap that caused a blinding headache, and she passed out from the pain.
Despite this, Squerciati had an audition with an agent in New York that she refused to miss. “There’s this thing at Northwestern,” she explained. “They pick the top four female and four male actors to take them to New York, audition for agents, and basically sort of set you up on this platform.” Her mother came to visit her at the hospital — and ended up busting her out. “My mom had flown in because they were so scared about my condition, and I was like, I cannot miss this. I cannot. So my mom got this hospital tray and we went.”
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