Grey’s Anatomy

Having recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of its premiere , Grey ’s Anatomyhas for sure employed many player across its over 400 episodes , includingJeffrey Dean Morgan . Morgan appeared on the show in the former year , back when many OG mold members , include Katherine Heigl and Sandra Oh , were still part of the series . Now in its 21st time of year , the roll attend very different , withMeredith Grey actress Ellen Pompeo stepping away fromGrey ’s Anatomyto direction on other undertaking . However , there were plentitude of player who did n’t want to leave the medical dramatic event .

One of those is Morgan . Of course , most of us know andlove Morgan for his roleasThe Walking Dead ’s villain - turned - antihero Negan , who he continues to play inTWDspinoffDead City . Morgan has also play dead CIA police officer Joe Kessler inThe Boysand Winchester paterfamilias John inSupernatural . But while he may have find the most success in horror and illusion shows , Morgan ’s also proven his romantic chops , including playing Alicia Florrick ’s love interest Jason Crouse inThe Good Wife . However , his most famous romantic role isGrey ’s Anatomy ’s Denny Duquette — which Morgan was desperate to hang onto .

Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Denny Duquette Died Of A Stroke In Grey’s Anatomy Season 2

He Proposed To Izzie Stevens Before His Death

ThoughGrey ’s Anatomyhas had a ton of distressing patient role deaths , perhaps the most heartbreaking is the destruction of Denny Duquette in season 2 , sequence 27 , " fall behind My organized religion " . After Denny , who suffered from viral cardiomyopathy , came to the hospital for a philia transplant , he met and strike for Izzie Stevens ( Katherine Heigl ) . In a despairing tender to get Denny the transplant he need , Izzie made the wild conclusion to tailor his LVAD telegram . Her gamble paid off , or so it would look , and Denny was give his heart transplant .

Perhaps the most famous medical play of all time , Grey ’s Anatomy has already enjoy a 20 - plus - year run on the atmosphere , and it continues into season 22 .

With Denny seemingly in the readable , he advise to Izzie , and she take over . But , as we get laid , happily ever after was never in the cards for earnest Denny and Izzie . before long after the proposal , Denny receive a fit of pain in the neck , andquickly succumbs to a disastrous fortuity from a line of descent coagulum . After over 20 seasons ofGrey ’s Anatomy , the image of a devastated and shock Izzie in her prom dress , lying next to Denny ’s organic structure , will live rip - free in our minds .

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Morgan Begged Shonda Rhimes Not To Kill Him Off Grey’s

He Briefly Returned In The Form Of Izzie’s Hallucinations

In an instalment of the popular YouTube talk showHot Ones , Jeffrey Dean Morgan opened up about hisGrey ’s Anatomy Death . Morgan told host Sean Evans that he was no stranger to being vote down off a project , and in fact , the sheer volume of the actor ’s character reference Death was a die hard jest between him and his father . However , when he saw the writing on the rampart for Denny Duquette , Morgan was adamant about wanting to remain part of theGrey’sfamily . He said ,

Grey ’s AnatomyI sleep together was something exceptional . That ’s the one metre I pick up my death come and was assay everything I could do to get out of that death . That character Denny and that love story with Izzie kind of have the domain by tempest . I knew how f**king prosperous I was to be there , andI was like , ' Please do n’t belt down me ! I will do anything ! ' … and I did , I did . I beg her [ Shonda Rhimes ] .

Whether it was Morgan ’s pleading , his popularity withGrey’sfans , or a combination of both , Morgan issue forth back as Denny , despite his character being dead . He register up in time of year 3 in the " afterlife " with Meredith following in her drowning , and , more notably , Morgan ’s part was part of a controversial season 5 plotline whenDenny appeared in Izzie ’s hallucinationsbrought on by her cancer . That would be the end of theGrey ’s Anatomyline for Morgan , with his last sequence being time of year 5 ’s " Here ’s to Future Days " .

Denny looking sad in Grey’s Anatomy

However , Morgan ’s Denny Duquette role seek to be a boon for the actor , as it chair to one of his big breakout problem as the Comedian in 2009’sWatchmen . Morgan unwrap , " That ’s what convert my life . Being Denny , where I never got out of bed , is why Zack Snyder hired me to be the Comedian . " So , even though Jeffrey Dean Morgan may have need to delay onGrey ’s Anatomya little longer , it attend like his calling is doing just okay .

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Denny Duquette flirts with Izzie after waking up from a coma in Grey’s Anatomy

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