Who’s in The Good Doctor Season 7 Cast?
Will Glassman retire from surgery? What will happen to Andrews? Did Danny really leave San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital? With the amount of unanswered questions in Season 6’s finale, it’s understandable why fans are so interested in The Good Doctor Season 7 cast and which cast members are coming back and leaving.
The Good Doctor is ABC’s medical drama series following Shaun Murphy, a young autistic surgeon from the small city of Casper, Wyoming, who relocates to San Jose, California, to work at the prestigious San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital, where his near-photographic recall and ability to note minute changes and details prove useful to the hospital’s medical team. The series premiered in 2017 and is based on the 2013 South Korean series of the same name.
In an interview with The West Australian in 2018, Freddie Highmore, who plays Dr. Shaun Murphy, revealed that he wasn’t aware exactly how successful The Good Doctor due to the “bubble” he films in.
“It’s obviously lovely that it’s been so well received both in America and elsewhere around the world, but it’s sort of funny for most of us who work on the show because we don’t quite have an awareness of its wider success,” he said.
He continued, “It’s very much this lovely bubble that we work in and telling these small intimate stories on a daily basis from our little hospital set on the outskirts of Vancouver, so it’s funny when you leave that bubble and become aware that there are people who are watching the show.”
While The Good Doctor is filled with triumphs, that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been heartbreak too. As fans know, anything can happen at San Jose St. Bonaventure Hospital. So who’s in The Good Doctor Season 7 cast? Read on for what we know about which cast members are coming back and leaving.
Dr. Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore)
Is Shaun Murphy coming back for The Good Doctor Season 7? The answer is likely. Freddie Highmore — who has played Dr. Shaun Murphy since Season 1 of The Good Doctor — hasn’t confirmed if he’s leaving or coming back for Season 7. However, there are no major clues storyline-wise that he’s leaving.
In The Good Doctor Season 6 finale, “Love’s Labor,” Shaun and his wife, Lea Dilallo, welcome their first child together, a son named Steven Aaron Murphy, which hinted that there’s more story to tell about Shaun in Season 7.
“First of all, it’s just kind of mad that we’ve arrived at the point where he is, indeed, a father,” Highmore told Parade in May 2023 after The Good Doctor Season 6 finale. “I know that [co-creator] David Shore had in his mind the idea that Shaun being a father could at some point be the end of the whole show. It made me quite nostalgic filming that episode, looking back at the journey that he’d been on and everything he’s gone through. And I guess at the same time, it also makes you look towards the future, because it feels like this whole new reinvention of who he is.”
He continued, “I’m not a father myself, but I can only imagine the way in which it will shake Shaun’s world and change him fundamentally as a person. So it will be really exciting in Season 7 to get to explore probably the biggest change in Shaun that we’ve ever had.”
Highmore also teased how Shaun’s tidy and orderly personality will be tested with his baby in The Good Doctor Season 7. “I certainly think that will play into the next season,” he said. “Obviously, it’s this joyous beautiful moment for them in the finale, getting to see Shaun and Lea in one of the most magical moments—if not the most magical moment—that humans can go through. I feel like for now it’s [about] the beauty, the hugeness of it. And, of course, that’s tinged with a slight bittersweet sense, since Glassman isn’t actually there to celebrate with them.”
He continued, “But as you say, I think moving forward, it won’t be a smooth ride. It’s not just this beautiful journey of the two of them holding their baby very sweetly and lovingly forevermore. It’s certainly going to be a challenge for both of them individually and as a couple. What it’s like on a daily, hourly basis to have a baby…I think those things can form the basis of entire episodes for Shaun, because those small steps can be so difficult and challenging and interesting to watch and go through.”
