Stacy Warner
Encyclopedia
Stacy Warner is a fictional recurring character portrayed by Sela Ward
on the Fox Broadcasting Company
's medical drama
House
. She was in a relationship with Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie
), when he suffered an infarction
in his right leg during a game of golf. This was caused by a clotted aneurysm
in his thigh, which had led to an infarction that caused his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
. Regarding House's treatment, Stacy acted against House's wishes when he was put into a chemically induced coma
. She authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure by removing just the dead muscle, leaving House with a lesser, but serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive her and they broke up. The two meet again, five years later, at the end of season one; Stacy wants House to treat her husband, Mark. House correctly diagnoses Mark with acute intermittent porphyria
, and so he has to remain at the hospital for close monitoring. Stacy becomes the hospital's lawyer, and she and House grow closer together. When she is ultimately willing to leave Mark for him, House tells her to go back to Mark, which devastates her and causes her and Mark to leave the city.
When the writers of the show wrote "Three Stories", the first episode in which Stacy appeared, the first name they came up with to play the character was Sela Ward. Although Ward was not initially interested in portraying Stacy, she changed her mind after watching tapes of the show. While she was originally hired to appear in only two episodes of the first season, the chemistry between Ward and Laurie was strong enough to have her appear in seven more second season episodes. Stacy was received mostly positive by critics who considered her arc a "juicy subplot". .
graduate. Presumably ten years before the events of House, at a "Doctors vs. Lawyers" paintball
game, she met Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie
) with whom she started a romantic relationship. Five years later, during a game of golf, House suffered an infarction
in his right leg. He was admitted at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, but went misdiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior (House eventually diagnosed the infarction himself). An aneurysm
in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After he was put into a chemically induced coma
to sleep through the worst of the pain, Stacy, his medical proxy at the time, acted against his wishes and authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation
and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision, which caused their relationship to end.
Stacy goes to visit House again in "Three Stories", five years after their break up. She has married Mark Warner (Currie Graham
), a high school guidance counselor. Stacy believes Mark is ill, and wants House to treat him. However, Mark does not believe anything is wrong with him, as well as the members of House's diagnostic team who can not seem to find any medical problems. After various failed attempts to diagnose Mark, House tests Marks urine for porphobilinogen
; the test turns out positive, and Mark is diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria
(AIP). He is therefore required to have "close monitoring" at the hospital for a while. Stacy makes a deal with Lisa Cuddy
(Lisa Edelstein
) to become the hospital's lawyer during Mark's stay at the hospital. During Stacy's time as the hospital's lawyer, she and House grow closer together. In "Need to Know", they end up spending the night together. However, when Stacy prepares to leave Mark for House, House rejects her, stating that he cannot make her happy, because he cannot change. Stacy quits her job and returns to Short Hills, New Jersey
, with Mark.
says, being the "true love that got away", Stacy is a "quick" and "witty" character, who is "the one character who is able to spar with House on a level playing field." Portrayer Sela Ward
has described her character as a window into House's vulnerability and his heart. House simply describes Stacy as "very convincing", as Mark thinks there is nothing wrong with him, but House says that if Stacy says that Mark is ill, he is ill. Many critics noted that Stacy's presence affected House's behaviour, Diane Kristine of Blog Critics stated that, with Stacy, House was "almost nice". Stacy is still very much in love with House and was willing to have an affair with him; however, she has told House on several occasions that she also loves Mark.
|style="text-align: left;"| "As the writers became interested in the idea of Stacy, she started being described as a Sela Ward type, and, literally, I don't think another name came up. Sela's intelligent and a grown-up — somebody you believe House could have been with."
Stacy Warner is a fictional recurring character portrayed by Sela Ward
on the Fox Broadcasting Company
's medical drama
House
. She was in a relationship with Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie
), when he suffered an infarction
in his right leg during a game of golf. This was caused by a clotted aneurysm
in his thigh, which had led to an infarction that caused his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
. Regarding House's treatment, Stacy acted against House's wishes when he was put into a chemically induced coma
. She authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure by removing just the dead muscle, leaving House with a lesser, but serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive her and they broke up. The two meet again, five years later, at the end of season one; Stacy wants House to treat her husband, Mark. House correctly diagnoses Mark with acute intermittent porphyria
, and so he has to remain at the hospital for close monitoring. Stacy becomes the hospital's lawyer, and she and House grow closer together. When she is ultimately willing to leave Mark for him, House tells her to go back to Mark, which devastates her and causes her and Mark to leave the city.
When the writers of the show wrote "Three Stories", the first episode in which Stacy appeared, the first name they came up with to play the character was Sela Ward. Although Ward was not initially interested in portraying Stacy, she changed her mind after watching tapes of the show. While she was originally hired to appear in only two episodes of the first season, the chemistry between Ward and Laurie was strong enough to have her appear in seven more second season episodes. Stacy was received mostly positive by critics who considered her arc a "juicy subplot". .
graduate. Presumably ten years before the events of House, at a "Doctors vs. Lawyers" paintball
game, she met Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie
) with whom she started a romantic relationship. Five years later, during a game of golf, House suffered an infarction
in his right leg. He was admitted at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, but went misdiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior (House eventually diagnosed the infarction himself). An aneurysm
in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After he was put into a chemically induced coma
to sleep through the worst of the pain, Stacy, his medical proxy at the time, acted against his wishes and authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation
and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision, which caused their relationship to end.
Stacy goes to visit House again in "Three Stories", five years after their break up. She has married Mark Warner (Currie Graham
), a high school guidance counselor. Stacy believes Mark is ill, and wants House to treat him. However, Mark does not believe anything is wrong with him, as well as the members of House's diagnostic team who can not seem to find any medical problems. After various failed attempts to diagnose Mark, House tests Marks urine for porphobilinogen
; the test turns out positive, and Mark is diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria
(AIP). He is therefore required to have "close monitoring" at the hospital for a while. Stacy makes a deal with Lisa Cuddy
(Lisa Edelstein
) to become the hospital's lawyer during Mark's stay at the hospital. During Stacy's time as the hospital's lawyer, she and House grow closer together. In "Need to Know", they end up spending the night together. However, when Stacy prepares to leave Mark for House, House rejects her, stating that he cannot make her happy, because he cannot change. Stacy quits her job and returns to Short Hills, New Jersey
, with Mark.
says, being the "true love that got away", Stacy is a "quick" and "witty" character, who is "the one character who is able to spar with House on a level playing field." Portrayer Sela Ward
has described her character as a window into House's vulnerability and his heart. House simply describes Stacy as "very convincing", as Mark thinks there is nothing wrong with him, but House says that if Stacy says that Mark is ill, he is ill. Many critics noted that Stacy's presence affected House's behaviour, Diane Kristine of Blog Critics stated that, with Stacy, House was "almost nice". Stacy is still very much in love with House and was willing to have an affair with him; however, she has told House on several occasions that she also loves Mark.
|style="text-align: left;"| "As the writers became interested in the idea of Stacy, she started being described as a Sela Ward type, and, literally, I don't think another name came up. Sela's intelligent and a grown-up — somebody you believe House could have been with."
Stacy Warner is a fictional recurring character portrayed by Sela Ward
on the Fox Broadcasting Company
's medical drama
House
. She was in a relationship with Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie
), when he suffered an infarction
in his right leg during a game of golf. This was caused by a clotted aneurysm
in his thigh, which had led to an infarction that caused his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
. Regarding House's treatment, Stacy acted against House's wishes when he was put into a chemically induced coma
. She authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure by removing just the dead muscle, leaving House with a lesser, but serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive her and they broke up. The two meet again, five years later, at the end of season one; Stacy wants House to treat her husband, Mark. House correctly diagnoses Mark with acute intermittent porphyria
, and so he has to remain at the hospital for close monitoring. Stacy becomes the hospital's lawyer, and she and House grow closer together. When she is ultimately willing to leave Mark for him, House tells her to go back to Mark, which devastates her and causes her and Mark to leave the city.
When the writers of the show wrote "Three Stories", the first episode in which Stacy appeared, the first name they came up with to play the character was Sela Ward. Although Ward was not initially interested in portraying Stacy, she changed her mind after watching tapes of the show. While she was originally hired to appear in only two episodes of the first season, the chemistry between Ward and Laurie was strong enough to have her appear in seven more second season episodes. Stacy was received mostly positive by critics who considered her arc a "juicy subplot". .
graduate. Presumably ten years before the events of House, at a "Doctors vs. Lawyers" paintball
game, she met Dr. Gregory House
(Hugh Laurie
) with whom she started a romantic relationship. Five years later, during a game of golf, House suffered an infarction
in his right leg. He was admitted at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, but went misdiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior (House eventually diagnosed the infarction himself). An aneurysm
in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After he was put into a chemically induced coma
to sleep through the worst of the pain, Stacy, his medical proxy at the time, acted against his wishes and authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation
and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision, which caused their relationship to end.
Stacy goes to visit House again in "Three Stories", five years after their break up. She has married Mark Warner (Currie Graham
), a high school guidance counselor. Stacy believes Mark is ill, and wants House to treat him. However, Mark does not believe anything is wrong with him, as well as the members of House's diagnostic team who can not seem to find any medical problems. After various failed attempts to diagnose Mark, House tests Marks urine for porphobilinogen
; the test turns out positive, and Mark is diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria
(AIP). He is therefore required to have "close monitoring" at the hospital for a while. Stacy makes a deal with Lisa Cuddy
(Lisa Edelstein
) to become the hospital's lawyer during Mark's stay at the hospital. During Stacy's time as the hospital's lawyer, she and House grow closer together. In "Need to Know", they end up spending the night together. However, when Stacy prepares to leave Mark for House, House rejects her, stating that he cannot make her happy, because he cannot change. Stacy quits her job and returns to Short Hills, New Jersey
, with Mark.
says, being the "true love that got away", Stacy is a "quick" and "witty" character, who is "the one character who is able to spar with House on a level playing field." Portrayer Sela Ward
has described her character as a window into House's vulnerability and his heart. House simply describes Stacy as "very convincing", as Mark thinks there is nothing wrong with him, but House says that if Stacy says that Mark is ill, he is ill. Many critics noted that Stacy's presence affected House's behaviour, Diane Kristine of Blog Critics stated that, with Stacy, House was "almost nice". Stacy is still very much in love with House and was willing to have an affair with him; however, she has told House on several occasions that she also loves Mark.
|style="text-align: left;"| "As the writers became interested in the idea of Stacy, she started being described as a Sela Ward type, and, literally, I don't think another name came up. Sela's intelligent and a grown-up — somebody you believe House could have been with."
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
on the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
. She was in a relationship with Dr. Gregory House
Gregory House
Gregory House, M.D., or simply referred to as House, is a fictional antihero and title character of the American television series House, played by Hugh Laurie. He is the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he leads a team of diagnosticians...
(Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
), when he suffered an infarction
Infarction
In medicine, infarction refers to tissue death that is caused by a local lack of oxygen due to obstruction of the tissue's blood supply. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct.-Causes:...
in his right leg during a game of golf. This was caused by a clotted aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
in his thigh, which had led to an infarction that caused his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
Necrosis
Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
. Regarding House's treatment, Stacy acted against House's wishes when he was put into a chemically induced coma
Induced coma
A barbiturate-induced coma, or barb coma, is a temporary coma brought on by a controlled dose of a barbiturate drug, usually pentobarbital or thiopental...
. She authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure by removing just the dead muscle, leaving House with a lesser, but serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive her and they broke up. The two meet again, five years later, at the end of season one; Stacy wants House to treat her husband, Mark. House correctly diagnoses Mark with acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disorder affecting the production of heme, the oxygen-binding prosthetic group of hemoglobin. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Acute intermittent porphyria is the second most common...
, and so he has to remain at the hospital for close monitoring. Stacy becomes the hospital's lawyer, and she and House grow closer together. When she is ultimately willing to leave Mark for him, House tells her to go back to Mark, which devastates her and causes her and Mark to leave the city.
When the writers of the show wrote "Three Stories", the first episode in which Stacy appeared, the first name they came up with to play the character was Sela Ward. Although Ward was not initially interested in portraying Stacy, she changed her mind after watching tapes of the show. While she was originally hired to appear in only two episodes of the first season, the chemistry between Ward and Laurie was strong enough to have her appear in seven more second season episodes. Stacy was received mostly positive by critics who considered her arc a "juicy subplot". .
Arc
Although not much is revealed about Stacy's early life, it is said in "Acceptance" that she is a Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
graduate. Presumably ten years before the events of House, at a "Doctors vs. Lawyers" paintball
Paintball
Paintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside propelled from a device called a paintball marker . Paintballs have a non-toxic, biodegradable, water soluble...
game, she met Dr. Gregory House
Gregory House
Gregory House, M.D., or simply referred to as House, is a fictional antihero and title character of the American television series House, played by Hugh Laurie. He is the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he leads a team of diagnosticians...
(Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
) with whom she started a romantic relationship. Five years later, during a game of golf, House suffered an infarction
Infarction
In medicine, infarction refers to tissue death that is caused by a local lack of oxygen due to obstruction of the tissue's blood supply. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct.-Causes:...
in his right leg. He was admitted at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, but went misdiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior (House eventually diagnosed the infarction himself). An aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
Necrosis
Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After he was put into a chemically induced coma
Coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
to sleep through the worst of the pain, Stacy, his medical proxy at the time, acted against his wishes and authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation
Amputation
Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision, which caused their relationship to end.
Stacy goes to visit House again in "Three Stories", five years after their break up. She has married Mark Warner (Currie Graham
Currie Graham
Currie Graham is a Canadian stage, film and television actor. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City....
), a high school guidance counselor. Stacy believes Mark is ill, and wants House to treat him. However, Mark does not believe anything is wrong with him, as well as the members of House's diagnostic team who can not seem to find any medical problems. After various failed attempts to diagnose Mark, House tests Marks urine for porphobilinogen
Porphobilinogen
Porphobilinogen is a pyrrole involved in porphyrin metabolism.It is generated by aminolevulinate and the enzyme ALA dehydratase. PBG is then converted into hydroxymethyl bilane by the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase, also known as hydroxymethylbilane synthase.Acute intermittent porphyria causes...
; the test turns out positive, and Mark is diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disorder affecting the production of heme, the oxygen-binding prosthetic group of hemoglobin. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Acute intermittent porphyria is the second most common...
(AIP). He is therefore required to have "close monitoring" at the hospital for a while. Stacy makes a deal with Lisa Cuddy
Lisa Cuddy
Dr. Lisa Cuddy, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. She is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy was the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator of the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. She also becomes House's love interest through the...
(Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the television drama House.-Early life and education:...
) to become the hospital's lawyer during Mark's stay at the hospital. During Stacy's time as the hospital's lawyer, she and House grow closer together. In "Need to Know", they end up spending the night together. However, when Stacy prepares to leave Mark for House, House rejects her, stating that he cannot make her happy, because he cannot change. Stacy quits her job and returns to Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills is an unincorporated area located within the township of Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a popular commuter town for residents who work in New York City...
, with Mark.
Personality
As Houses creator David ShoreDavid Shore
David Shore is a Canadian writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. As a former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue, and Due South...
says, being the "true love that got away", Stacy is a "quick" and "witty" character, who is "the one character who is able to spar with House on a level playing field." Portrayer Sela Ward
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
has described her character as a window into House's vulnerability and his heart. House simply describes Stacy as "very convincing", as Mark thinks there is nothing wrong with him, but House says that if Stacy says that Mark is ill, he is ill. Many critics noted that Stacy's presence affected House's behaviour, Diane Kristine of Blog Critics stated that, with Stacy, House was "almost nice". Stacy is still very much in love with House and was willing to have an affair with him; however, she has told House on several occasions that she also loves Mark.
Development
{|class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 90%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:25em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5"|style="text-align: left;"| "As the writers became interested in the idea of Stacy, she started being described as a Sela Ward type, and, literally, I don't think another name came up. Sela's intelligent and a grown-up — somebody you believe House could have been with."
Stacy Warner is a fictional recurring character portrayed by Sela Ward
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
on the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
. She was in a relationship with Dr. Gregory House
Gregory House
Gregory House, M.D., or simply referred to as House, is a fictional antihero and title character of the American television series House, played by Hugh Laurie. He is the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he leads a team of diagnosticians...
(Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
), when he suffered an infarction
Infarction
In medicine, infarction refers to tissue death that is caused by a local lack of oxygen due to obstruction of the tissue's blood supply. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct.-Causes:...
in his right leg during a game of golf. This was caused by a clotted aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
in his thigh, which had led to an infarction that caused his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
Necrosis
Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
. Regarding House's treatment, Stacy acted against House's wishes when he was put into a chemically induced coma
Induced coma
A barbiturate-induced coma, or barb coma, is a temporary coma brought on by a controlled dose of a barbiturate drug, usually pentobarbital or thiopental...
. She authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure by removing just the dead muscle, leaving House with a lesser, but serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive her and they broke up. The two meet again, five years later, at the end of season one; Stacy wants House to treat her husband, Mark. House correctly diagnoses Mark with acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disorder affecting the production of heme, the oxygen-binding prosthetic group of hemoglobin. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Acute intermittent porphyria is the second most common...
, and so he has to remain at the hospital for close monitoring. Stacy becomes the hospital's lawyer, and she and House grow closer together. When she is ultimately willing to leave Mark for him, House tells her to go back to Mark, which devastates her and causes her and Mark to leave the city.
When the writers of the show wrote "Three Stories", the first episode in which Stacy appeared, the first name they came up with to play the character was Sela Ward. Although Ward was not initially interested in portraying Stacy, she changed her mind after watching tapes of the show. While she was originally hired to appear in only two episodes of the first season, the chemistry between Ward and Laurie was strong enough to have her appear in seven more second season episodes. Stacy was received mostly positive by critics who considered her arc a "juicy subplot". .
Arc
Although not much is revealed about Stacy's early life, it is said in "Acceptance" that she is a Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
graduate. Presumably ten years before the events of House, at a "Doctors vs. Lawyers" paintball
Paintball
Paintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside propelled from a device called a paintball marker . Paintballs have a non-toxic, biodegradable, water soluble...
game, she met Dr. Gregory House
Gregory House
Gregory House, M.D., or simply referred to as House, is a fictional antihero and title character of the American television series House, played by Hugh Laurie. He is the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he leads a team of diagnosticians...
(Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
) with whom she started a romantic relationship. Five years later, during a game of golf, House suffered an infarction
Infarction
In medicine, infarction refers to tissue death that is caused by a local lack of oxygen due to obstruction of the tissue's blood supply. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct.-Causes:...
in his right leg. He was admitted at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, but went misdiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior (House eventually diagnosed the infarction himself). An aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
Necrosis
Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After he was put into a chemically induced coma
Coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
to sleep through the worst of the pain, Stacy, his medical proxy at the time, acted against his wishes and authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation
Amputation
Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision, which caused their relationship to end.
Stacy goes to visit House again in "Three Stories", five years after their break up. She has married Mark Warner (Currie Graham
Currie Graham
Currie Graham is a Canadian stage, film and television actor. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City....
), a high school guidance counselor. Stacy believes Mark is ill, and wants House to treat him. However, Mark does not believe anything is wrong with him, as well as the members of House's diagnostic team who can not seem to find any medical problems. After various failed attempts to diagnose Mark, House tests Marks urine for porphobilinogen
Porphobilinogen
Porphobilinogen is a pyrrole involved in porphyrin metabolism.It is generated by aminolevulinate and the enzyme ALA dehydratase. PBG is then converted into hydroxymethyl bilane by the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase, also known as hydroxymethylbilane synthase.Acute intermittent porphyria causes...
; the test turns out positive, and Mark is diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disorder affecting the production of heme, the oxygen-binding prosthetic group of hemoglobin. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Acute intermittent porphyria is the second most common...
(AIP). He is therefore required to have "close monitoring" at the hospital for a while. Stacy makes a deal with Lisa Cuddy
Lisa Cuddy
Dr. Lisa Cuddy, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. She is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy was the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator of the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. She also becomes House's love interest through the...
(Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the television drama House.-Early life and education:...
) to become the hospital's lawyer during Mark's stay at the hospital. During Stacy's time as the hospital's lawyer, she and House grow closer together. In "Need to Know", they end up spending the night together. However, when Stacy prepares to leave Mark for House, House rejects her, stating that he cannot make her happy, because he cannot change. Stacy quits her job and returns to Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills is an unincorporated area located within the township of Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a popular commuter town for residents who work in New York City...
, with Mark.
Personality
As Houses creator David ShoreDavid Shore
David Shore is a Canadian writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. As a former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue, and Due South...
says, being the "true love that got away", Stacy is a "quick" and "witty" character, who is "the one character who is able to spar with House on a level playing field." Portrayer Sela Ward
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
has described her character as a window into House's vulnerability and his heart. House simply describes Stacy as "very convincing", as Mark thinks there is nothing wrong with him, but House says that if Stacy says that Mark is ill, he is ill. Many critics noted that Stacy's presence affected House's behaviour, Diane Kristine of Blog Critics stated that, with Stacy, House was "almost nice". Stacy is still very much in love with House and was willing to have an affair with him; however, she has told House on several occasions that she also loves Mark.
Development
{|class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 90%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:25em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5"|style="text-align: left;"| "As the writers became interested in the idea of Stacy, she started being described as a Sela Ward type, and, literally, I don't think another name came up. Sela's intelligent and a grown-up — somebody you believe House could have been with."
Stacy Warner is a fictional recurring character portrayed by Sela Ward
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
on the Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
's medical drama
Medical drama
A medical drama is a television program, in which events center upon a hospital, an ambulance staff, or any medical environment.In the United States, most medical episodes are one hour long and, more often than not, are set in a hospital. Most current medical Dramatic programming go beyond the...
House
House (TV series)
House is an American television medical drama that debuted on the Fox network on November 16, 2004. The show's central character is Dr. Gregory House , an unconventional and misanthropic medical genius who heads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in...
. She was in a relationship with Dr. Gregory House
Gregory House
Gregory House, M.D., or simply referred to as House, is a fictional antihero and title character of the American television series House, played by Hugh Laurie. He is the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he leads a team of diagnosticians...
(Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
), when he suffered an infarction
Infarction
In medicine, infarction refers to tissue death that is caused by a local lack of oxygen due to obstruction of the tissue's blood supply. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct.-Causes:...
in his right leg during a game of golf. This was caused by a clotted aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
in his thigh, which had led to an infarction that caused his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
Necrosis
Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
. Regarding House's treatment, Stacy acted against House's wishes when he was put into a chemically induced coma
Induced coma
A barbiturate-induced coma, or barb coma, is a temporary coma brought on by a controlled dose of a barbiturate drug, usually pentobarbital or thiopental...
. She authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure by removing just the dead muscle, leaving House with a lesser, but serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive her and they broke up. The two meet again, five years later, at the end of season one; Stacy wants House to treat her husband, Mark. House correctly diagnoses Mark with acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disorder affecting the production of heme, the oxygen-binding prosthetic group of hemoglobin. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Acute intermittent porphyria is the second most common...
, and so he has to remain at the hospital for close monitoring. Stacy becomes the hospital's lawyer, and she and House grow closer together. When she is ultimately willing to leave Mark for him, House tells her to go back to Mark, which devastates her and causes her and Mark to leave the city.
When the writers of the show wrote "Three Stories", the first episode in which Stacy appeared, the first name they came up with to play the character was Sela Ward. Although Ward was not initially interested in portraying Stacy, she changed her mind after watching tapes of the show. While she was originally hired to appear in only two episodes of the first season, the chemistry between Ward and Laurie was strong enough to have her appear in seven more second season episodes. Stacy was received mostly positive by critics who considered her arc a "juicy subplot". .
Arc
Although not much is revealed about Stacy's early life, it is said in "Acceptance" that she is a Duke UniversityDuke University
Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
graduate. Presumably ten years before the events of House, at a "Doctors vs. Lawyers" paintball
Paintball
Paintball is a sport in which players compete, in teams or individually, to eliminate opponents by tagging them with capsules containing water soluble dye and gelatin shell outside propelled from a device called a paintball marker . Paintballs have a non-toxic, biodegradable, water soluble...
game, she met Dr. Gregory House
Gregory House
Gregory House, M.D., or simply referred to as House, is a fictional antihero and title character of the American television series House, played by Hugh Laurie. He is the Chief of Diagnostic Medicine at the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, where he leads a team of diagnosticians...
(Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE , better known as Hugh Laurie , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director...
) with whom she started a romantic relationship. Five years later, during a game of golf, House suffered an infarction
Infarction
In medicine, infarction refers to tissue death that is caused by a local lack of oxygen due to obstruction of the tissue's blood supply. The resulting lesion is referred to as an infarct.-Causes:...
in his right leg. He was admitted at the Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, but went misdiagnosed for three days due to doctors' concerns that he was exhibiting drug-seeking behavior (House eventually diagnosed the infarction himself). An aneurysm
Aneurysm
An aneurysm or aneurism is a localized, blood-filled balloon-like bulge in the wall of a blood vessel. Aneurysms can commonly occur in arteries at the base of the brain and an aortic aneurysm occurs in the main artery carrying blood from the left ventricle of the heart...
in his thigh had clotted, leading to an infarction and causing his quadriceps muscle to become necrotic
Necrosis
Necrosis is the premature death of cells in living tissue. Necrosis is caused by factors external to the cell or tissue, such as infection, toxins, or trauma. This is in contrast to apoptosis, which is a naturally occurring cause of cellular death...
. House had the dead muscle bypassed in order to restore circulation to the remainder of his leg, risking organ failure and cardiac arrest. He was willing to endure excruciating post-operative pain to retain the use of his leg. After he was put into a chemically induced coma
Coma
In medicine, a coma is a state of unconsciousness, lasting more than 6 hours in which a person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to painful stimuli, light or sound, lacks a normal sleep-wake cycle and does not initiate voluntary actions. A person in a state of coma is described as...
to sleep through the worst of the pain, Stacy, his medical proxy at the time, acted against his wishes and authorized a safer surgical middle-ground procedure between amputation
Amputation
Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
and a bypass by removing just the dead muscle. This resulted in the partial loss of use in his leg, and left House with a lesser, but still serious, level of pain for the rest of his life. House could not forgive Stacy for making the decision, which caused their relationship to end.
Stacy goes to visit House again in "Three Stories", five years after their break up. She has married Mark Warner (Currie Graham
Currie Graham
Currie Graham is a Canadian stage, film and television actor. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City....
), a high school guidance counselor. Stacy believes Mark is ill, and wants House to treat him. However, Mark does not believe anything is wrong with him, as well as the members of House's diagnostic team who can not seem to find any medical problems. After various failed attempts to diagnose Mark, House tests Marks urine for porphobilinogen
Porphobilinogen
Porphobilinogen is a pyrrole involved in porphyrin metabolism.It is generated by aminolevulinate and the enzyme ALA dehydratase. PBG is then converted into hydroxymethyl bilane by the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase, also known as hydroxymethylbilane synthase.Acute intermittent porphyria causes...
; the test turns out positive, and Mark is diagnosed with acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria
Acute intermittent porphyria is a rare autosomal dominant metabolic disorder affecting the production of heme, the oxygen-binding prosthetic group of hemoglobin. It is characterized by a deficiency of the enzyme porphobilinogen deaminase. Acute intermittent porphyria is the second most common...
(AIP). He is therefore required to have "close monitoring" at the hospital for a while. Stacy makes a deal with Lisa Cuddy
Lisa Cuddy
Dr. Lisa Cuddy, M.D., is a fictional character on the Fox medical drama House. She is portrayed by Lisa Edelstein. Cuddy was the Dean of Medicine and hospital administrator of the fictional Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey. She also becomes House's love interest through the...
(Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein
Lisa Edelstein is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her role as Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the television drama House.-Early life and education:...
) to become the hospital's lawyer during Mark's stay at the hospital. During Stacy's time as the hospital's lawyer, she and House grow closer together. In "Need to Know", they end up spending the night together. However, when Stacy prepares to leave Mark for House, House rejects her, stating that he cannot make her happy, because he cannot change. Stacy quits her job and returns to Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills, New Jersey
Short Hills is an unincorporated area located within the township of Millburn, in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is a popular commuter town for residents who work in New York City...
, with Mark.
Personality
As Houses creator David ShoreDavid Shore
David Shore is a Canadian writer, best known for his work writing and producing in television. As a former lawyer, Shore became known for his work on Family Law, NYPD Blue, and Due South...
says, being the "true love that got away", Stacy is a "quick" and "witty" character, who is "the one character who is able to spar with House on a level playing field." Portrayer Sela Ward
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as Teddy Reed on the American TV series Sisters and as Lily Manning on Once and Again...
has described her character as a window into House's vulnerability and his heart. House simply describes Stacy as "very convincing", as Mark thinks there is nothing wrong with him, but House says that if Stacy says that Mark is ill, he is ill. Many critics noted that Stacy's presence affected House's behaviour, Diane Kristine of Blog Critics stated that, with Stacy, House was "almost nice". Stacy is still very much in love with House and was willing to have an affair with him; however, she has told House on several occasions that she also loves Mark.
Development
{|class="toccolours" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; font-size: 90%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:25em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5"|style="text-align: left;"| "As the writers became interested in the idea of Stacy, she started being described as a Sela Ward type, and, literally, I don't think another name came up. Sela's intelligent and a grown-up — somebody you believe House could have been with."
– Shore on casting Ward.
|}
According to the producers of House, Stacy was brought into the show to give viewers some insight into House. The writers chose to start off Stacy's story arc "very subtly", but to end it with a "big blowout". Shore explained that he wanted Ward for the part because it was the first person the writing staff of House came up with, adding that she acts in a "simple" and "convincing way". Initially, Ward was not interested in portraying the character, because, after the cancellation of Once and Again
, she wanted to spend more time with her kids, which is why she had also turned down earlier roles on CSI: Miami
and Desperate Housewives
. However, she changed her mind when she saw tapes of the show, because as she watched she realized that House "would be fun to be a part of".
In a 2005 Entertainment Weekly
interview, Ward, who had never appeared in a medical show before, stated that when she was young, her mother was sick for over nine years and she spent a lot of time in hospitals. This being the reason that, on the set of House, she felt "at home, in a strange way". While she was initially hired to appear only in "Three Stories" and "Honeymoon", the chemistry between Ward and House lead actor Hugh Laurie was strong enough for Ward to return for a multiple-episode story arc in the second season of the show. On working with Ward, Laurie commented "We're professionals who were lucky enough to be extremely well-equipped with a very sound, true script, the fact that Sela is immensely attractive and we got on well certainly is not an impediment." Though Ward has expressed that she would like to return to the show, Shore told USA Today
in 2006 that, although he was eager to write her back in, there were "no specific plans" to have the character return.
s Matt Roush stated that he was pleased with the character showing of House's soft side, calling the character's story arc a "juicy subplot". David Bianculli of The New York Daily News stated that with the addition of Stacy, House shifted "to the top echelon of today's TV dramas". Critics of USA Today stated Ward "brought a sense of joy, if fleeting, to the show". In an article about who annoyed House the most, Entertainment Weekly
s Alynda Wheat stated that Stacy annoyed House third most, ranking behind Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek
) and Michael Tritter
(David Morse
). However, Alan Sepinwall, of the Star-Ledger, commented that although he finds Ward a "talented" actress, her character, along with prior, and later, recurring characters, was "humorless" and "determined to ruin the audience's fun right along with House's".
|}
According to the producers of House, Stacy was brought into the show to give viewers some insight into House. The writers chose to start off Stacy's story arc "very subtly", but to end it with a "big blowout". Shore explained that he wanted Ward for the part because it was the first person the writing staff of House came up with, adding that she acts in a "simple" and "convincing way". Initially, Ward was not interested in portraying the character, because, after the cancellation of Once and Again
Once and Again
Once and Again is an American television series that aired on ABC from September 21, 1999 to April 15, 2002. It depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father...
, she wanted to spend more time with her kids, which is why she had also turned down earlier roles on CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami
CSI: Miami is an American police procedural television series, which premiered on September 23, 2002 on CBS. The series is a spin-off of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation....
and Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions. Executive producer Cherry serves as Showrunner. Other executive producers since the fourth season include Marc Cherry, Bob Daily, George W...
. However, she changed her mind when she saw tapes of the show, because as she watched she realized that House "would be fun to be a part of".
In a 2005 Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
interview, Ward, who had never appeared in a medical show before, stated that when she was young, her mother was sick for over nine years and she spent a lot of time in hospitals. This being the reason that, on the set of House, she felt "at home, in a strange way". While she was initially hired to appear only in "Three Stories" and "Honeymoon", the chemistry between Ward and House lead actor Hugh Laurie was strong enough for Ward to return for a multiple-episode story arc in the second season of the show. On working with Ward, Laurie commented "We're professionals who were lucky enough to be extremely well-equipped with a very sound, true script, the fact that Sela is immensely attractive and we got on well certainly is not an impediment." Though Ward has expressed that she would like to return to the show, Shore told USA Today
USA Today
USA Today is a national American daily newspaper published by the Gannett Company. It was founded by Al Neuharth. The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States, something it previously held since 2003...
in 2006 that, although he was eager to write her back in, there were "no specific plans" to have the character return.
Reception
Initial responses to Stacy were mostly positive. TV GuideTV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
s Matt Roush stated that he was pleased with the character showing of House's soft side, calling the character's story arc a "juicy subplot". David Bianculli of The New York Daily News stated that with the addition of Stacy, House shifted "to the top echelon of today's TV dramas". Critics of USA Today stated Ward "brought a sense of joy, if fleeting, to the show". In an article about who annoyed House the most, Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
s Alynda Wheat stated that Stacy annoyed House third most, ranking behind Amber Volakis (Anne Dudek
Anne Dudek
Anne Louise Dudek is an American actress, known for her role as Dr. Amber Volakis on the television show House and her leading role on UK television series The Book Group as well as playing Francine Hanson in the series Mad Men...
) and Michael Tritter
Michael Tritter
Detective Michael Tritter is a recurring fictional character in the medical drama series House, portrayed by David Morse. He is the main antagonist of the third season, which ran between 2006 and 2007. Tritter is a police detective, who tries to get Dr. Gregory House to apologize for leaving him...
(David Morse
David Morse (actor)
David Bowditch Morse is an American stage, television, and film actor. He first came to national attention as Dr. Jack Morrison in the medical drama St. Elsewhere from 1982 to 1988...
). However, Alan Sepinwall, of the Star-Ledger, commented that although he finds Ward a "talented" actress, her character, along with prior, and later, recurring characters, was "humorless" and "determined to ruin the audience's fun right along with House's".
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