We weave a web of tangled threads! Dick Wolf’s characters on Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D.And Chicago MedThey are intertwined at many levels, including siblings and marriages, as well as failed romances.
Fans were able to taste the crossover connections from an early age. Chicago Fire’s Gabby Dawson (Monica Raymund) and Chicago P.D.’s Antonio Dawson (Jon Seda). The first time the fictional sister-brother duo appeared together on screen was in season 1. FireThe first One Chicago series is titled. (The show premiered in October 2012.
“When they first offered me the role, Dick Wolf said he was the brother to Gabriela Dawson and he is a detective,” Seda recalled during an interview with Starry magazine in October 2017. “So, I think it was pretty much left open for me to bring to it whatever I was going to bring to Antonio. Of course, now, how they write him in the scripts …That’s pretty much it — he’s the brother of Gabby and he’s a detective.”
The LA BreaStar, who was part the original cast of Chicago P.D.When it premiered on January 14, 2014, it was noted that Raymund and his chemistry were quick.
“We didn’t really have time to rehearse and get to know each other,” Seda explained. “She’s just such a pro and such a great person that she makes it so easy for me to walk on set and see her and work with her. She’s just so good and she’s a joy to work with.”
Soon after, viewers were introduced to Chicago P.D.’s Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer) during the procedural drama’s first season, they learned that he had an equally talented brother, Dr. Will Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss), who later became a lead character on Chicago Med.
Off screen, the actors’ bond goes beyond just being friends — they have experience saving a person’s life together.
“My favorite fan story is actually, like, a real-life rescue encounter,” Soffer told reporters at Comic Con in July 2021, recalling a time when the duo helped rescue a woman who was in a car crash. “I was out to dinner with Nick Gehlfuss, who plays my brother on Chicago Med, and we were walking home from dinner and we heard screeching tires behind us, like, a block away.”
The Mob Doctor alum revealed that the woman’s vehicle had rolled into a ditch after hitting another car.
“Nick and I, we ran, and he was like, ‘What are we doing?’ And I was like, ‘We go, we have to go.’ And we sprang into action,” Soffer continued. “We jumped into the ditch and we pulled this woman out. The car was on its side, we pulled her out of the driver’s side window, basically, and got her up.”
The In TimeThe actor said that the woman was surprised to see two actors, who are Chicago first responders at the scene of the accident. “She was like ‘Aaah!’ It was, like, a weird meta experience for her that the Halstead brothers were saving her life,” Soffer added.
Scroll down to see how some of the other One Chicago characters are related — and which crossovers led to romances:
