Goran Visnjic as Dr. Luka Kovač, Maura Tierney as Dr. Abby Lockhart, Alex Kingston as Dr. Elizabeth Corday, and Paul McCrane as Dr. Robert Romano, all joined the cast as the seasons went on.

Maura Therese Tierney ( born February 3, 1965 ) is an American film and television actress, who is best known for her roles as Lisa Miller on the sitcom NewsRadio and Abby Lockhart on the television medical drama ER.

Tierney played Nurse Abigail " Abby " Lockhart on ER, a character that began as a guest appearance as an OB nurse in November 1999, then expanded in February 2000 to a full-time regular part as an ER nurse ( and later, after completion of medical school, a licensed ER doctor ).

In the fall of 2006, Whitaker started a multi-episode story arc on ER as Curtis Ames, a man who comes into the ER with a cough, but quickly faces the long-term consequences of a paralyzing stroke ; he then takes out his anger on Doctors Luka Kovač and Abby Lockhart.

Many of his friends and colleagues come to the funeral: John Carter, Peter Benton, Kerry Weaver, Abby Lockhart, Luka Kovač, Susan Lewis, Jing-Mei Chen, Robert Romano, Jerry Markovic, Lydia Wright, Frank Martin, Donald Anspaugh, William " Wild Willy " Swift ( played by Michael Ironside in 1994 ), Haleh Adams, Michael Gallant, Cleo Finch, Jen, Rachel, Ella, and Elizabeth.

In the season 15 episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

After Abby Lockhart catches him injecting left-over fentanyl from a trauma into his wrist, Carter's colleagues hold an intervention and Dr. Greene demands he go to an inpatient rehab center for medical doctors in Atlanta or be fired.

In the Season 15 episode, " The Book of Abby ", long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

He tries to rekindle the romance because he still has feelings for her despite her age, but she dumps him because she knows he has feelings for Abby Lockhart.

She befriends many of the female ER staff, including Carol Hathaway and Dr. Anna del Amico ; and later on Abby Lockhart and Susan Lewis.

During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

In the Season 15 episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

Eight years later, during the 15th season of ER, at the end of the October 16, 2008 episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

Dr. Abby Lockhart ( married name Kovač, formerly Abby Lockhart, R. N.

* Maura Tierney as Nurse Abby Lockhart

Luka then began seeing Abby Lockhart ( Maura Tierney ) again after an argument that turned into a kiss, and an overnight affair.

The character of Abby Lockhart first appears in season 6 of ER in the episode " Great Expectations ", guest starring as Carol Hathaway's labor and delivery nurse.

After several generally rewarding years as a nurse, Abby got her ex-husband to sign off on a loan so she could finish medical school.

Long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

In 2003, Abby starts her final year of medical school as newcomer Samantha Taggart replaces her as the central nurse character on the show.

During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode " The Book of Abby ", long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

Early into Season 7, Luka became involved with Abby, now an ER nurse, after a spontaneous kiss lead him to reconsider his relationship with her.

During the 15th and final season of ER, at the end of the episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

In the season 15 episode The Book of Abby, long-serving nurse Haleh Adams shows the departing Abby Lockhart a closet wall where all the past doctors and employees have put their locker name tags.

Field had a recurring role on ER in the 2000-01 season as Dr. Abby Lockhart's mother, Maggie, who suffers from bipolar disorder, a role for which she won an Emmy Award in 2001.

During Season 9, Carter begins sleeping with Abby after they were quarantined in the ER for two weeks because of the outbreak of monkeypox.

Soon after taking the position in the ER, Abby begins a relationship with Dr. Luka Kovač.

Throughout Season 13, Abby is shown growing into her role as Joe's mother, first by taking time off to be with her seriously ill baby, then by participating in classic maternal activities like Mommy and Baby classes and walks in the park, and then later by gradually reintroducing herself into the ER world.

After Luka's departure, Abby along with the ER staff has a tough time with the stern and poised new ER Chief Kevin Moretti, who plans to mold the department into a more efficient and professional work environment, but Moretti quickly tells Abby he is very impressed with her work.

In Season 14, Abby is struggling to deal with Luka's absence, raise Joe and work at the ER ; in " Gravity ", Joe is injured after falling off a jungle gym at the playground and Abby ends up falling back into drinking at the episode's end.

Alcott married Abby May in 1830 and they eventually had four surviving children, all daughters.

Alcott had been influenced by educational philosophy of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and even renamed his school " The Cheshire Pestalozzi School ". His style attracted the attention of Samuel Joseph May, who introduced Alcott to his sister Abby May.

Abby May applied as his teaching assistant ; instead, the couple were engaged, without consent of the family.

" We hardly earn the bread ", wrote Abby May to her brother, " the butter we have to think about.

As Abby wrote, his death " has prostrated all our hopes here.

On July 26, 1840, Abby May gave birth again.

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

Abby May wrote in her journal on January 17, 1843, " A day of some excitement, as Mr. Alcott refused to pay his town tax ... After waiting some time to be committed jail, he was told it was paid by a friend.

Other than Abby May and her daughters, only one other woman joined, Ann Page.

Abby May thought Lane purposely sabotaged her family.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

At one point, Abby May threatened that she and their daughters would move elsewhere, leaving Bronson behind.

On May 23, 1845, Abby May was granted a sum from her father's estate which was put into a trust fund, granting minor financial security.

After the death of his wife Abby May on November 25, 1877, Alcott never returned to Orchard House, too heartbroken to live there.

* Letters In Cardboard Boxes ( 2011 ) by Abby Slovin is written as a narrative alongside a series of letters exchanged between an eccentric grandmother and her granddaughter as the protagonist experiences loss.

* 1874 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist ( d. 1948 )

* Slack, Kerryn E .; Jones, Craig M .; Ando, Tatsuro ; Harrison G. L. " Abby "; Fordyce R. Ewan ; Arnason, Ulfur & Penny, David ( 2006 ): Early Penguin Fossils, plus Mitochondrial Genomes, Calibrate Avian Evolution.

Each of these series featured a wealthy, domineering, promiscuous and passionate antagonist as a key character in the storyline – J. R. Ewing, Alexis Colby, Abby Cunningham and Angela Channing respectively.

The first soul food cookbook is attributed to Abby Fisher, entitled What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking and published in 1881.