Dr. McDreamy to the rescue!!

Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo will portray patient Helen Crawford in a future episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Helen is a 50-year-old doctor who is in desperate need of surgery because of a brain tumor. (Do I spy a Hermes Birkin handbag?)

Dr. Derek Sherpherd (Patrick Dempsey, pictured) is somehow connected to Helen, and holds her near and dear to his heart.

Shohreh, 54, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for 2003’s House of Sand and Fog with Jennifer Connelly, Ben Kingsley. But you all probably know her best as Dina Araz, the wife of a terrorist in 24.

Grey’s Anatomy episode “Scars and Sourvenirs” airs Thursday, March 15 @ 9PM ET/PT on ABC.

How cute is this picture of T.R. Knight doing a check-up on Shohreh’s tummy?

"Cowboys and Iranians" Synopsis :: An ecstatic Jack (Sean Hayes) coerces Will (Eric McCormack) into coming out with him to a gay cowboy bar to meet his new boyfriend Travis. Will soon discovers that Travis is not as perfect as he seems and steps up to defend Jack’s honor, which eventually leads to a raucous event - a bar fight.

53-year-old Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo is one of my favorite actresses of all time.  She caught my attention in her breakout role in 24 last season as Dina Araz, wife of Muslim terrorist mastermind Navi Araz (Nestor Serrano) but has also starred alongside Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley in Vadim Perelman’s House of Sand and Fog. Will & Grace episode "Cowboys and Iranians" airs this Thursday, March 23 on NBC (8-8:30 p.m. ET).  If Shohreh’s comedic timing is half as good as her acting chops in dramatic roles, we’re all in for a treat.  More pictures in the gallery!

 
Jack (Sean Hayes) and Will (Eric McCormack) dance
at the gay cowboy bar in this week’s Will & Grace.

"Lost in America" Synopsis :: Abby (Maura Tierney) and Kovac (Goran Visnjic) desperately try to keep a 21 year-old girl (Zina Zaflow) brought into the ER with stab wounds to the neck alive while they wait for a surgeon to operate. As the young girl’s condition begins to deteriorate, Clemente (John Leguizamo) steps in and decides to try a risky procedure on the girl in order to save her life. Meanwhile, Neela (Parminder Nagra) pulls an all-nighter in preparation for a speech at a surgeon’s convention but is disappointed when her speech goes awry. Back at the ER, Ray tries to treat a suicidal man claiming to have swallowed a bottle of pills. Sam (Linda Cardellini) decides to take a part-time job with Elliot (Armand Assante) to help supplement her childcare expenses.

Double dose of Shohreh Aghdashloo this Thursday!  Oscar-nominated Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo, 53, guests stars as a Turkish mother whose daughter is brought to the ER close to death following a knife attack. ER episode "Lost in America" airs this Thursday, March 23 on NBC (10-11 p.m. ET).