Justin Chambers

For fifteen years Justin Chambers played Dr. Alex Karev on Grey's Anatomy, the surgical intern who began as the show's resident jerk and grew into one of its most loved characters. Then, in January 2020, the network announced that he had already left. His final episode had aired months earlier, and he never returned for a farewell scene. The abrupt exit was a reminder of how private he had always been.

He was born on July 11, 1970, in Springfield, Ohio, at 12:31 in the morning, as recorded on his birth certificate, and he has a twin brother, Jason. His Sun is in Cancer, with Mercury also in Cancer, both in the fourth house of home, family and private life. Cancer is the most home-centered sign in the zodiac, protective and devoted. A Cancer Sun in the fourth describes someone whose real life is at home, and Chambers has been married to his wife, Keisha, a former model agent, since 1993. They have five children.

Mars in Cancer sits in his fifth house, which governs children. Mars there describes energy poured into children and family life, and Chambers has often said that being a father was what mattered most to him, beyond acting.

Aries is his rising sign, giving a direct, physical and slightly brooding first impression. As a young man he was discovered in Paris and modeled for designers including Calvin Klein. Acting came next, starting on the soap opera Another World and continuing with roles in The Wedding Planner, opposite Jennifer Lopez, and The Musketeer, in which he played D'Artagnan.

His Moon is in Libra in the seventh house of partnership, alongside Jupiter and Uranus in Libra. A Libra Moon seeks harmony through relationships, and with Jupiter in the seventh it suggests a person who finds stability and good fortune in partnership. His long marriage is one of the more durable in Hollywood.

Venus in Leo and Pluto in Virgo both fall in his sixth house, the part of a chart associated with health, hospitals and daily work. It would be hard to find a better placement for an actor whose defining role was a doctor on a hospital drama that ran for years. Alex Karev, a former foster child who became a pediatric surgeon, was written with growing depth, and Chambers's quiet performance won him a large following.

Chambers has spoken about having dyslexia, which made reading scripts difficult and shaped how he learned his lines. Saturn in Taurus, in the second house of resources, describes steady, patient effort to build security, and his long run on one of television's most successful dramas gave him exactly that.

After leaving Grey's Anatomy, he chose to step back and spend time with his family. The Cancer planets in his fourth house had always made the priority clear: home came first.