Exclusive: Ming Na Makes Private Practice Appointment

Ming Na by Eric Charbonneau/WireImage.com
Ming Na, who once played a doctor on
ER, next will be playing with the doctors of
Private Practice.
In the fifth episode of the ABC drama's second season (which kicks off this Wednesday), Ming Na will guest-star as a friend of Violet's, and thus will help shed some light on Amy Brenneman's introverted shrink. (Oh wow, it just hit me - she's a "shrinking Violet." D'oh!)
Ming Na's other credits include NBC's short-lived
Inconceivable and Fox's almost-as-fleeting
Vanished (in which she was woefully underserved).
Previously announced
Private guest-stars for the coming season include Billy Dee Williams (as a man who has taken care of his ill wife, at great cost to his own health) and Grant Show (playing Addison's brother). -
Matt Mitovich
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