Character Profile

NAME: Dr. Sara Tancredi

Doctor Sara Tancredi lives her life by one simple maxim: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
From an early age, Sara knew that she wanted to be a doctor. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, she always hoped to work in a hospital or private practice, someplace nice, sheltered.

Those desires changed during her freshman year at Northwestern University when Tancredi was introduced to the writings of Mahatma Gandhi. Her worldview was immediately and irrevocably altered. Being a traditional doctor was no longer enough for her and she decided that she must follow a more humanitarian path.

Ironically, Gandhi’s views on non-violence convinced Doctor Tancredi to pursue a career in the most violent of all environments: Fox River Penitentiary.

As one of the few doctors on staff, Sara is responsible for everything from administering physicals to performing emergency surgery. And while her work is noble (she has won multiple humanitarian awards), it is also dangerous. Every day, she interacts with rapists and murderers who haven’t so much as touched another woman in years.

Though Sara doesn’t think twice about the risks she puts herself in every day, it is a constant source of stress for her father, Illinois Governor “Frontier Justice” Frank Tancredi. That, along with their vastly different political beliefs, has cooled their relationship significantly in recent years.

Credit: Fox.Com

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