Tyra Dupre, Emily Owens M.D

Tyra Dupre (Kelly McCreary)

Tyra is a first-year surgical intern on the medical drama Emily Owens, M.D. She quickly befriends Emily, the main character and confides in her that she is a lesbian.

Tyra is cool, fun and friendly. She’s also the daughter of the chief of surgery, and despite being out to everyone else, she has a coming out storyline with him. In episode 1×05, her ex boyfriend shows up at the hospital, and Tyra pretends he’s still her boyfriend in order to avoid coming out to her father. She comes out to him an episode later.

She has no other love interests on the show, although she tells Emily that she is interested in dating a certain nurse and in another episode she prepares for a blind date.

Appearances:

• 13 episodes.

No female love interests

Relationship story arc with a woman: No

Male love interests:

• Ex-boyfriend (1 episode)

Relationship story arc with a man: No

Male love interest after being identified as a lesbian? No

Filter Relationship Arc:

• None

Storyline during sweeps? No

[1] A relationship story arc is defined as explicit, developed on screen, and lasting more than 3 episodes. It is listed as questionable or subtext if romance is only implied, mentioned instead of shown on screen, part of a dream sequence, or otherwise not explicit for the viewer.
[2] Sweeps episodes air in February, May, July and November, the periods when advertising rates are set. A character is marked as "sweeps" when there is a very limited number of episodes that address their sexuality, all air during sweeps period, and the storyline is otherwise ignore/dropped.