Chasing Life

Premise

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Italia Ricci as April Carver, a junior reporter at The Boston Post newspaper whose life takes a turn when she is diagnosed with leukemia.
• Mary Page Keller as Sara Carver, April and Brenna's mother. She works as a therapist but her training has not helped her better relate to people outside the office.
• Richard Brancatisano as Dominic Russo, an arts reporter at The Boston Post and April's love interest. Breaks up with April after finding out she hadn't told him about cancer. Then, begins to date April's half-sister, Natalie but he doesn't commit to it, because he's clearly still in love with April.
• Haley Ramm as Brenna Carver, April's rebellious teenage sister, who went into a bad place after her father's death. In the midst of struggling with the changes in April's life, she starts dating popular classmate Greer, her parents disapprove of her and forbid them from seeing each other. They date again briefly before breaking up due to Greer moving. In the Christmas special, Brenna came out as bisexual.
• Aisha Dee as Beth Kingston, April's best friend, who is the first person April tells about her cancer and April's most steadfast supporter.

  Recurring cast

• Scott Michael Foster as Leo Hendrie, the son of a famous politician, who also has cancer. Also a love interest of April. Eventually asks April to marry him, and she says yes and they get married. Shortly after, he passes away in his sleep.
• Rebecca Schull as Emma, Sara's mother and April and Brenna's grandmother.
• Jessica Meraz as Natalie Ortiz, April and Brenna's paternal half-sister. She is younger than April, but older than Brenna. Thomas had an affair resulting with Natalie's birth many years ago, which only Sara and George knew about.
• Abhi Sinha as Danny Gupta, April's former co-worker turned friend.
• Steven Weber as Dr. George Carver, April and Brenna's paternal uncle, who has a romantic interest in Sara.
• Gracie Dzienny as Greer Danville, a popular girl from Brenna's school, who is Brenna's ex-girlfriend. She briefly lived with Brenna after a fallout with her parents before moving with her dad.
• Dylan Gelula as Ford, Brenna's best friend. They go through a rough patch when Brenna gets involved with Greer, but she is shown to be fiercely loyal.
• Merrin Dungey as Dr. Susan Hamburg, April's doctor.
• Shi Ne Nielson as Raquel Avila, April's supervisor turned rival
• Rob Kerkovich as Graham, Dominic's roommate and Beth's ex-boyfriend, whom she broke up with due to commitment issues.
• Augusto Aguilera as Kieran, Brenna's older ex-boyfriend who is also her boss at an art gallery/tattoo parlor.
• Alycia Grant as Meg, April's friend from her cancer support group.
• Todd Waring as Bruce Hendrie, Leo's father and Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate.
• Andy Mientus as Jackson, a fellow cancer patient from April and Leo's cancer support group.
• Aurora Perrineau as Margo, Brenna's film club advisor, whom she briefly got romantically involved with
• Parker Mack as Finn Madill, a cancer patient who attends Brenna's new public school. Unbeknownst to the two of them, Brenna happens to also be Finn's bone marrow donor.
• Vondie Curtis-Hall as Lawrence, April and Danny's boss at The Boston Post.
• Tom Irwin as Thomas Carver, April, Brenna and Natalie's father and George's brother. Known to the world as a famous novelist, his personal life remains a mystery that his daughters are trying to sort through.
• Stephen Schneider as Aaron Phillips, April and Danny's boss at The Boston Post, who replaced Lawrence.
• Bob Gebert as Dr. Stibler, Leo's doctor.

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