Combat Hospital is new drama set in 2006 at the only military hospital providing advanced surgical care in all of Southern Afghanistan, and charts the frantic lives of the hospital’s resident doctors and nurses from Canada, America, the U.K. and other allied countries. A Role 3 Medical Unit is the highest level of care available in Kandahar, with facilities for emergency surgery and intensive care. The Role 3 hospital is improvised quarters: a jumble of tents, temporary buildings made of plywood and duct tape, even repurposed shipping containers that line the unit as its protective outer walls. Within these walls an international team of doctors, nurses and medics deliver the best battlefield surgical care anywhere to wounded soldiers, civilians caught in the crossfire, even the enemy. This highly-charged series follows the characters as they navigate through the relentless life-and-death battles on the operating table and the never-ending conflicts that arise from working in a war zone military hospital.

Combat Hospital features a diverse ensemble cast including: Elias Koteas (“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”) as Colonel Marks; Michelle Borth (“Hawaii Five-0”) as Canadian surgeon Dr. Rebecca Gordon; Luke Mably (“The Gates”) as British neurosurgeon Dr. Simon Hill; Deborah Kara Unger (“The Hurricane”) as Australian army psychiatrist Major Ada Pedersen; Terry Chen (“Sanctuary”) as trauma team leader Captain Bobby Trang; and Arnold Pinnock (“The Listener”) as Commander Will Royal, Chief of Nursing.

Captain Bobby Trang, of the US Army, is a General Practice Doctor and Trauma Team Leader at the Role 3 Hospital. Thrown in the deep end as a new recruit along with Major Rebecca Gordon, Bobby is a little less confident in his own abilities, which just might be his saving grace. Amongst all the headstrong personalities, Bobby is a gentle soul. He arrived on the base the same day as Rebecca and they soon become best friends and confidants.

The series was shot on an expansive 185,000 square foot (17,187 square meters) indoor and outdoor set recently constructed in Toronto. It is one of the largest standing sets ever built for a Canadian original production and is modelled after the real Canadian-lead NATO Role 3 Hospital at Kandahar Airfield. The set is a meticulous re-creation of a portion of the hospital compound and the vast Kandahar Airfield, including the helicopter landing zone, boardwalk area and barracks, which housed over 15,000 military and civilian personnel.

More about Terry Chen
Terry Chen’s Hollywood debut as Rolling Stone’s editor Ben Fong Torres in Cameron Crowe’s Academy Award®-nominated film Almost Famous has garnered praise from the likes of Variety magazine to Ebert & Roeper at the Movies. The intensity, commitment and strong natural talent he displayed helped launch an impressive career that continues to showcase Terry’s range and versatility as an actor.

From a starring role opposite Billy Zane and Academy Award-nominee Dennis Hopper in Mem-o-re, to working with Samuel L. Jackson in Snakes on a Plane, the Alberta-born actor has amassed over 50 film and television projects to date. After wrapping up his Supporting Lead role opposite Jessica Biel in the The A-Team, Terry has guest starred on various television series such as V, and Psych, as well as pilots Befriend & Betray, and Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. He can also be seen in two SyFy projects: in Riverworld, he plays a WWI Chinese American fighter pilot caught in a surreal world of purgatory, and in Sanctuary, he plays an evil scientist battling wits with an elite team of monster hunters. Terry was also reunited with director Ernie Barbarash to film the sci-fi action thriller Hardwired, with Val Kilmer and Academy Award-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. Barbarash first cast Terry opposite Jaime King (Sin City) in the horror feature They Wait in which Terry plays a man whose family is threatened by a haunting. Another high profile project in which Terry was seen as a devoted family man was War with Hong Kong action star Jet Li and Jason Statham.

In Canada, Terry is well-known as an artist who values community and collaboration. It was Terry’s work in CBC’s long running, critically acclaimed television series Da Vinci’s Inquest which led the show’s head writer and director Chris Haddock to cast Chen in his award-winning feature The Life, a film which showcases the poverty and drug abuse rampant in Vancouver’s downtown east side.