Megan Hunt • Played by:
Dana Delany • Seasons 1–3 Megan Hunt is a brilliant
neurosurgeon until a life-changing car accident prevents her from continuing to work in the operating room. Due to minor nerve damage sustained in the car accident, she can no longer use her hands to perform the fine manipulation which is required for the successful practice of surgery. The car crash exposes weaknesses in her family life as well, since her relations with her husband and child had taken a "backseat to her ambition", according to
Time Magazine, Delany said in an interview that she loves to play "complicated characters" and her character in
Body of Proof is "complicated, smart, and definitely complex." Homicide detective. Partner of Bud Morris, full of energy and very smart. Unlike Morris, she is more friendly towards Megan and respects her for her straightforwardness and work. After seeing a grief counselor for support following Peter's death, she leaves the Philadelphia Police Force to move to Virginia to join the FBI.
Ethan Gross • Played by:
Geoffrey Arend • Seasons 1–3
Forensic Pathology Fellow. Ethan now finds himself as the youngest and most enthusiastic fellow working at the Medical Examiner's Office. Ethan partially assumes the position of Megan's Medicolegal Investigator following Peter's death.
Curtis Brumfield • Played by:
Windell Middlebrooks • Season 1–3 Deputy Chief Medical Examiner. Curtis is a capable and intelligent Medical Examiner whose bluster belies his love for his job. Though he is Megan's superior, her full-speed-ahead attitude often allows Megan to convince Curtis to do her bidding.
Lacey Fleming • Played by:
Mary Mouser • Recurring Season 1; main cast Season 2–3 Daughter of Megan and Todd, only grandchild of Joan Hunt. Lacey lives with her father Todd in the first season. In the second season, Megan and Todd share joint-custody of Lacey, so she moves back and forth between both homes. Late in the second season, she is diagnosed with
type 1 diabetes. In season 3, she decides to stay with her mother when her father moves to California.
Tommy Sullivan • Played by:
Mark Valley • Season 3 A former NYPD detective who left under mysterious circumstances, now working in the Philadelphia Homicide division. Tommy had a one-time romantic relationship with Megan that pre-dated the series. Megan alludes to their relationship being some 20 years ago.
Adam Lucas • Played by:
Elyes Gabel • Season 3 A detective in the Philadelphia Homicide division and Tommy's new partner. ==Recurring characters==