Carina DeLuca is an OB/GYN attending and Andrew DeLuca's sister who's currently researching the female orgasm at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and the ex-girlfriend of Arizona Robbins.
History
Early Life
While her mother moved to the United States with her little brother, Carina stayed in Italy with their father.[1]
After he and Sam Bello broke up the first time, Andrew spent three weeks on her couch. ("Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story")
Research
When Carina learned that her brother was working for a female Chief of Surgery, she came to Seattle to meet with Miranda Bailey about doing her research at Grey Sloan Memorial. She talked with Bailey and got permission to use the hospital's MRI to take pictures of women's brains before, during, and after orgasm.
Amelia offered to participate in the study and her MRI showed a brain tumor. ("Get Off on the Pain")
Helping Arizona's Patient
When Carina learned that Arizona had a patient who was having a difficult, slow labor and couldn't use any medical means to hasten her labor, she suggested clitoral stimulation to provide natural pain relief and speed up her labor. Despite her initial reservations, Arizona suggested it to her patient and with her husband's assistance, labor quickly progressed. ("Go Big or Go Home")
Amelia's Surgery
While watching Amelia's surgery with Arizona, Carina was delighted that Amelia's tumor had been discovered because of masturbation, saying God works in mysterious ways. ("Ain't That a Kick in the Head")
Intern Mixer
As they were bonding over strange objects they have pulled from people's bodies, Richard invited her to the intern mixer and she happily accepted the invitation. At the mixer, she got acquainted with Owen, who mistook her for an intern. She clarified she was a visiting doctor and that her specialty was orgasms. This sparked his interest and after some flirting, they ended up kissing in a hallway. ("Come on Down to My Boat, Baby")
Peggy Knox
Peggy and her wife came into the hospital when Peggy panicked during their planned home birth. When the power went out for a moment, Peggy panicked again and tried to leave for another hospital, but Arizona determined that her baby's head was already out and then coached her as Carina delivered the baby in the hallway. ("Out of Nowhere")
Carina later told Arizona that Peggy was healing and happily in love with her new daughter. ("1-800-799-7233")
David Roman
When a psych consult for a patient who tried to cut off his hand because he was masturbating and believed it was sinful was delayed, they asked Carina to step in and talk to him because it was her area of expertise. She told him that God made sex pleasurable beyond procreation for a reason. She also admitted that she does it and wasn't ashamed of that. When he developed an erection, he covered himself with a pillow and demanded that she leave immediately, which she did. ("Personal Jesus")
Surgical Project
After a conversation with Carina about maternal mortality, Arizona was inspired to look into it and learned that the US has a much higher rate of death for new mothers than Italy. She wanted to study why this happened and how they could prevent it. After writing a proposal, Arizona went to Carina and asked if they could work together. In addition to that, they rekindled their romance. ("Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger")
Carina went to Kate Lachman to get access to the patient files, but due to a misunderstanding, Kate declined. When Arizona stepped in, she gave them access. The research showed a climbing rate of c-sections, starting when Kate started working at the hospital. She encouraged Arizona to tell Kate about it, which Arizona did, offending Kate. ("Games People Play")
Their research continued and Carina believed it was making Arizona more paranoid when she demanded every possible tool they need be nearby when Lanie was delivering her baby, despite a lack of complications. After the baby was born, Carina told Arizona that everything had gone well, but when another new mother suddenly hemorrhaged, Arizona used a cart she'd had Levi put together and then modified to suit her needs to rush to her aid. They were able to save her life and stop the bleeding quickly. Arizona told Carina she thought their research was done. The solution was the cart, which was stocked with everything they could possibly need. ("Beautiful Dreamer")
When the time came for Arizona and Carina to present their research for consideration, she was paged away for a laboring patient and wished Arizona luck. After hearing that Arizona had accidentally distributed and consumed weed cookies, Carina offered her a ride home. ("Judgment Day")
Getting Andrew Off the Couch
When Meredith went to Arizona to try to get Andrew off her couch, where he'd spent a whole week, Arizona referred her to Carina, who had admitted to Arizona that she doesn't believe in coddling children and believed Arizona was coddling Sofia. Carina came over to Meredith's house and got Andrew up off the couch and back to work. ("Bad Reputation")
Alex and Jo's Wedding
On the day of Alex and Jo's wedding, Carina was part of the group that went to the wrong wedding. When they realized what had happened, they all rushed to get on a ferry out to Bainbridge Island. When Taryn got drunk and said she was going to confess her love to Meredith, Carina stopped her, saying love's too precious to waste it on someone who can't love you back. After the wedding planner ended up having an allergic reaction to shrimp and was sent to the hospital, the wedding party and guests then boarded a ferry, where Alex and Jo were married by Meredith. ("All of Me")
Barry Clemens
When Barry Clemens came into the ER with something stuck in his rectum, Richard paged Carina for her help in determining what the object was. With her help, they got Barry to confess on his way to surgery that he had put his wife's "hair stuff" up there. After Barry died in surgery, Richard asked for her help explaining it to his wife. ("With a Wonder and a Wild Desire")
Leaving Town
Carina told Andrew she'd probably have to leave town and go back to Italy for a bit because there were problems with their papa. ("Momma Knows Best")
Return to Seattle
Carina came back to Seattle after several months. She came to Andrew's place and revealed that she'd brought their father back with her. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
When her father pitched his research, which involved creating a gestational sac to allow premature babies to continue to live outside the uterus, Carina was reluctant to support it because of her father's untreated mental health issues. She went to Alex with her concerns, but Vincenzo's project was funded anyway. ("Blood and Water")
Carina continued to watch her father while he worked on his project. When one of the lambs died, she wanted him to stop his research, but he said she didn't know what she was talking about and dismissed her concerns. When he learned she was working on a patient who was going to lose her baby because she needed a hysterectomy and the fetus was not yet viable, he went around Carina and talked to the parents about using his gestational sac. The parents wanted to try it, but they were quickly told that it wasn't available for use yet. Instead, Carina delivered the baby and then Teddy removed her uterus. The baby was then wrapped in a blanket and given to her father, who held her while she died. Because of what he'd done, Alex decided to cut funding to Vincenzo's research, which upset him. ("And Dream of Sheep")
Treating Teddy
When Teddy started having pains, she saw Carina, who diagnosed cervical insufficiency and put her in Trendelenburg. ("Add It Up")
When Teddy went into labor, Carina came and attended her birth. ("Jump Into the Fog")
Amelia and Bailey's Pregnancies
Amelia approached Carina to ask her to be part of a threesome with her and Link. However, Carina assumed she was instead coming to her about her pregnancy, as she'd seen the changes in Amelia's body. Amelia said she wasn't pregnant, just gaining a little weight, then awkwardly tried to proposition Carina. Carina just waited while Amelia realized that she was, in fact, pregnant. ("Nothing Left to Cling To")
When Bailey started bleeding while she was at work, she went to Carina, who did an ultrasound that showed she'd lost the pregnancy. She told Bailey she just had to wait. When Ben arrived, Carina left them alone together after telling Ben she was sorry. Later that day, she did an ultrasound on Amelia, who hadn't gotten one because she was worried that what happened with Christopher would happen again. Carina assured her that everything was fine, but told her she wasn't twenty weeks pregnant as she believed, but twenty-four, injecting doubt as to the paternity. ("Let's All Go to the Bar")
Andrew's Mania
Carina became increasingly concerned when she noticed that Andrew seemed to be struggling particularly hard with Suzanne Britland. She went to Meredith with her concerns, saying Andrew was the same age as as their father when he started showing symptoms of bipolar disorder. She also pointed out past events that showed similar alternating mania and depression, which led to Meredith going to Bailey and getting Andrew taken off the case. ("A Diagnosis")
Not long after that, Carina became even more concerned when Andrew decided to walk to Seattle Pres during a blizzard to retrieve a liver for Elisa Tang. She called him every fifteen minutes while he was out. When he returned with severe frostbite, she tried to get him to understand that what he did wasn't normal or rational. He brushed off her concerns and said that his actions saved Elisa's life. ("Snowblind")
JJ's Baby
When JJ went into labor at the station during the blizzard, Maya called Carina for advice on things they could do to make her more comfortable. Carina suggested putting her in the shower with warm water to ease some of her discomfort. Later, Carina suggested that JJ masturbate to ease her pain and speed up labor., which she did happily. Soon afterward, she gave birth. ("Ice Ice Baby")
Consoling Maya
Carina and Maya continued to hook up happily. When Carina heard from Ben that Maya had had a rough day, she brought lasagna to the station for Maya. Maya said they were just hooking up and she didn't need a girlfriend, so Carina put down the lasagna and wen to leave, but Maya stopped her and apologized. She said she was broken. Carina said she's not in the habit of fixing broken people, but instead of leaving, she started kissing Maya, who said the lasagna smelled almost as good as Carina. ("Satellite of Love")
Relationships
Romantic
Arizona Robbins
Soon after arriving in Seattle, she met Arizona Robbins at a bar. She ended up going home with Arizona and the two had sex. ("Break Down the House")
Even after Andrew came home and interrupted the events, they continued. The next day, when Arizona found out that Carina was at the hospital doing research, she went to see her and Carina continued her flirting. ("Get Off on the Pain")
Arizona described the sex the two of them had as pain-relieving. ("Go Big or Go Home")
After learning that Sofia was coming back home, Arizona inadvertently broke things off with Carina. ("Come on Down to My Boat, Baby")
Arizona and Carina kiss.
After not seeing Arizona for a few days, Carina asked her if she was okay. Arizona said she'd taken a few days off after Karin Taylor's death. Arizona was shocked to learn Carina had never lost a mom, while Carina was shocked to learn Arizona had lost more than one. That inspired Arizona to look into it as a surgical project and once she had written up a proposal, she asked Carina to work on it with her, a decision they sealed with a kiss. ("Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger")
After Carina made a comment about moving countries at the drop of a hat, Arizona asked her if she was just going to leave suddenly and end their relationship. Carina said that she had no plans to leave or end their relationship. ("Beautiful Dreamer")
When Arizona decided she needed to move herself and Sofia back to New York, she ended things with Carina. ("Fight For Your Mind")
Owen Hunt
After things ended with Arizona, she met Owen at the new intern mixer. They flirted and then started kissing at the hospital. ("Come on Down to My Boat, Baby")
Things progressed from there to her making breakfast naked with him. ("Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story")
After their tryst, things were awkward between them around the hospital. ("Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger")
Maya Bishop
Maya caught Carina's eye when she ran into the ER with Scott Burke's nose. ("A Diagnosis") Later that night, they met again at the bar and introduced themselves. Carina started flirting and offered to buy Maya a drink in exchange for the story of how she ended up running a nose into the hospital. Maya tried to turn her down, but Carina asked if she was sure she didn't want to and Maya said she wasn't sure. ("Into the Woods")
They continued to hook up and Maya called Carina for help when JJ went into labor at the station. ("Ice Ice Baby") When Carina heard about Maya having a bad day at work, she brought lasagna to cheer her up. Maya snapped at her, saying she didn't need a girlfriend and they were just hooking up, shocking Carina. Maya quickly apologized and accepted the lasagna. ("Satellite of Love")
After dealing with an accident in which a drunk driver took out 9 people on motorcycles, Maya called Carina to hook up. After they hooked up, Carina tried to excuse herself to go back to work, but Maya started crying, saying she was the truck that ran into station 19 and broke up a family. Carina held her and comforted her. ("Born to Run")
Familial
She is Andrew's older sister. When he moved to the United States with their mother, she stayed behind in Italy with their father.
When their mom went to Italy to visit Carina, she called Andrew to say their mom was sick and he needed to come immediately. When he arrived, he learned his mom had died before Carina even called, but she explained that she couldn't stand the thought of him knowing their mom was dead without her being there to hug him. ("Momma Knows Best")
She cares very deeply about her brother, despite feeling he's an idiot. When she learned that his ex-girlfriend, Sam, was working at the hospital and he'd had sex with her, she reminded him of the time he spent three weeks on her couch because of Sam. ("Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story")
When ICE came for Sam at the hospital, Andrew went to Carina and ask if she had called them. She denied it, saying she wouldn't do that to Sam or to Andrew. ("Beautiful Dreamer")
Because of what happened with their mother, Andrew was worried when Carina said their papa was having problems. She assured Andrew that he wasn't dead. ("Momma Knows Best")
Career
Carina is an attending OB/GYN who is doing research on what happens to the female brain before, during, and after orgasm. She was interested in the pain-control aspect, but in order to get funding, she used the drug companies' interest in developing a female viagra.
She was officially granted privileges when OB/GYN was short-staffed and Arizona needed another OB so they would stop paging her for regular deliveries. ("Out of Nowhere")
Notes and Trivia
- She is Italian and speaks fluent Italian.[2]
- She doesn't believe in coddling children.[3]
- She had her first job at age nine, sweeping the floor of a cafe.[4]
- She once stole a lipstick from a drug store.[5]
Gallery
Episodic
Episode Stills
Appearances
| Grey's Anatomy, Season 14 | |||||
| #01 | "Break Down the House" | #09 | "1-800-799-7233" | #17 | "One Day Like This" |
| #02 | "Get Off on the Pain" | #10 | "Personal Jesus" | #18 | "Hold Back the River" |
| #03 | "Go Big or Go Home" | #11 | "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" | #19 | "Beautiful Dreamer" |
| #04 | "Ain't That a Kick in the Head" | #12 | "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" | #20 | "Judgment Day" |
| #05 | "Danger Zone" | #13 | "You Really Got a Hold on Me" | #21 | "Bad Reputation" |
| #06 | "Come on Down to My Boat, Baby" | #14 | "Games People Play" | #22 | "Fight For Your Mind" |
| #07 | "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" | #15 | "Old Scars, Future Hearts" | #23 | "Cold as Ice" |
| #08 | "Out of Nowhere" | #16 | "Caught Somewhere in Time" | #24 | "All of Me" |
| Grey's Anatomy, Season 15 | |||||
| #01 | "With a Wonder and a Wild Desire" | #10 | "Help, I'm Alive" | #19 | "Silent All These Years" |
| #02 | "Broken Together" | #11 | "The Winner Takes It All" | #20 | "The Whole Package" |
| #03 | "Gut Feeling" | #12 | "Girlfriend in a Coma" | #21 | "Good Shepherd" |
| #04 | "Momma Knows Best" | #13 | "I Walk the Line" | #22 | "Head Over High Heels" |
| #05 | "Everyday Angel" | #14 | "I Want a New Drug" | #23 | "What I Did for Love" |
| #06 | "Flowers Grow Out of My Grave" | #15 | "We Didn't Start the Fire" | #24 | "Drawn to the Blood" |
| #07 | "Anybody Have a Map?" | #16 | "Blood and Water" | #25 | "Jump Into the Fog" |
| #08 | "Blowin' in the Wind" | #17 | "And Dream of Sheep" | ||
| #09 | "Shelter from the Storm" | #18 | "Add It Up" | ||
| Grey's Anatomy, Season 16 | |||||
| #01 | "Nothing Left to Cling To" | #08 | "My Shot" | #15 | "Snowblind" |
| #02 | "Back in the Saddle" | #09 | "Let's All Go to the Bar" | #16 | "Leave a Light On" |
| #03 | "Reunited" | #10 | "Help Me Through the Night" | #17 | "Life on Mars?" |
| #04 | "It's Raining Men" | #11 | "A Hard Pill to Swallow" | #18 | "Give a Little Bit" |
| #05 | "Breathe Again" | #12 | "The Last Supper" | #19 | "Love of My Life" |
| #06 | "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard" | #13 | "Save the Last Dance for Me" | #20 | "Sing It Again" |
| #07 | "Papa Don't Preach" | #14 | "A Diagnosis" | #21 | "Put on a Happy Face" |
| Grey's Anatomy, Season 17 | |||||
| #01 | "All Tomorrow's Parties" | #07 | "Helplessly Hoping" | #13 | "Good as Hell" |
| #02 | "The Center Won't Hold" | #08 | "It's All Too Much" | #14 | "Look Up Child" |
| #03 | "My Happy Ending" | #09 | "In My Life" | #15 | "Tradition" |
| #04 | "You'll Never Walk Alone" | #10 | "Breathe" | #16 | "I'm Still Standing" |
| #05 | "Fight the Power" | #11 | "Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right" | #17 | "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" |
| #06 | "No Time for Despair" | #12 | "Sign O' the Times" | ||
| Grey's Anatomy, Season 18 | |||||
| #01 | "Here Comes the Sun" | #08 | "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" | #15 | "Put It to the Test" |
| #02 | "Some Kind of Tomorrow" | #09 | "No Time to Die" | #16 | "Should I Stay or Should I Go" |
| #03 | "Hotter Than Hell" | #10 | "Living In a House Divided" | #17 | "I'll Cover You" |
| #04 | "With a Little Help From My Friends" | #11 | "Legacy" | #18 | "Stronger Than Hate" |
| #05 | "Bottle Up and Explode!" | #12 | "The Makings of You" | #19 | "Out for Blood" |
| #06 | "Everyday Is a Holiday (With You)" | #13 | "Put the Squeeze On Me" | #20 | "You Are the Blood" |
| #07 | "Today Was a Fairytale" | #14 | "Road Trippin'" | ||
| Grey's Anatomy, Season 19 | |||||
| #01 | "Everything Has Changed" | #08 | "All Star" | #15 | "Mama Who Bore Me" |
| #02 | "Wasn't Expecting That" | #09 | "Love Don't Cost a Thing" | #16 | "Gunpowder and Lead" |
| #03 | "Let's Talk About Sex" | #10 | "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" | #17 | "Come Fly With Me" |
| #04 | "Haunted" | #11 | "Training Day" | #18 | "Ready to Run" |
| #05 | "When I Get to the Border" | #12 | "Pick Yourself Up" | #19 | "Wedding Bell Blues" |
| #06 | "Thunderstruck" | #13 | "Cowgirls Don't Cry" | #20 | "Happily Ever After?" |
| #07 | "I'll Follow the Sun" | #14 | "Shadow of Your Love" | ||
| Station 19, Season 3 | |||||
| #01 | "I Know This Bar" | #07 | "Satellite of Love" | #13 | "Dream a Little Dream of Me" |
| #02 | "Indoor Fireworks" | #08 | "Born to Run" | #14 | "The Ghosts That Haunt Me" |
| #03 | "Eulogy" | #09 | "Poor Wandering One" | #15 | "Bad Guy" |
| #04 | "House Where Nobody Lives" | #10 | "Something About What Happens When We Talk" | #16 | "Louder Than a Bomb" |
| #05 | "Into the Woods" | #11 | "No Days Off" | ||
| #06 | "Ice Ice Baby" | #12 | "I'll Be Seeing You" | ||
| Station 19, Season 4 | |||||
| #01 | "Nothing Seems the Same" | #07 | "Learning to Fly" | #13 | "I Guess I'm Floating" |
| #02 | "Wild World" | #08 | "Make No Mistake, He's Mine" | #14 | "Comfortably Numb" |
| #03 | "We Are Family" | #09 | "No One is Alone" | #15 | "Say Her Name" |
| #04 | "Don't Look Back in Anger" | #10 | "Save Yourself" | #16 | "Forever and Ever, Amen" |
| #05 | "Out of Control" | #11 | "Here It Comes Again" | ||
| #06 | "Train in Vain" | #12 | "Get Up, Stand Up" | ||
| Station 19, Season 5 | |||||
| #01 | "Phoenix from the Flame" | #07 | "A House Is Not a Home" | #13 | "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" |
| #02 | "Can't Feel My Face" | #08 | "All I Want for Christmas is You" | #14 | "Alone in the Dark" |
| #03 | "Too Darn Hot" | #09 | "Started from the Bottom" | #15 | "When the Party's Over" |
| #04 | "100% or Nothing" | #10 | "Searching for the Ghost" | #16 | "Death and the Maiden" |
| #05 | "Things We Lost in the Fire" | #11 | "The Little Things You Do Together" | #17 | "The Road You Didn't Take" |
| #06 | "Little Girl Blue" | #12 | "In My Tree" | #18 | "Crawl Out Through the Fallout" |
| Station 19, Season 6 | |||||
| #01 | "Twist and Shout" | #07 | "We Build Then We Break" | #13 | "It's All Gonna Break" |
| #02 | "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" | #08 | "I Know A Place" | #14 | "Get It All Out" |
| #03 | "Dancing With Our Hands Tied" | #09 | "Come As You Are" | #15 | "What Are You Willing to Lose" |
| #04 | "Demons" | #10 | "Even Better Than the Real Thing" | #16 | "Dirty Laundry" |
| #05 | "Pick Up The Pieces" | #11 | "Could I Leave You?" | #17 | "All These Things That I've Done" |
| #06 | "Everybody Says Don't" | #12 | "Never Gonna Give You Up" | #18 | "Glamorous Life" |
| Station 19, Season 7 | |||||
| #01 | "This Woman's Work" | #05 | "My Way" | #09 | "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" |
| #02 | "Good Grief" | #06 | "With So Little to Be Sure Of" | #10 | "One Last Time" |
| #03 | "True Colors" | #07 | "Give It All" | ||
| #04 | "Trouble Man" | #08 | "Ushers of the New World" | ||
References
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