‘9-1-1’ Promotes Corinne Massiah & Elijah M. Cooper (Exclusive)

EXCLUSIVE: Following the tragic death of her beloved husband Bobby (Peter Krause), Athena Grant (Angela Bassett) will likely be leaning more on her family, including her two children, May and Harry.

Corinne Massiah, who play Athena’s eldest child, May Grant, and Elijah M. Cooper, who portrays the youngest child, Harry Grant, have been promoted to series regulars for the upcoming ninth season of ABC’s first-responder drama set in Los Angeles.

This marks a return to a series regular status for Massiah who started as a recurring in Season 1 followed by a regular stint in Seasons 2-5 before stepping back to guest star/recurring as her character attended USC while Massiah herself was a full-time student at UCLA. She graduated two months ago with a degree in sociology and will today be back on 9-1-1 full-time.

Cooper has recurred on 9-1-1 since Season 7. The character was portrayed by a different actor in a recurring capacity for Seasons 1-5. Harry was not seen in Season 6 as he went to live with his father.

Massiah and Cooper join the 9-1-1 Season 9 series regular ranks that include Bassett, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie Han, Oliver Stark as Evan “Buck” Buckley, Kenneth Choi as Howie “Chimney” Han, Aisha Hinds as Henrietta “Hen” Wilson, Ryan Guzman as Eddie Diaz and Gavin McHugh as Christopher Diaz.

Created and executive produced by Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Tim Minear, 9-1-1 explores the high-pressure experiences of first responders — including police officers, firefighters and dispatchers — who are thrust into the most frightening and shocking conditions.

The series, whose characters spent the last few episodes of Season 8 reeling from Bobby’s shocking and heroic death, is set to return for Season 9 Oct. 9 on ABC and next day on Hulu.

9-1-1, which finished the 2024-2025 broadcast season in the leading 5 shows among cross-platform adults 18-49, is produced by 20th Television in association with Ryan Murphy Television and Brad Falchuk Teley-Vision. Angela Bassett, John J. Gray, Brad Buecker and Kristen Reidel also serve as executive producers. Minear is the showrunner.

Massiah portrayed Young Amanda in ABC’s Secrets and Lies, Young Ginny in Fox’s Pitch and Lucy Malloy in ABC’s Mistresses. She is repped by Entertainment 360 and Skrzyniarz & Mellean.

That mami Lay Lay alum Cooper recently starred in Season 2 of Hulu and Disney+’s anthology series Goosebumps and joined the CW’s All American as recurring and was seen in the coming-of-age movie Almost Popular. He is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency and LBI Entertainment.