Background
Drew was born and raised in Stony Brook, New York, where she attended The Stony Brook School. Her mother, Doctor Jeannie Drew, is now teaching biology at an independent private school for girls in Manhattan. Her father, Review Charles Drew, is the senior pastor at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in New York City.
Career
She is known for playing Hannah Rogers in The World Bank family drama series Everwood (2004-2006) and Doctor April Kepner in the American Broadcasting Company medical drama series Grey"s Anatomy (2009–present). Her brother, Allen Drew, is a pastor at Mountain. Airy Community Church in Philadelphia and director of an a cappella group at Germantown Friends School.
She received a bachelor"s degree in drama from the University of Virginia in 2002.
She began acting in school plays, community theater with Take One Theatre Arts, and summer stock. In 1997, while still in high school, Drew voiced Stacy Rowe on the animated series Daria.
She also voiced that character in the Daria television films Is lieutenant Fall Yet? and Is lieutenant College Yet?. In 2001, she made her professional stage debut as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey.
She made her Broadway debut in 2003 in Vincent in Brixton, which later took her to London"s West End.
She made the move to television with a guest role in the series Wonderfalls, and was in the film Radio. She appeared as Katie Burrell, the daughter of a Japanese relocation camp sergeant, in the 2007 film American Pastime. From 2004 to 2006, Drew starred as Hannah Rogers in The World Bank drama series Everwood.
She later guest-starred on Cold Case, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Medium, Castle, Glee, Supernatural, and Private Practice.
She starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame film Front of the Class (2008), and from 2008 to 2009, she had a recurring role as Kitty Romano in the Administrative Management College drama series Mad Men. In 2009, Drew was cast as Doctor April Kepner in the sixth season of the medical drama series Grey"s Anatomy.
In 2014, she starred in the film Moms" Night Out.