Patrick Ball Shares Excitement for Girlfriend Elysia Roorbach’s First TV Appearance on The Pitt: ‘She Did Great’

Elysia Roorbach (left) and Patrick Ball on ‘The Pitt’.
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Need to Know

• Patrick Ball praised his girlfriend Elysia Roorbach after her television debut on The Pitt season 2.
• Ball, who portrays Dr. Frank Langdon, shared the screen with Roorbach during the January 15 episode.
• The couple met while working on a stage production of Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard in Miami and began dating in October 2023.

In a show of support, Patrick Ball acknowledged his girlfriend Elysia Roorbach’s television debut in an Instagram post following the airing of The Pitt. The medical drama episode, which aired January 15, featured Roorbach alongside Ball, who plays Dr. Frank Langdon.

The duo shared a memorable scene in which Langdon triaged Roorbach’s character, a patient who accidentally glued her eye shut while applying false eyelashes. Shortly after the episode was released, Ball celebrated Roorbach’s performance on Instagram, reposting highlights from her appearance.

“So so honored to get to play with [Elysia] again in her TV DEBUT!!” Ball, 36, expressed in his tribute. “Even if she didn’t want anything to do with me. Boo killed it.”

Patrick Ball on Instagram.

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Ball previously mentioned in an interview that Roorbach’s involvement in the series was not facilitated by him. “She auditioned the old-fashioned way and got the job, and it was a real dream come true.” He described working together again as a return to playing pretend, saying, “I get to be her doctor, and [her character] wanted nothing to do with me, and that also felt right.”

The couple first crossed paths while performing in Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard and recently celebrated their two-year anniversary. Roorbach marked the occasion on Instagram by sharing fond memories from their hikes, captioning the post, “Doing some walking and jumping around in the woods to celebrate 2 amaze years of walking and jumping around in many different woods together 🧡 love you so Patty.”

Elysia Roorbach on ‘The Pitt’.

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The Pitt also features another real-life couple; Shawn Hatosy, who plays Dr. Jack Abbot, is married to Kelly Albanese, who appears in the second season as patient Reina Burgess. The second season of The Pitt is currently airing on HBO Max.