Season 12 of 'Chicago Fire' Is "Heating Up"! But Where Is Donna?

Donna Robbins hasn’t been observed on ‘Chicago Fire’ since Season 9. Despite teases of her return, it is Season 12 and fans are still ready.

Feb. 14 2024, Published 10:10 p.m. ET

Spoiler alert: This article contains minor spoilers for Season 12, Episode Four of Chicago Fire.

As Season 12 of Chicago Fire is underway, we will’t help however keep in mind all of the characters we’ve met along the way. Since 2012, Dick Wolf’s premiere One Chicago collection has saved us aboard the franchise with a “burning” passion. But one of the vital enthusiasts in the sequence haven’t been as strong as they once had been, corresponding to Donna and Chief Wallace Boden.

Donna and Boden married at the finish of Season 2 of Chicago Fire, but via Season 9, Melissa Ponzio, who performed Donna, stopped making regular appearances. Now that Boden’s ex-wife Shonda has gave the impression in Season 12, fans are frightened about what happened to Donna and if she and the Chief are still married.

What happened to Donna on ‘Chicago Fire’? She hasn’t gave the impression since Season 9.

Observant fans noticed one thing was once up with Donna when she stopped showing in Chicago Fire. Season 10 was once the primary season Melissa didn't make even one episode appearance and her absence didn’t pass ignored. In truth, fans ignored her such a lot that executive producer Derek Haas teased her go back in September 2022 to TV Insider.

“You’re going to get to see some faces that you haven’t seen in some time,” he instructed the outlet of the then-upcoming Season 11, “which is Boden’s son, Terrence, it’s been a few years at least since we had a Terrence look. So he’s back and we’ll see our usuals: Cindy [Robyn Coffin] and Donna [Melissa Ponzio] … All the 51 spouses sooner or later.”

Despite Derek’s affirmation, Donna didn’t seem in Season 11, which leaves us wondering if one thing more happened to her. It’s in all probability that no matter scene or storyline she was once a part of was reduce in the enhancing room or that she had filming conflicts and just couldn’t get to the set for no matter her return was meant to be. It’s even imaginable that the 2023 writers or actors strike affected Donna’s storyline.

Chief Boden remains to be married to Donna, in spite of Shonda’s go back to ‘Chicago Fire.’

While we know that Boden and Donna are utterly endgame, the Chief used to be married to a woman named Shonda (Shanesia Davis) prior to he met Donna. Shonda’s son, Jimmy, was once like an actual son to Boden even though he was once in point of fact his stepson. When Jimmy comes to Boden for lend a hand in Season 12, Episode 4, after Shonda is put in jail, Shonda’s confession of the crime creates a rift between Jimmy and Boden.

The most likely reason behind Donna’s absence is just that Melissa has been quite busy. She performed the mom, Melissa McCall, in Teen Wolf, and in 2023, Paramount Plus solid her in their reboot film, Teen Wolf: The Movie. She additionally played Ms. Idle in Popular Theory, Carolyn in The Girl from Plainville, and Debra Simon in Die Hart. So most likely if Melissa’s time table cools down, we’ll in the end see Donna and Boden’s happy life in combination.

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