The Doctor Is In

JUST TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, ITO AGHAYERE WAS making her Broadway debut in Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Ayad Akhtar’s Junk, playing a financial shark killing it in a man’s world. Now, as Dr. Maya Jacobs, the no-nonsense chief resident on the hit sitcom Carol’s Second Act, the Canadian-born actress is barking orders at Patricia Heaton’s late-in-life doctor.

“It’s been a joyride to play Dr. Jacobs, partly because