Grey's Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo has suggested that she will quit acting when the medical drama comes to an end.
The actress - who has played Meredith Grey for ten seasons - said at a BuzzFeed panel that she doesn't have a "strong desire" to continue acting.
She has started to work more as a producer, and recently commissioned a new ABC Family series based on the novel Debt.
"I definitely feel myself transitioning," she said. "I don't find acting terribly empowering. For the place I am in my life . . . I don't necessarily want to work for other people."
Asked if she was confirming her retirement, she replied: "I mean, never say never, I'm not going to come out and make one of those statements like, 'I'm retiring', and then in February come back.
"I try to keep an open heart, an open mind, an open soul and spirit to whatever comes my way, and whatever is meant to be for me will be."
She added that she doesn't feel like she has "anything to prove" when it comes to acting.
"Grey's is in 97 countries or something and we've had this blessing of all these wonderful fans who still love us 10 years later," she said. "I feel like I did it and I don't have anything left to prove, and I'd like to try to challenge myself.
"I'd like to see if I can be something different and be successful at something different. I feel like I'm very successful at acting.
"For my journey, I feel like, 'OK, I did the absolute top of what I could do in television, and I'd like to try a new sport and see if I'm any good at something else'."
